PHOTO: Lyse Chezeaux, 21, of Burgundy, France with Burn Cottage Vineyard manager Shane Livingstone on the first day of harvesting pinot noir grapes.
The Overseas Investment Office (OIO) has given American vineyard owners Marquis and Dianne Sauvage the green light to buy a 6.4 hectare block in Central Otago to add to their New Zealand holdings.
The Sauvages already own the 24-ha Burn Cottage vineyard in the foothills of the Pisa Range which they bought in 2002 as bare pasture, and have since converted to largely pinot noir, with a sprinkling of riesling and gruner veltliner.
Sales manager Andy Crozier said the new property on Felton Road in Cromwell was formerly known as the Sluicings Vineyard, but has been renamed the Sauvage Vineyard. It is close to leading vineyards such as Mt Difficulty and Felton Road.
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