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 Full details of the Sileni Estates Culinary School classes can be found here or on our website. The Annual Subscription for all 12 classes is $780. To reserve your place or for further information contact Sileni Estates Restaurant and Conference Manager Catriona Morgan on (06) 879 4836, via email or use our online booking form here. Get in quick because these classes often sell out! SILENI PEOPLE |
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Over the last couple of years as our vineyards have begun to reach maturity we have started to produce small volumes of exceptional quality. These interesting parcels of wine reflect the particular flavours and styles that we can achieve from the best vineyard sites. For us it is all about producing unique wines with depth of flavour and fruit ripeness that become stand out or benchmark wines for New Zealand.
Some of the parcels are given single vineyards names that are appropriate for their vineyard or region of origin, but more often in the future we will be using the Benchmark Block primary title as part of a series from Sileni that is clearly recognisable to consumers. These wines may not be produced in every vintage and their style may not always be mainstream, but they will be consistently high quality and often a pointer to where we believe wine styles may evolve over time. They will always be food-friendly, with an emphasis on balance and sophistication.
The following wines are four of the best from Sileni's Single Vineyard and Benchmark Block range. Enjoy!
Grant Edmonds CHIEF WINEMAKER
The fruit was sourced from two north facing hills in the Omaka Valley. A ripe Marlborough style with subtle aromatics and rich flavours of stonefruit/passionfruit on the palate. It is ripe and full with excellent fruit concentration and a long, beautifully balanced finish. This wine has just won GOLD at the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards 2009.
A very ripe Marlborough style, this wine has concentrated flavours of nectarine and tropical fruit. The palate is rich and mouth filling with good fruit concentration and a lingering finish. Bob Campbell has given this wine 4 STARS and says, "Attractive wine with delicately lifted aromatics and very good weight. The flavours are on the grassier side of the ripeness equation with a distinctly Sancerre-like character. A class act."
A classic warm region style, this wine has concentrated flavours of white peach, citrus and passionfruit. The palate is mouth filling and ripe with a long finish. Perfect served lightly chilled as an aperitif or to accompany white meats and seafood like oysters and crayfish.
Rich black plum and spice characters with soft, supple tannins, this single vineyard wine is from the Demak Brae block in the Triangle sub-region of Hawke's Bay. Soils are a thin layer of silt loam over "Redmetal" gravels - warm, free draining and excellent for red wine production. Enjoy up to eight years from vintage.
SPECIAL OFFERS FROM THE SILENI CELLAR STORE
We are really excited about our Single Vineyard and Benchmark Block wines and are pleased to be able to offer Sileni e-newsletter recipients and visitors to the Cellar Store the following special offers:
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Sileni The Peak
Syrah 2007
RRP $34.95 Special Price $25.00
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These offers are strictly for a limited time only!
WHAT'S ON THE MENU AT THE SILENI RESTAURANT 
The Sileni Restaurant is open 7 days for lunch from 11am and we have launched a new autumn menu featuring scrumptious dishes including:
Pork Loin on the bone with parsnip and apple puree, roasted figs and finished with fig vincotto - a perfect match for the Sileni 'The Lodge' Chardonnay.
The Restaurant team are busy with the final weddings and events of the summer and are gearing up for the on-coming Culinary School season. But of course are available to discuss any mid-year events, meetings, private culinary classes or conferences you have in mind. Contact Sileni Restaurant and Conference Manager Catriona Morgan on (06) 879 4836 or via email.
Take a look here to see the full Restaurant Autumn menu. To make a reservation call (06) 879 4831, send us an email or use our online booking/enquiry form here.
WINE FUNDRAISERS - SILENI ESTATES GIVES BACK
In recent years we have been increasingly approached to assist in many fundraising ventures for the local, and not so local, community. We are always keen to assist and in the tough economic times we have put our thinking caps on and come up with a solution to assist as many as possible.
Sileni Estates is now offering groups the opportunity to run wine fundraisers. Perfect for schools, sports teams and groups who need to raise funds for events, trips, new ventures or even just for everyday expenses. Sileni wine fundraisers are the perfect solution to an often daunting task. We offer a fantastic range of Sileni wines at very competitive prices for fundraising groups to sell to friends, family and the wider community. For every case of wine sold we guarantee a return of $40.00 (inc GST) to go towards the fundraising project.
