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Peppers Convent Hunter Valley, NSW

Congratulations on your engagement and thank you for considering Peppers Convent in the Hunter Valley for your special day. Peppers Convent offers an exclusive and romantic retreat amongst manicured gardens and private vineyards; perfect for intimate weddings and garden ceremonies. We understand that every bride and groom has an individual wedding style in mind and as such, we offer a variety of ceremony and reception packages to inspire you. We are committed to working with you to create your perfect day by tailoring menus and packages to suit your individual tastes and requirements. George Francisco, executive chef of the acclaimed Restaurant nine and Roberts Restaurant has designed a menu featuring contemporary cuisine using local Hunter Valley produce complimented by Tower Estate wines. We’d love to discuss your wedding with you personally, so please contact our dedicated Wedding Coordinators to arrange a visit to the beautiful grounds of Peppers Convent and Tower Estate. We’re confident that together we can create an unforgettable wedding that’s undeniably all about you. Best wishes,

The team at Peppers Convent 2

Ceremony and Celebration

An elegant ceremony Private and exclusive garden ceremonies are held under the beautiful wisteria-covered courtyard, by the fountain or by the weeping willows next to the lake. With your ceremony chairs set on the lawn and views of the

101 year old Convent and surrounding vineyards, this setting is every bit as magical as you imagined for your wedding day. The ceremony cost is $450 and includes 14 ceremony chairs and signing table.

The Celebration For your reception, you’ll be spoilt for choice with stunning locations catering for up to 300 guests. Choose from Peppers Convent’s elegant wisteria-covered courtyard, exquisite Sunroom, or Grand Marquee.

The Chapel (circa 1888), award winning Roberts Restaurant, Tower Lodge and the Tower Estate Cellar Door or Barrel Room are also beautiful reception venues on Tower Estate, all located just a short walk from Peppers Convent.

Wedding Capacities Room Area m2 Peppers Convent Sunroom Grand Marquee Peppers Convent Wisteria Courtyard Roberts Tower Lodge The Chapel Cellar Door Barrel Room

Cocktail Banquet

52 70 50 165 300 150-300 60 90 60 108 150 110 95 60 48 50 60 40 75 50 25 140 300 150

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Wedding Packages

Wedding Packages Peppers Package

$140 per person

Premium Package

$175 per person

Venue/Marquee use

Venue/Marquee use

Entrée and main OR Substantial canapé menu

Pre-dinner canapés

Your wedding cake served with fresh berries and cream

First and second entrée, main and dessert

4 hour Vinum beverage package (extensions available)

4 Hour Vinum beverage package (extensions available)

Linen, tables, chairs, glassware and crockery

Linen, tables, chairs, glassware and crockery

Convent Package

Inclusive of the above packages are:

$155 per person

Your wedding cake served as petit four

• Personalised menus for each guest Venue/Marquee use

• Cutting, plating and service of your wedding cake

Pre-dinner canapés

• Use of our cake knife and toasting flutes

Entrée and main

• Clothed Cake & Gift tables

Your wedding cake served with fresh berries and cream

• Placement of bonbonniere and place cards

4 Hour Vinum beverage package (extensions available)

• Complimentary car parking

• Personalised guest seating

Linen, tables, chairs, glassware and crockery Please Note - all meals are served alternatively. 4

Wedding and Events Menu

Wedding and Events Menu Oyster Bar - $25.00 per person

Canapé menu - $5.00 per person per canapé

Oyster bar is manned by one chef. It can be set up in the garden or in the cottage

Cold Canapés

Freshly shucked Sydney Rock oysters

Fresh hand rolled vegetable spring rolls

Marinated and steamed, mussels in the shell Marinated and seared scallops

Ricotta cheese, lemon and broad beans on a sourdough crouton

Cooked king prawns

Fresh black figs, house made labna, and lavender honey

Cooked yabbies

Ocean trout confit with fresh herbs on a whitlof spoon

Ocean trout roe

Vanilla scented tuna tartare

Fresh lemon and three dipping sauces

Assorted sushi rolls

Saké pickled Atlantic salmon Goats curd, lavender and pistachios Lightly smoked salmon, salmon roe, lemon crème fraiche and chive crepe roll Spicy bloody mary oyster shooters Tomato gazpacho shooters Miniature bacon, rocket and tomato profiteroles Miniature roast beef fillet, English mustard, rocket and tomato profiteroles

