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UPCOMING & CURRENT EVENTS

Harvest Hawke's Bay 2010

Harvest Hawke's Bay this year will be at one central location in the heart of the Gimblett Gravels at Roy’s Hill on Saturday, 30 January.  

Savour our award winning Clearview Estate wines along with the wines from other top Hawke’s Bay wineries. 

Match your glass of wine to the delicious array of sublime food and groove along with the outstanding entertainment from Nairobi Trio and Give it a Girl featuring Annie Crummer, Shona Laing, Debbie Harwood, Sharon O’Neil and Gala Harwood.

Join us at our Wine & Food Matching Workshop as our Head Chef, Kerry MacKay along with our winemaker Tim Turvey join forces to present Clearview Estate’s renowned Chardonnay, Black Reef Blush, and the infamous Sea Red dessert wine with a taste of exquisitely prepared hors d’oeuvres.  During the workshop Kerry and Tim will share with you their knowledge of and passion for the art of food and wine matching.
Cost: $45 per person

BOOK NOW!
0800 4 TICKET
www.ticketdirect.co.nz (0800 224 224)
www.harvesthawkesbay.co.nz
0800 4 HB WINE (0800 4 42 9463)

SUNDAY AT THE WINERY IN TE AWANGA

11am-1pm “Create your Enigma”. Join our winemakers Tim Turvey and Barry Riwai in this exciting hands-on learning workshop – learn about our Bordeaux style reds and create the best blend for our 2009 Enigma. $110 pp including lunch & a bottle of the best blend – numbers are limited, so call us to book your place.

Helma and Kelly invite you to visit our iconic restaurant and cellar door between 10am – 5pm, for food, wine and coffee.
A la carte dining and express menu options – booking is recommended.

CURRENT EXHIBITING ARTIST AT CLEARVIEW ESTATE

Students of the Evelyn Thompson Art Studio

Evelyn Thomson started painting professionally 14 years ago. She discovered the joy of art at night school and attended the Nancy Tichborne course in Advanced Art in 1997.

Evelyn opened her own gallery in Taradale and started teaching art classes in watercolour in 2006 (Thursday nights from 6:30 to 8:30 and Friday mornings from 9:00 to 12:00).

Evelyn derives the most pleasure painting flowers but has recently diversified into landscape scenes.

This exhibition features a few pieces from Evelyn’s collection and several of her student’s works.

Exhibiting until 15 January 2010.

Midlands Hawke's Bay Charity Wine Auction 2009

2009 Auction

The 2009 Midlands Hawke's Bay Charity Wine Auction will be held at the Assembly Room of Hawke's Bay Opera House on 31st May, 2009.  

Our entry for the 2009 auction is:

An exclusively created ¼ barrique of Bordeaux style wine.

With the assistance of Clearview’s award winning winemakers the winning bidder will create their own Bordeaux style blended wine. The winner will have the choice of premium Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Cabernet Franc wines from the great 2008 vintage.

The successful bidder will receive instruction and guidance from our winemakers at their own private wine blending workshop and will then have the opportunity to blend their own red wine using the four main Bordeaux grape varieties. The winner's own ¼ barrique (56 litres) will then be blended to their specifications, bottled and labelled for delivery prior to Christmas 2009.

HOT RED HAWKE’S BAY 7 - 9 July 2009

“We're coming to you!”

Each year Tim and a number of other Hot Red Hawke’s Bay winemakers travel to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, spreading the word about Hawke’s Bay’s fabulous red wines.

Combining new world fruit flavours with old world structure, Hawke’s Bay’s red wines are unique in their style and are renowned world-wide. The Hawke’s Bay region has the largest plantings in New Zealand of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, so is arguably the red wine centre of the
country!

There will be over 20 Hot Red Hawke’s Bay winemakers with over 100 top red wines in one place at the same time! By attending you get to meet the winemakers and sample premium red wines with them.

Tickets to HOT RED Hawke’s Bay cost $35 for free tasting of all wines & a wine glass to keep; for further info visit www.winehawkesbay.co.nz PH 06 8763418

Christchurch Tuesday, 7th July
Christchurch town hall

Wellington Wednesday, 8th July

The Duxton Hotel, Wakefield Street

Auckland Thursday, 9th July

Heritage hotel, Hobson St

RECENT EVENTS at CLEARVIEW

THE HB ART INVITATIONAL 2009 

The Hawkes Bay Art Invitational is an annual autumn black tie event that showcases contemporary artist’s association with the Bay. The excellent work from both emerging and established artists is a fundraiser for the Art Gallery’s winter lecture series and a fine showcase of the region’s talent.

The Clearview restaurant closed on Friday 24th April, our chefs, waitstaff and senior staff arrived at the Hastings City Art Gallery with enough food and wine for 200 people.  With just under an hour until the crowd turned up, the crew managed to set up a mobile kitchen, bbq and a wine stand and enjoy a very quick preview of the art work on display before running to their respective work stations.

The artists turned up first, like nervous mums and dads at their first child’s teacher-parent conference, tweaking at their sculptures and triple-checking the lighting over their paintings. Some grabbed the chance at a quick glass of wine before the guests arrived, and took their positions in the gallery.

The guests, all decked out in their finest, seemed to arrive at once, and the evening was in full swing before we knew it. Plenty of warm hugs, air kisses and laughter filled the room as old friends greeted and introductions were made. The wine flowed and the canapés followed in quick succession, and the waitresses had to start devising new strategies to get the food to different parts of the room before their trays were pounced upon (amazing how quickly people learn what door food appears from).

The two hours seemed to fly by, the auction of commissions ended successfully and every morsel of food was devoured. The suggestion of ‘after parties’ seemed to hang in the air and the event ended with smiles, congratulations and promises to return with friends. The exhibition is on from the 24th April to the 31st May 2009. For more information please visit their website.

This was the first time that Clearview had fully catered the event, providing both food and wine, and we are very proud to be sponsors of this fine and enjoyable occasion.

WRITERS IN WINERIES ~ "THE TASTE OF PLEASURE" - a food & wine presentation by John Saker (CUISINE wine writer) & Catherine Bell (of DISH magazine)

Clearview was delighted to host this new event as part of the Hastings Literary Festival on march 20th. To a rapt audience of 60, John Saker & Catherine Bell presented four ‘taste’ courses each matched with Clearview wines.

It was a unique format and worked very well with great atmosphere on a balmy evening. John & Catherine gave some humorous and evocative readings relevant to the joy of food & wine, taste, smell & travel.
The dishes were superbly prepared by Kerry MacKay from Catherine’s recipes as follows:

• Grilled tuna w green olive relish & Reserve BF Sauvignon Blanc 07

• Truffle risotto w Reserve Chardonnay 07

• Rosemary & fennel roast pork w Two Pinnacles Malbec C/S 07

• Dense chocolate cake w Sea Red

Arrive at Clearview in style!

Ultimate present - a round of golf at Cape Kidnappers Golf Club then arrive at Clearview for lunch in this luxurious helicopter.  Visit Heliair for more information.

landing coordinates: 39.37.888 SOUTH  176.58.327 EAST