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Lengs & Cooter
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The following article (with a couple of minor corrections) was written at about the time Colin Cooter & Karel Lengs launched into their partnership, and outlines the early history of Lengs & Cooter.
"Sometimes a hobby can get away from you. What starts as a part time dabbling in this or that, just grows and grows until one day it's a profession. For two South Australians, Karel Lengs, a Project Manager with Telstra, and Colin Cooter from the building trade, that's how it went.
"In the early '80s they were among a dozen or so friends who decided, after several glasses, that it mightn't be a bad idea to make their own wine. They formed an informal club called 'Bach D'Or' and got down to work. Through a network of friendships, family attachments and the like, they bought some Grenache grapes from a small grower at McLaren Vale. The Olive Hill winery lent them facilities and, amid much hilarity, a wine was made. Someone suggested they put it in an amateur wine makers' show and, much to everybody's surprise, it won a bronze medal.
