As part of the Hunter Valley Wine and Food Festival, conference guests at Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley and several other properties, will be offered a new and complimentary experience, Burning of the Vines.

Delegates will take part in the ancient harvest ritual to symbolically burn disappointments of the previous financial year and ignite goals for the next. On arrival to their room delegates will receive a vine cutting and a card to write what they want to turn their back on from the previous year and what aspirations they have for the year ahead. They then farewell the old by throwing it into a fire pit or bonfire, and toast to the new.

The tradition originates from the European vineyards and celebrates the end of the grape harvest and the start of the new season's budburst, with grapevine cuttings burnt in huge bonfires to symbolise rebirth.
 

For more information please contact the Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley Meetings team on 02 4991 0907 or email meetings.hunter@ihg.com.a Hunter Valley and several other properties, will be offered a new and complimentary experience, Burning of the Vines.