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”.