We have had great success with offers to date, with a variety of groups running fundraisers, including High Schools (for language and sports trips), a Kindergarten (for general fundraising) and numerous sports teams (for travel costs to compete in overseas competitions). We have had fantastic feedback from these fundraising initiatives with the majority of groups raising in excess of $5,000! Here's what some of the groups have said and how much they raised:
"We are really pleased - this is a great fundraiser and we are extremely appreciative of the support from Sileni"
Onslow College Rowing Team - $5,746 raised
"Just wanted to say thank you again for the fantastic fundraising opportunity which Sileni have provided. Having to raise $5,000 per swimmer was a daunting task but the wine has covered a reasonable amount of the funds required."
Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Team, Wellington - $5,180 raised
"Our fundraiser has been a success and it has been a pleasure to deal with Sileni Estates. This is such a good deal. I hope you get a lot of support."
Northland Kindergarten - $2,124 raised
"We used the Sileni Fundraiser for our History and French study tour to Europe. It was a great success, with some students generating enough funds to pay for half their trip! The wine was also very well received by the wine-drinking fraternity in Wellington and was used by corporates and parents alike. We would definitely recommend it as a profitable and well managed exercise."
Wellington College - $33,086 raised
If you are interested in obtaining further information about Sileni Wine Fundraisers please contact Mel Wallis, Direct Sales Coordinator on (06) 879 8768 or via email.
WHAT'S ON
Easter Chocolate Festival
With 2009 whizzing by, it is almost Easter already and we have a special treat for you in our Cellar Store. From Good Friday to Easter Monday we will have delicious Sileni Chocolate and Wine Match tastings and Village Press olive oil tastings. Virginia from Wild Appetite will also be in the Sileni Cellar Door from 11am to 3pm on Saturday 11th April offering tastings of her delicious savoury and sweet sauces and jellies.
With 2009 whizzing by, it is almost Easter already and we have a special treat for you in our Cellar Store. From Good Friday to Easter Monday we will have delicious Sileni Chocolate and Wine Match tastings and Village Press olive oil tastings. Virginia from Wild Appetite will also be in the Sileni Cellar Door from 11am to 3pm on Saturday 11th April offering tastings of her delicious savoury and sweet sauces and jellies.
We stock a full range of Silky Oak chocolates including their decadent and addictive Marshmallow Easter Eggs. So come in and see Anne and her team for some delicious chocolatey treats this Easter weekend!
Tap Project
Sileni is involved again this year with the UNICEF New Zealand Tap Project. This is a fantastic initiative that will help UNICEF provide clean water to children around the world. When dining in the Sileni Restaurant we will be inviting you to make an optional donation $1 or more for the tap water you normally enjoy for free. The Tap Project is taking place across New Zealand from 9th March to 9th April. Funds raised by the Tap Project will go to support UNICEF water and sanitisation programmes, providing safe water for families in need.
Hawke's Bay Events
What a fantastic, event filled summer it has been. Highlights were certainly Harvest Hawke's Bay weekend with glorious weather, and a record 36 wineries participating, and the 21st birthday of the Art Deco Weekend with thousands of people dressing up and getting into the art deco spirit. Although summer is nearly over there is still a lot coming up in Hawke's Bay:
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| 1st - 13th | "Spirits in Stone" Birdwoods Gallery Sculpture Exhibition at Sileni Estates |
| 8th | Sileni Culinary School - An Easter Banquet |
| 10th - 13th | Sileni Easter Chocolate Festival, Sileni Estates |
| 10th - 13th | Hawke's Bay Volkswagon Nationals - various locations in Hawke's Bay |
| 18th - 19th | Gourmet Experience - Pettigrew Green Arena |
| 24th | Creative Hawke's Bay Art Invitational - Hastings Art Gallery |
| 30th | Sileni Culinary School - Wild at Heart |
| MAY | |
| 21st | Sileni Culinary School - Pasta, Pasta, Pasta |
| 21st | Pink Floyd Experience - 8.00pm at the Municipal Theatre, Napier |
| 22nd - 24th | Dunkerleys Great NZ Craft Show - Centennial Hall, McLean Park, Napier |
| 30th | Annual Matariki Dinner - Matariki Winery, Hastings |
| JUNE | |
| 11th | Sileni Culinary School - The Store Cupboard Chef |
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