Provenance

The Coats Family Cellar is arguably the most prestigious fine wine collection ever offered in South Africa. It contains a deep collection of the worlds finest, most sought-after wines, spanning over 150 years. Collected over many decades, the cellar was imported from Ireland to South Africa via reefer. Each bottle within the Coats Family Cellar was authenticated by Michael Egan in August 2022 and given an ID number for tracking.

Michael Egan is a world-expert in fine and rare wines with more than thirty five years of experience. He was the principal expert for the plaintiff in the two major wine counterfeiting trials in Koch v. Eric Greenberg and United States v. Rudy Kurniawan, both of which occurred in 2013.

Along with Michael Egan, the Strauss & Co Fine Wine team have tasted extensively through the cellar and are confident of the wine storage and hence quality. The entire collection is currently stored at Wine Cellar.

Critics Ratings

‘A reserved, even restrained nose is elegant, pure and cool while showing relatively little secondary character to its spicy black fruit aromas that are trimmed in just enough wood to notice. There is a lovely mouth feel to the rich, full and naturally sweet medium weight flavors blessed with fine precision and minerality on the vibrant if youthfully austere finish. Despite being close to its apogee, it seems clear that it has the balance to continue to age gracefully and should easily last another 20+ years.’ – Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, 92/100 (Aug 2022)