Category: Press

The Drinks Business reports that the Coates & Seely 2009 Vintage Blanc de Blancs ‘La Perfide’ has been crowned ‘Supreme Champion’ in the 2017 UK Wine Awards and quotes Oz Clarke, one of the competition’s two Co-Chairs, as saying, “ Isn’t it brilliant that a producer as long established as Coates & Seely has shown the ongoing excellence of its wines. Hampshire terroir at its finest…”

The Guardian hails the “fabulously elegant” Coates & Seely vintage sparkling wines (‘Les Perfides’) which are served in five of the UK’s Royal Palaces and in Paris’ famous George V Hotel and which have just “been crowned the best tasting in the UK after beating 300 English and Welsh rivals.”

Williams refers to Coates & Seely as one of the ‘classiest English fizz producers around. With chardonnay leading the classic non-vintage blend, it has a luminous, elegant, graceful style.’

Williams chooses Coates & Seely’s Brut Reserve NV as one of the best English Wines he has tried.

Recognition of the quality of England’s sparkling wine is spreading globally. Christine Sismondo describes how ‘it’s a distinct-tasting wine that expresses a unique terroir.’

Sismondo writes, ‘Coates & Seely’s gold-medal-winning Brut Reserve, for example, the first English fizz to hit Canada, has a very fine, subtle bubble that helps bring out the toast and lemon flavours of this distinctly rich and creamy wine.’

Coates & Seely now has distribution contracts in 10 countries worldwide.

Tom Harrow brings high-rollers to Coates & Seely to taste one of the first bottles ever opened of the 2009 Rose ‘La Perfide’, the “UK’s most exclusive and expensive pink”.

Having sabraged the bottle with a first world war sword, he comments on the wine’s combination of “elegance and deftness with an opulence and intensity” before the wine, and the poetry, take over : “ a palate of wild cherries, cranberries and hedgerow strawberries, some pain grille and wild herb notes and a vivifying autolytic spicy tang”.

Writing in the Telegraph, Victoria Moore praised Coates & Seely’s two new Vintage wines, ‘Les Perfides’.

She described the Blanc de Blancs as ‘the triumph of this new pair – intensely toasty with a lemon and green apple sharpness quickening through it.’

Moore continued that ‘for sparkling rosé I prefer the Coates & Seely simple NV, an incredibly pale, pretty pink that smells of wild strawberries and has an understated, earthy, savour and gentle floral scent. Perfect heatwave drinking, actually.’