The annual Harbour Hospice Brunch is a fabulous fundraising event that the Channel Magazine/Benefitz crew try to never miss. This was held at Sky City on Sunday August 4th this year and just shy of $300,000 was raised for Harbour Hospice. A fantastic result and a great boost to funds for the Inpatient Unit at Harbour Hospice Takapuna.

The format of the lunch is based around 12 restaurants and wineries preparing a small dish that is paired with matching wines. Attendees vote for the best match. The Vintners’ Brunch ‘food & wine match of the year’ was Nanam’s (of Takapuna) Homemade Wagyu Beef and Lemongrass Longganisa Batutay Sausage with coriander pickles, chipotle sauce and nuts in a tortilla, matched with Coopers Creek Limeworks Select Vineyards Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2017.

Gold sponsors of the event were Prestige Real Estate, SKYCITY Auckland, and Tauck, represented in New Zealand by Cruise World; and Silver sponsors: Argus Fire Protection, Insphire and SPARK Business Hub North Shore.