The Facilities outlined in this section of the website provide a taste of what is on offer through the Food and Wine Centre of Innovation, which we believe can help you create your recipe for success.
Training Kitchens & Hospitality Suite
Laboratories
Winery & Sensory Centre
Horticultural Facilities
Information Service
Food & Wine Visitor Centre
Enjoy a taste of something different in the heart of Hawkes Bay Wine Country. The Food and Wine Visitor Centre includes a permanent exhibition on food and wine in Hawkes Bay as well as gallery space to accommodate a series of short term exhibitions.
Capable of accommodating up to 200 people, the Visitor Centre, designed by Paris Magdalenos, provides an attractive setting for functions and events.
TRAINING KITCHENS & HOSPITALITY SUITE
The EIT hospitality suite is a tremendous resource incorporating:
- Scholars Restaurant for fine dining
- Production kitchen for product development
- Spacious and well-equipped training kitchen
- Extensive inventory of bench-scale equipment
- Highly skilled and friendly technicians and lecturers.
In addition to their key role in training students, these facilities are ideal for helping develop new products. They have the flexibility to meet your specific needs, the advantages of low development costs and rapid product delivery combined with minimal risk.
A more detailed inventory of equipment that is available for use by industry is listed on the Equipment Page.
LABORATORIES
Facilities Include:
- Well-equipped and spacious chemistry and microbiology teaching laboratories, seating up to 60 people each
- Sealed instrument room for spectrophotometers, analytical balances, chromatographs and other standard equipment, to ensure a high degree of accuracy for research work and study projects
- Extensive inventory of specialist equipment
- Highly skilled and friendly technicians and lecturers.
These facilities are not accredited or intended to be used for routine testing, rather for you to measure changes in levels of key indicators during product development, when accuracy is not critical.
A more detailed inventory of equipment that is available for use by industry is listed on the Equipment Page.
WINERY AND SENSORY CENTRE
Hawkes Bay is considered by many to be New Zealands premier wine region. In recognition of this, EIT was the first tertiary institute to offer a full-time programme in grape growing and winemaking and the winerys excellent facilities offer significant scope for wine research and education. It is the only tertiary education provider with its own winery.
EITs modern purpose-built complex includes:
- Brand new technologically advanced laboratory
- One of the best wine sensory facilities in New Zealand
- Demonstration vineyard adjacent to the winery
- Extensive inventory of specialist equipment
- Highly skilled and friendly technicians and lecturers.
A more detailed inventory of equipment that is available for use by industry is listed on the Equipment Page.
EITs spacious and well-equipped horticultural facility provides students and industry with a growing environment to meet virtually any need in the research and cultivation of a diversity of crops and plants. Facilities include:
- Hydroponic House with commercial calibre fogging and computer controlled sensory systems caters for wide ranging nutrient and irrigation needs.
- Propagation House incorporating a spacious storage room and sensor-controlled glasshouse. Propagating benches with heated beds and misting systems are available, some of which have black out cloth to shorten day length. The propagation house also offers a large heat box with supplemental lighting to increase day length or photo period.
- Standing Out Area, screened by shade cloth, provides an ideal environment to harden off plants after propagation.
- Tropical Glasshouse with computerised climate control to maintain constant humidity and temperature for frost sensitive and other exotic plants.
The extensive information and research facilities provided by the Twist Library and its professional librarians are available for use by Hawkes Bay food industry producers and processors. We can offer you:
- Library membership card
- Access to the following collections:
- Books - some 30,000 volumes
- Journals - over 400 titles
- Audiovisual - videos, cds, dvds and cassettes
- Newspapers
- Access to information databases
- Mediated searching of information databases
- Inter-library loan service
- Regular e-mail updates of new additions to the Food Science Collection
- Free internet, catalogue and database tutorials
- A reference research librarian dedicated to food industry clients
- Online Library catalogue
Contact Jadwiga Kozyniak on 06-974 8000 Ext. 6033 for more information or e-mail
jadwigak@eit.ac.nz
FOOD AND WINE VISITOR CENTRE
Enjoy a taste of something different in the heart of Hawkes Bay Wine Country.
- Permanent Exhibition on Food & Wine
- Frequently Changing Short Term Exhibitions
- Food & Wine Related Events
- Focus on Innovation
- Profiling Careers in the Food & Wine Industries
- A unique Venue for Functions
EIT and your business - a recipe for success!
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PERMANENT EXHIBITION
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Hawkes Bay: A Feast for All Seasons
The culture of eating and drinking is woven into the fabric of Hawkes Bay life. The wonderful quality and diversity of the provinces food and drink is one of the features that make it such a pleasure to live in, with a lifestyle that is the envy of an increasing number of visitors from around the world.
Agriculture, horticulture and all the related industries that support them, have played a major role in Hawkes Bays history and growth. Ultimately they were and remain its raison d etre vital regional assets, accounting for the lions share of the local economy and providing employment for a large number of Hawkes Bay people.
The exhibition takes a nostalgic look at the sector from the early days of commercial horticulture and agriculture to the vibrant industry that exists today across each step in the supply chain from pasture to plate. This journey includes a brief overview of the history of food and agriculture from the earliest days and the food customs of the Tangata Whenua (the people of the land later known as Maori) in Aotearoa/New Zealand prior to European settlement.
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VENUE HIRE
Like many of the buildings on EITs attractive Taradale Campus, the Food and Wine Building, opened by Prime Minister Helen Clark in May 2004, was designed by notable Hawkes Bay architect Paris Magdalinos.
Located on the ground floor of the building, the Food and Wine Visitor Centre with its permanent exhibition about the regions food and wine industry provides a unique event venue. Catering facilities and an adjacent sixty-seat tiered lecture theatre make it suitable for any small to medium size event whether its a cocktail party, seminar or conference you have in mind.
Using the Food and Wine Building in combination with EITs other facilities, including a 150 seat lecture theatre and a range of on-site catering options, mean that large-scale events can also be easily accommodated. Audio visual equipment and technical support are available if required.
With our own winery and a well-equipped hospitality suite including Scholars Restaurant, we can help you create a memorable experience for your guests or delegates - EIT food and wine matching events are legendary! There is even space for a lawn marquee.
Conveniently located on the edge of Taradale, EIT is only a few minutes drive from some of Hawkes premier wineries as well as the twin cities of Napier and Hastings and Havelock North village, so the options for conference break-out events are unlimited.
Contact wendyj@eit.ac.nz for more information or to make a booking.