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

‘Truly great stuff, this wine performed at a three-digit level both in the horizontal tasting of 2005s in Baltimore, as well as in Montreal at this mini-vertical. This sensational, opaque, bluish/purple wine offers up notes of vanillin, spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry liqueur, plus a touch of licorice. The wine hits the palate with a thunderous cascade of ripe, rich, concentrated fruit. It is full-bodied, multidimensional and layered. The tannins are beautifully integrated but still present, and the wood, acidity, alcohol, etc., are all beautifully assimilated in this magnificent, majestic vintage of Angélus. It can be drunk now, but it is still an adolescent and that suggests it has at least another 25-35 years of longevity.’ - Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, 100/100 (Aug 2015)

‘The 2005 Angélus is a gorgeous wine. Inky red fruit, mocha, espresso, dried fruit and iron give this potent, explosive Saint-Emilion tons of richness. The style is dense and heavily extracted - as was the norm at the time - and yet the 2005 is impeccably balanced. This is a magnificent showing from Hubert de Broüard, who has done so much to elevate the status of this once under-achieving property.’ - Antonio Galloni, Vinous, 98/100 (Apr 2021)

'Black purple in color, with coffee, blackberry and currant on the nose. Full-bodied, with supervelvety tannins and a long aftertaste of toasty oak and ripe fruit. Very close to the 2000. Superb. Best after 2018.' - Wine Spectator, 96/100 (Mar 2008)

'Rich and jammy on the nose. Glossy and perfumed, with extravagant floral character on the palate. Hefty body – a sumo in a tutu. Lots of expensive winemaking here, with unquestionably impeccable fruit as source material.' - Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17.5/20 (Nov 2020)