Wild Table
Weekend
Wild Table Weekend brings together two makers shaped by the same wild, honest instinct — Huntress Wines of Wairarapa and Hapuku Kitchen on the Kaikōura coast.
From Huntress's handcrafted, low-intervention wines to Hapuku's wild game, foraged ingredients and coastal produce, this is a genuine meeting of two crafts rooted in their own distinct places.
Choose one or both days
Meet the Winemaker Dinner
Saturday, 26 September
Wild, rustic, natural, honest — a relaxed evening built entirely around Huntress Wines and food that celebrates Kaikōura's landscape.
Join your hosts — winemaker Jannine of Huntress Wines, and Hapuku Kitchen's Fiona and Chris — for an evening shaped by their shared love of land, food and wine. Limited to just 24 seats at the table, you'll experience a five-course feast pairing Huntress wines with wild ingredients sourced from Marlborough and Kaikōura, with Jannine, Fiona and Chris sharing their story between courses.
Welcome glass of Huntress wine with seasonal canapés
Meet the winemaker — hear the philosophy behind the label
A five-course wild feast, matched course by course with Huntress wines
A rustic, seated evening — wild, natural and unhurried
$195pp
Fire & Harvest Brunch
Sunday, 27 September
$215pp
Wild, hands-on, communal, unhurried — a relaxed morning built around the Hapuku Kitchen gardens, fire and Huntress wine.
Join your hosts, Fiona and Chris of Hapuku Kitchen, for a morning that starts fireside with coffee brewed over the coals, then moves through the gardens to forage seasonal produce. Limited to just 16 guests, you'll cook brunch together over open coals — flatbreads, eggs and bacon, wild meats and seafood — before sitting down to share the meal you've made, with Huntress wine poured throughout.
Coffee brewed over the fire, manuka smoker going all morning
Forage the gardens and grounds at Hapuku Kitchen
Hands-on cooking over open coals, together as a group
A long, shared brunch — fire-roasted kūmara, garden vegetables, smoky flatbread
Keen to join us for both events?
Wild Table Weekend - Both Events
$390pp
Make a full weekend of it. Book the Wild Table Weekend Package and join us for both Meet the Winemaker on Saturday and Fire & Harvest Brunch on Sunday — two very different gatherings, one wild weekend.
As well as saving on the overall price, you'll also take a little of the weekend home with you: a booklet of recipes from Saturday's feast, plus Hapuku Kitchen preserves — a jar of garden preserves and a jar of wild-flavoured salt.