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Wedding and Events Menu

Wedding and Events Menu

Hot Canapés Kipfler potatoes with crème fraiche, flying fish roe and chives Curried chicken, currants and walnuts wrapped in filo pastry Wild mushrooms wrapped in filo pastry Bombolini(savoury donut) of duck confit with aioli Rice paper wrapped prawns with wasabi cocktail sauce Potato and gruyere cheese croquettes with aioli Orange scented parmesan risotto fritters Crisp wontons filled with ginger prawn mousse Carnitas mini empanadas French Kiss- cognac soaked prunes filled with foie gras mousse Braised beef cheek and celeriac cigars Warm flatbread with fresh figs, rocket and lavender honey Warm flatbread with prosciutto, pear and parmesan curls Crispy fried oyster with sour cream and tomato salsa Gougeres (fresh from the oven cheese puffs) Semolina blinis with ocean trout gravlax, crème fraiche and chives

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Set Menu Selections

Set Menu Entrée Package #1

House made potato gnocchi pickled heirloom cherry tomatoes and rocket pesto

Cold Entrées

Char-grilled asparagus and soft cooked pullet egg black mushroom coulis and micro herbs

Warm baby spinach salad with French butter pears, creamy blue cheese and spring onion dressing Baked pistachio crusted goat cheese tartlet baby red oak leaf and lavender salad Crystal Bay Prawn and Ocean Trout roe cocktail Marie rose sauce, fresh avocado and cos lettuce

Crisp pork belly and Thai style seafood sausage apple puree, fennel and purple basil salad Creamy potato and leek soup capsicum oil and house cured Chorizo sausage Sweet corn soup Spanner crabmeat and fresh coriander

Shaved Spanish Serrano Jamon fig relish, toasted almonds and garlic croutons

Tempura ricotta cheese filled zucchini flowers basil pesto sauce, pinenuts and honey

Seared Yellowfin Tuna Nicoise eggs, green beans, red radish, olives, tomato and cornichons

Salt baked black mussels with chilli garlic drawn butter

Caesar salad with crisp smoked bacon, parmigiano reggiano, egg, anchovy and toasted croutons Shaved brasaola (air dried beef) and fig salad spiced walnuts, mache lettuce and balsamic fig gastrique Hot Entrées Seared Hervey bay Scallops potato puree, sweet corn nage and basil pesto oil

Roasted calamari and chorizo sausage chillies, mint, basil, and coriander

Entrée Package #2- Roaming Entrée Roaming entree is a choice of extra canapes instead of a sit down entree option. Keeps your guests mingling and on the dance floor

Red wine braised oxtail ravioli potato mousseline, oxtail jus and crisp fried leeks 7

Set Menu Selections

Set Menu Main Courses

Grilled lamb loin roasted fig, lambs lettuce, lavender grilled shallots and buttered carrot puree

Salmis of Barossa valley chicken breast (very slowly roasted) melted leeks, rich chicken jus and roasted oyster mushrooms

Roast lamb loin, cumin scented carrot coins, cous cous, and black currant jus

Dukkah crusted chicken breast, ratatouille stack, Morrocan spiced chicken jus and braised siverbeet Char-grilled beef fillet, kipfler potato, oyster mushroom and spring onion hash, potato mousseline and aioli Grain fed beef filet served with porcini and white bean puree aioli, fried persillade

Vegetarian options Pumpkin, pistachio and goats cheese roulade with rocket pesto Ricotta and silverbeet gnocchi

Butter-basted Atlantic salmonspring onion soubise and fresh asparagus and sauce ravigote

Sage burnt butter, roasted butternut pumpkin and pinenuts

Olive oil roasted Ocean Trout fillet pea puree, baby red radish, snow pea shoots and Chanterelle mushroom vinaigrette

Layered seasonal vegetable lasagna

Pan roasted gold band snapper hazelnut scented mashed potatoes, shaved fennel ruby grapefruit and cardamom Seared scallops and Byron Bay Berkshire pork medallions roasted baby beetroot, späetzle cake and land cress

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Red wine braised lamb shanks, creamy polenta, braising jus, aioli, gremolata and roast capsicum relish

Chef’s selection of seasonal vegetables from the garden cooked in an interesting way with love

Set Menu Selections

Set Menu Side Orders - Choose two

peppercorns and creme fraiche ice cream

Potato purée

Vanilla panna cotta served with pomegranate molasses and lavender honey

House made shoestring fries Black pepper blistered green beans fried eschallots Roast butternut pumpkin Rosemary and cashew praline Lovedale organic greens salad with shaved parmigiano reggiano

Strawberry Romanoff citrus cream, macerated strawberries and cocoa nib cream Ice cream and/or sorbet terrine with fresh seasonal fruit salad Selection of cheeses with dried fruit, quince paste and lavosh

