CopperLake 2008 Pinot Noir - $20 at FreshChoice and Liquorland in Golden Bay.
The light colour betrays the intense aromas and super flavours. The real surprise with this is the lashings of rich chocolate in the flavours that follow spiced cherry and liquorice aromas. Deceptively rich and a real treat that is very good value at $20.

Here’s the latest review from Neil Hodgson, Nelson Mail wine reporter on our Pinot Noir:

"CopperLake 2008 Pinot Noir - $20 at FreshChoice and Liquorland in Golden Bay.
The light colour betrays the intense aromas and super flavours. The real surprise with this is the lashings of rich chocolate in the flavours that follow spiced cherry and liquorice aromas. Deceptively rich and a real treat that is very good value at $20."

We've now had bud burst on the vines, and the new leaves are pushing out!

Spring is in full swing, and the new growth everywhere is glorious.

We've released our CopperLake 2008 Pinot Noir, and have bottled our 2009 whites.

Yes, after a lot of consideration, we've decided it's time to let someone else carry forward with the vision of CopperLake.    If you've always dreamed of owning a boutique vineyard, in beautiful Golden Bay read on...

This month we've finished netting all the grapevines, to prevent bird damage. Over the years we've observed over 70 different species of birds here, so our vines are completely netted, and then painstakingly pegged (with colourful plastic clothes pegs!) to eliminate any gaps that a bird might access.

We hope you had a wonderful New Year, and enjoyed some sun and good company with family and friends. Throughout December and January, we've been very busy in the vineyard, moving wires to accomodate the rampant growth, tucking and trimming the vines, and this last week we've done all the leaf plucking. We remove virtually all the leaves around the bunches of grapes, to provide maximum sun and air drainage. We just finished yesterday, and on Thursday we'll put the nets over the vines, to protect the crop from our abundant birdlife!
We have a bumper crop of Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir. The Viognier looks a little `patchy', which we believe is due to the incredibly cold and wet spring weather at flowering. However, final crop harvests should be well above last year.
We took our wine and olive oil to the Golden Bay A & P show on Saturday, where it was very well received, and we made good sales. The 2007 Viognier is now sold out, but we still have some Pinot Gris.

We appeared in the Nelson Mail wine column on 23 December 2008.

Neil Hodgson writes "Copper Lake 2008 Pinot Gris: This dry-style wine is elegant but packed with flavour. Rather than relying on punchy sweet, ripe fruit, this version from Copper Lake has fantastic ripe acidity to balance the multilayered pear and apple flavour. If this is a glimpse of the future, then it is bright for this new winery."  Read more ...

Copper Lake appeared in The GB Weekly on 11 December 2008, read the article by clicking here

We hope that you’ll enjoy your 'virtual visits' to CopperLake, and that one day we’ll see you here in person.

On December 11th 2008, we had our official 'launch' of the CopperLake label and wines. Many friends made the journey over Takaka Hill from Nelson for the event, and friends and people connected with the establishment of the vineyard (who have since become our friends), were also here...