Juliet Harbutt
- Stories of Cheese
"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...the people who give you their food give you their heart."
Cesar Chavez - Civil rights activist [1927 – 1993]
A sentiment I share with all my heart. It is how I feel when people come to my home, whether it’s friends for dinner, a Cheese & Wine Tasting or one of my Tours. And where possible, the food I serve is seasonal, local, and produced in a fair way for all, from the picking, to the paying, to our plates.
So check out what I’m doing that might persuade you to come to Hawke’s Bay for a Baycation and even tempt you to book one of these events.
Road Less Travelled Tours
My Hunter Gatherer Classic Tours are driven and guided by me so you can sit back, relax and enjoy the best of Hawke’s Bay even the locals don’t know about. But thanks to COVID, many NZers want to drive themselves and make their own timetable?
So, I’ve put all my favourite places and people into a series of quirky, action-packed maps called the Road Less Travelled Tours.
Each Tour can be done in a day or spread over 2-3 days to take advantage of all the detours, discounts and tastings. Like a culinary and cultural adventure.
$245 for a set of maps and if there are 2 car loads then grab a second set for $125 and make it a competition! Click here for more details.
Cheese & Wine Experience
Most of us know drinking lots of wine, a lockdown hazard, doesn’t make us wine experts. But it seems most people believe eating lots of cheese more than qualifies them to be an authority on all things cheese!
If you really want to become a cheese expert and know the difference between Brie & Camembert, determine the ripe from the overripe and discover who are NZs best cheesemakers, put a group together [minimum 10] and book a class today! Click for more details
Getting Cultured
FAWC Cheese & Wine Matching with advintage
The highly respected online financial magazine Business Desk has given me a regular column where I can rant and rave about my favourite subject - cheese. My column, and others, in the LIFE section are free while their daily news items – succinct, relevant, and highly informative -you have to subscribe.
F.A.W.C. 6th - 15th November 2020
35% of tickets to the events I am hosting have already sold so if you want to have a great time out, please book ASAP events
Still Life Hawke’s Bay Sunday 8th 1100 – 1500 $65 pp
Creating, drawing, and eating a sumptuous “Still Life” feast with renowned, local artist Josh Lancaster and Black Barn wines
The Holy Trinity Wednesday 11th 1130 – 1430 $75 pp
A delicious lunch and journey of discovery, matching great wines from Trinity Hill, with artisan cheeses carefully ripened in my “cellar” plus various breads and seasonal salads
Horizontal & Vertical Tasting Wednesday 16th 1700 – 1930 $55 pp
Comparing the same cheese at different ages and the same cheese made the same way by different cheesemakers with wines from Advintage
Check the F.A.W.C website and out-of-towners, book your hotel etc. asap as 2,000 people have already booked for the Holly Hospice Trail which is 12th – 14th November.
Josh Lancaster - Kirstens Corner Hastings
World Cheese Book - what’s not to like!
Who doesn’t love cheese! So why not give the cheese lover in your life, a signed copy of my World Cheese Book $45 [RRP $55] which include a personal message from me.
It features over 750 cheeses including 15 NZ cheeses and how to create a fabulous cheeseboards etc!
Buy online using the code Cheese 2020
Keep In Touch
Stay safe and keep eating cheese during LOCKDOWN and beyond and email if you have any cheesy questions or dilemmas.
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