Desserts

Cheese Tower - $15.00 per person

Mini pavlova with fresh passionfruit and berries

A tower of wheels of artisan crafted cheeses from Europe and Australia garnished with dried muscat grapes, fresh fruit, lavosh, crackers and quince paste

De Bortoli Noble One laced trifle Swiss jam roll, berry chantilly and vanilla custard Classic crème caramel house made shortbread Sticky date pudding butterscotch sauce and vanilla bean ice cream Sticky banana pudding butterscotch, caramelised banana and vanilla ice cream Triple chocolate silk cake raspberry coulis, pink

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Beverage Packages

Beverage Packages - All beverage packages are four hours duration Vinum Selection - $35 per person

Red Wine Tyrrell’s Moore’s Creek Pinot Noir

Tyrrell’s Sparkling Premium Brut NV

Tower Estate Hunter Valley Shiraz

Tulloch Verscato NV

Peppertree Classic Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon

Tower Estate White

Audrey Wilkinson Hunter Valley Temperanillo

Tower Estate Red Inclusive of James Boags, James Boags light, Juice and Soft Drinks

Inclusive of 1 light and 2 full strength beers: James Boags, James Boags Light, Coopers Pale Ale, Peroni Leggera (mid-strength), Juice and Soft Drinks

Wines Makers Selection - Upgrade $9 pp (Choose 1 sparkling, 1 white wine and 1 red wine) Sparkling Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Sparkling Pinot Chardonnay NV Peterson’s Pink Blush Rose NV White Wine Tower Estate Hunter Valley Semillon Peppertree Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc Tower Estate Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris Tower Estate Hunter Valley Chardonnay

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Pure Blonde or Crown Lager or Cascade, Cascade Light

Beverage Packages

Beverage Packages - All beverage packages are four hours duration Boutique Selection - Upgrade $19 per person (Please choose 1 sparkling, 2 white and 2 red wines)

Inclusive of your choice of 2 premium beers*, 1 import beer** and 1 light beer: James Boags, Peroni*, Crown Lager*, Peroni Leggera*, Boags Light, Stella Artois**, Grolsch** Juice and Soft Drinks

Sparkling

Hourly extensions: (price per extra hour per person)

Petaluma Croser NV

Vinum package $9 per person,

Peppertree ‘Silenus’ Sparkling

Winemakers selection $11 per person,

White Wine Mount View Hunter Valley Sauvignon Blanc Margan Hunter Valley Chardonnay Andrew Thomas ‘six degrees’ Hunter Valley Semillon Peppertree Wrattonbully Pinot Gris

Boutique selection $14 per person. Note: Pricing is inclusive of standard glassware and wait staff. Beverages are subject to availability. Beverage menu is subject to change, menu current at 1 February 2011.

Red Wine Tower Estate Tasmania Pinot Noir Andrew Thomas ‘Two of a Kind’ Hunter Valley/McLaren Vale Shiraz David Hook Hunter Valley Barbera Hungerford Hill Hilltops Cabernet Sauvignon

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Wedding Accommodation

Wedding Accommodation Set amongst the beautiful gardens and vineyards of Tower Estate, Peppers Convent is a romantic retreat offering boutique luxury hotel accommodation. Built in 1909 in Coonamble, Peppers Convent was once home to the Brigidine Order of nuns and was carefully transported 600kms to Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley. Lovingly restored to reflect the building’s charming heritage and character, Peppers Convent Hunter Valley infuses the ambience of an indulgent French Baroque hotel mixed with the distinctive character of an Australian country guest house. Peppers Convent’s 17 luxurious rooms feature queen size beds in the deluxe rooms and king size beds in the superior rooms. Both rooms feature bathrooms with deep baths and French doors opening onto verandas with stunning views of the Estate. Dependent on the date and location of your wedding reception, there may be a minimum room reservation requirement to secure your booking and the exclusive use of Peppers Convent.* This will ensure your privacy and enable us to adhere to local noise requirements. Peppers Convent will offer your guests an exclusive

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accommodation rate for your wedding and we have a number of dining options to accommodate your guests including a gourmet BBQ for your family and friends.

Guest accommodation rates Rooms starting from $265.50* per night * Update terms and conditions to *Exclusive use of all 17 accommodation rooms is required. Peppers Convent will include complimentary overnight accommodation for the Bride and Groom for the night of the wedding reception.

Contact us

Thank you for considering Peppers Convent as the venue for your special day. We are looking forward to helping you to create a truly magical day all about you. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes

The team at Peppers Convent

Peppers Convent Ph: (02) 4998 4999 Halls Road, Pokolbin NSW 2320 Email: [email protected] www.peppers.com.au