Corporate Packages Meetings, Team Events, Functions, Xmas Parties Passage Rock located on the stunning Waiheke Island is an idyllic venue just 30 minutes drive from Matiatia and your team can feel like you have escaped the hustle and bustle to your own little haven. We provide a range of wine & food related activities, bistro dining, meeting facilities, all in the setting of our operating vineyard. All of our activities are competitive, with scoring and resulting in a winner or winners. They are designed to be fun and interactive. Our covered outdoor area seats 80 people, as does our indoor restaurant, bringing our full capacity to 160 people. Some options are only available for certain sized groups so please enquire as to what you’re interested in and we can quote accordingly Meetings / function options ❖
Morning & Afternoon Tea options starting at $11.50pp ❖
Meeting room with white board & flip chart $500 ½ day or $80 p/hr
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Set menu options for lunch/dinner starting from $27pp ❖
Team building and team activity options starting from $45pp ❖
Transfers to and from the venue price on request ❖
Wine tasting and presentation options starting from $10pp Meetings Winter Special For groups of 30+ during weekdays until the end of October 2015 (excuding July due to closure of venue) we
are offering exclusive use and no room hire for groups booking for a meeting package that includes activities
and food.
Team Building Activities Please note some activities such as Wine Stomping can only be added as an extra if already doing the Grape Pruning & Harvesting Challenge and some activities as outlined below have extra charges. Please contact us for further details or quotes. Pricing is -­‐ $45 pp for 1hr / $65pp for 1 ½ hrs / $75pp for 2hrs all prices inc gst. Outlined next to each activity below is a time; combine these activities together to make up your chosen timeframe. Please note some activities can only be booked in conjunction with another activity this is outlined next to these activities below. Outdoor Activity Options Develop your team’s skills by using teamwork to encourage communication and collaboration while absorbing the romance and knowledge of wine making. ❖
Barrel Obstacle course - 15mins Barrels of fun! Traverse the vines and their surrounds to conquer our obstacles while rolling a wine barrel.
You will have to be resourceful as a team to work out how to manoeuvre in this wine country ❖
Wine waiter race challenge - 15mins Each team is given a wine tray with 4 wines to be delivered to your customer by relay down the vines.
Each tray is lined with a perfectly white piece of paper...I think you can guess the aim here. Each team
will be scored by best time & amount of wine spilled. Find ways to stabilize your wine glasses to increase
speed or go for pace and accuracy. How risky are you? ❖
Cork tower challenge - 15 mins Each team will be given a box of corks, pins, blue tac and rubber bands. You will be timed and each
team’s creation will be scored by Beauty, Construction, Height & Strength. Sculptor or architect both
could win here. ❖
Golf amongst the grapes - 15mins Get a hole in one. Each team member gets 5 attempts to gain scores towards the teams overall total. Get
the ball into the ½ barrel or any of the surrounding target for varied scores. Go for the high score or try
for lots of the easier targets to bulk up your total. ❖
Pruning & harvesting vines challenge - 30 mins (Available seasonally) Work with our vineyard team to be a vintner for a day. You will be given a set of challenges designed by
our wine maker that will be physical, but also will use your intelligence to make decisions about what to
do with your vintage. ❖
+ ADD ON – The Wine stomping experience (available seasonally) - 30 mins – Optional: this can
include wine allocation of 3 bottles of your own wine which will be dispatched to the company 12
months later. This is $40-65 extra pp depending on the variety picked ❖
Upgrade to get the full wine making experience after harvesting get the experience of foot stomping
your own grapes to make your own batch of wine. NOTE: In the case of bad weather where possible any outdoor activities that cannot be done indoors will be swapped out for one of our indoor options. If this is not possible and due to weather all or part of your activity program cannot go ahead it will be deducted from your bill. Indoor Activity Options You can have the confidence to relax and know we have all bases covered for wet weather with range of exciting indoor options. Of course it does not have to be raining for these popular choices to be added to your itinerary. ❖
Wine tasting challenge - 15 mins - $4 - $6 extra pp depending on how many wines. Become a connoisseur for a day. Your team will be given 2-4 mystery wines. There will be a table with
taster glasses each holding actual characteristics that could be found within those wines. Ie: burnt toast,
lychees, chocolate etc. The team is then given a time challenge to write down the variety, year and as
many characteristics as they can come up with on the nose or palette. You will be judged and scored on
accuracy but also creativity so don’t hold back on your whacky ideas of what you think, they may pay off. ❖
Make your own wood fired pizza challenge- 30 mins - $6 extra pp – NOTE: Only available for
exclusive use bookings or early/late itineraries not during peak service 12-3pm Be a Chef for a day. The team must vote to hire a head chef from the team. “Chefs” be given all the
ingredients needed to design an award winning pizza concept. They will then have to direct their kitchen
crew to prep the toppings, roll the dough and cook the pizza which will be scored out of 10 by our guest
judge. ❖
Food pairing challenge - 30 mins
Combine either the Wine Tasting or Wine Blending Challenge with this food pairing challenge to tie
together all the knowledge required to be a real “Foodie”. Each of the tasted or created wines will be
presented alongside the pizza’s created and teams will have to decide which wine to match with each of
the created pizza’s. Teams will have to present their choices and explain why. Our judge will choose a
winner based on accuracy of the combination and the creativity. ❖
Wine blending activity - 30 mins $7 extra pp Receive 2-4 distinctive Passage Rock wines and blend them as a team to your own specific tastes. As wine
makers for a day your creations will be blind tested by one of our vineyard experts and judged on balance,
taste and creativity. ❖
Design your own team wine label - 15 mins Enhance the story of your wine to sell the concept and romance of your label. Create a catch
phrase/mission statement of your winery and design your logo. This will be added to the judging and could
push you into the lead. How many people buy for the label? ❖
Cork tower challenge - 15 mins Each team will be given a box of corks, pins, blue tac and rubber bands. You will be timed and each teams
creation will be scored by Beauty, Construction, Height & strength. Sculptor or architect both could win
here. Free activities available onsite include croquet, trampoline & sandpit (for children) Packages start from $88pp +gst including transfers, lunch/dinner & team building (Minimum of ten people) Passage Rock Vineyard Weddings / Wedding package 2015/16 / 438 Orapiu Road, RDI, Waiheke Isalnd, New Zealand.
Tel:+ 64 9 372 7257;Fax: + 64 9 3723263 Email:[email protected] /
www.passagerock.co.nz