Clive Coates (21 October 1941 – 26 July 2022) was a British wine writer and Master of Wine, best known for his books about the wines of Burgundy.

Biography

Born in Wimbledon, London on 21 October 1941, Coates worked for The Wine Society in Stevenage in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1975 he founded the award-winning magazine The Vine, 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. 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.