{{Short description|British wine writer (1941–2022)}} {{Use British English|date=July 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Clive Coates | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1941|10|21}} | birth_place = Wimbledon, London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2022|07|26|1941|10|21}} | death_place = Lyon, France | occupation = Writer | period = | genre = | subject = Wine | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.clive-coates.com}} }}
'''Clive Coates''' (21 October 1941 – 26 July 2022) was a British wine writer and Master of Wine,<ref>The Institute of Masters of Wine [https://www.mastersofwine.org/in-memoriam/clive-coates-mw Masters of Wine, Clive Coates profile] </ref> best known for his books about the wines of Burgundy.<ref name=OCW-ref>{{Cite web|website=Winepros |last= Oxford Companion to Wine|title= Reference|url= http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/reference.jsp|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080721121803/http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/reference.jsp|archivedate= 21 July 2008}}</ref>
== Biography == Born in Wimbledon, London on 21 October 1941,<ref>{{cite news |title=Clive Coates obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/clive-coates-obituary-zvt5nfns6 |access-date=9 September 2022 |work=The Times |date=9 September 2022}}</ref> Coates worked for The Wine Society in Stevenage in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="WineSoc">The Wine Society, ''Society News'', Jan/Feb 2007</ref> In 1975 he founded the award-winning magazine ''The Vine'',<ref name=OCW-vine>winepros.com.au. {{Cite web|last= Oxford Companion to Wine|title= ''The Vine''|url= http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/TheVine.jsp|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080417235130/http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/TheVine.jsp|archivedate= 17 April 2008}}</ref><ref name="CC">[http://www.clive-coates.com clive-coates.com] bio</ref> a monthly fine wine journal that ran for 241 issues until ill-health in 2005 forced him to stop. He also wrote a number of classic books about the classic wine regions of France in this time. Despite describing himself as semi retired, he published his latest book, ''The Wines of Burgundy'' in March 2008.<ref name="CC" />
Coates lived in Saint-Bonnet-de-Vieille-Vigne, between the Côte Chalonnaise and the Mâconnais. He died after a long illness at a hospital in Lyon, on 26 July 2022, at the age of 80.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2022/08/industry-veteran-clive-coates-mw-dies/|title=Burgundy expert Clive Coates MW dies|first=Eloise|last=Feilden|work=The Drinks Business|date=2 August 2022|access-date=2 August 2022}}</ref>
== Bibliography == He is best known for ''Côte d'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy'', a survey of the most famous wine-producing region of Burgundy covering more than 1000 pages, published in 1997.<ref name=wd-coa>{{Cite web|last= Kissack |first= Chris |website=The Wine Doctor |title= Wine Books: Clive Coates |url= http://www.thewinedoctor.com/otherresources/coates.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190112150114/https://www.thewinedoctor.com/otherresources/coates.shtml |archive-date= Jan 12, 2019 }}</ref> It includes technical information about the vineyards of the Côte-d'Or, details about wine making techniques employed by hundreds of different producers and wine ratings of thousands of wines. The new book from 2008 is effectively a revision of this one, but expanded to include all major wine districts of Burgundy,<!-- Maconnais is missing --> and without the in-depth profile of a selected number of producers in the 1997 book.
Other recent books include ''The Wines of Bordeaux'' (2004) and ''The Great Wines of France'' (2005).
== See also == * List of wine personalities * Coates Law of Maturity
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.clive-coates.com Clive Coates official site]
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