CSB - Michael Cooper - Wine

Weekly wine chinwag with the Guru. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the sports field to the shearing shed. It's the
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Trying to catch up with our weekly wine chat with
Michael Cooper. Morning Michael, Good morning Brian. This week something
a little different. There are a number of wines and
wineries that are actually raising funds for worthwhile causes when
you buy their product, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
That's quite right. And we all like fish, and we
all like kiwi, we all like people. Well, I'm going
to tell you about three wineries that are putting wines
out there in the marketplace, and if we buy these wines,
we are helping to protect fish, helping to protect kiwi
and helping protect people.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
The wineries are white Haven Valley and Tailors. So there's
a range of wines called Copii Pari. They're made by
the white Haven Winery in Marlborough and they're available. Initially
they were sold through fishing clubs, but they're now available
through winery tailers more widely. And if you buy these
copirat Puri wines, you're raising funds for Legacy and Legacy

(01:25):
is an organization that is committed to restoring our insure
fisheries to abundance. So if you buy a bottle of
Copira Puri wine, and if you buy it directly from
the White Haven Winery, you can buy it just by
going online or from a shop or so if you
go directly to the winery sorry, or by buying it

(01:47):
online from the winery, then two dollars fifty from each
bottle of that money goes directly to Legacy for Insure Fisheries.
Barley which is a highly regarded wine producer down in
Central Otago. Now they're wines which I'll mention you know,
they're much higher price, but they're really seriously good wines.

(02:10):
And if you buy their wine, the Chardonnay or the pino.
Now a ten percent of the gross proceeds go to
organizations that are training dogs to protect Kiwi from predators
on Stuart Island, or other dogs that are actually picking
up early signs of cancer. Wow in people.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Wow, it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, I know that dogs can detect cancer in people
early and that they can also protect Kiwi from predators
on Stuart Island. So that's the Barley Wines. Ten percent
of gross proceeds go to those organizations training those dogs.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
And I imagine in the course of you know, a
year or two, both those wineries, white Haven or Valley,
you know, those funds would be quite substantial.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
They are indeed, in fact or a figure white Haven
sent me as to how much money they've been able
to donate over the last few years they've been raising
these funds for legacy. It's also worth mentioning, though, Brian,
that white Haven told me that once every year, and
for listeners if they go to the white Haven website

(03:19):
and just follow this through, they have a particular time,
just for a few weeks each year where all of
the all every dollar if you buy the wine at
that particular time, and the wines are about eighteen dollars
a bottle, somewhere around seventeen or eighteen dollars a bottle
up to twenty if you buy it, every single dollar

(03:43):
goes to legacy. Wow, amazing. So you'll be buying wine, say,
paying twenty dollars a bottle for it, and twenty dollars
per bottle is going to legacy.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, well done to white Haven. And the other winery
you mentioned is Taylors, who I think you're an Australian winery, aren't.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
They there are quite a lot large a family owned winery,
and there's a tailor's promised Land Chardonnay and rose. And
if you buy those wines, you're supporting Project Seahorse. And
if you look at the tailor's labels on their promised
land wines, in fact, actually on their to straight tailor's labels,
they've always got a seahorse on there. That's because in

(04:20):
their vineyard, their brief ast vineyard, when they started planting divines,
they found the remains of ancient seahorses, showing that their
vineyard site once had been underwater. So if you buy
the tailor's promis Land Chardonay and Rose, the money goes
to Project Seahorse and its mission is to save threatened

(04:41):
seahorses and also to protect marine habitats around the world.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well that's fantastic, really, I've just learned something. We learned
something every day from you. You're a wealth of knowledge, Michael. Fantastic.
Let's do it again next week, shall we? Great? Right,
I was just thinking about seahorses. Chuckys would have to
be quite small to ride, they really, wouldn't They get

(05:06):
saddles for seahorses. That's my