Cooden Cellars is an independent wine merchant established by Colin Barnes and Ian Jarman in 1997. In May 2001 we opened our retail shop in the Grand Hotel Buildings, Compton Street, Eastbourne. They were awarded Independent Merchant of the Year 2007 as well as Regional Wine Merchant of the Year in the IWC Awards for the last three years, in 2003 and 2004 as runner-up and in 2005 outright.
For those not lucky enough to live within the bounds of Eastbourne they maintain a very functional and informative website. Registered users can login and leave their own tasting notes. The only thing that is lacking are images of the wine bottles (perhaps they should engage this budding photographer?)
The range is excellent across the board – lots of interesting wines from Argentina and Australia, New Zealand and Portugal are particularly interesting with several wines we are yet to discover. Regular offers, a regularly updated blog section and a decent range of spirits plus a regular payment wine club complete the picture. Perhaps the perfect wine merchant?
[...] little chat with John Martin of that wondeful little wine merchant, Cooden Cellars, hanging out down Eastbourne [...]
I am interested in doing a basic wine tasting course to give me an idea of grape varieties, wines and matching food with wine. I wondered if you had any info that would meet my needs! Thanks, Nikki
I bought some wine from you !!, was:
La Croix des Cabustines Syrah
not expensive but as I like it wonder if you still stock it.
Hope you are well.
godfrey mallett (newcastle and sometimes brighton)