Heilala Vanilla received two top awards at the 2011 New Zealand Food Awards. Held on Wednesday the 19th of October, the awards celebrate innovation and creativity of New Zealand food products. Heilala Vanilla received the ‘Food Export’ and the ‘KPMG Best Food Enterprise Innovation’ awards.
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(May 2011)
An ice cream made with the multi award-winning Heilala Vanilla was named joint winner of the premium vanilla ice cream category recently.
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(Feb 2011)
It's official, Heilala Vanilla is a superstar standout in the vanilla world, with our Heilala Vanilla Paste bestowed the overall runner up award at the Cuisine 2011 Artisan awards.
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(Feb 2011)
Heilala Vanilla Paste wins Cuisine Artisan Awards! Crème Brulee recipe and competition - win a Heilala Vanilla Crème Brulee kit, staff changes as Amy goes on OE and Shona joins the team, Heilala Vanilla exhibits at Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. View newsletter in PDF.
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(Oct 2010)
Heilala Vanilla Paste won the Gourmet award at the NZ Food Awards! View media release in PDF.
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(Oct 2010)
Join us at the Plantation, Vava'u Islands, Kingdom of Tonga, for our annual harvest and South Pacific Cuisine prepared by Peter Gordon. June 9th to 14th. Read the Dish Article in PDF.
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(Sep 2010)
Jennifer from Heilala Vanilla and Damien Styles from Charcoal Lane, Melbourne, Australia cooking it up with Vanilla on Channel Ten, The Circle. Watch the Video.
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(Jun 2010)
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(Mar 2010)
The Dancing Chef Natasha MacAller cooks a Banana Polenta Upside Down Cake using our Heilala Vanilla.
Watch the Video.
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(Feb 2010)
A trans-Pacific partnership is harvesting success for New Zealand's first commercial vanilla growers. Helen Frances reports on the fruits of their labour. View article in PDF.
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(Nov 2009)
New Zealand first commercial crop of Vanilla just harvested in Tauranga! You could have watched the TV3 Breakfast news item but the copyright holder asked us to remove it!
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(Sep 2009)
Real Vanilla straight from the pod is hard to beat! View article and recipes in PDF.
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(May 2009)
Where does Vanilla come from? - listen to our interview on ABC Radio Sydney.
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(Apr 2009)
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(Apr 2009)
In an extensive Vanilla tasting, including Vanillas from Queens, Nielsen-Massey, McCormick and Equagold, Heilala Vanilla Paste was the only product to score the highest rating...
"Heilala Pure Vanilla Bean Paste produces a strong, natural vanilla aroma with a smokey tinge. It is the most natural of all the products tested here, closest to the result for the Madagascar bean. The paste - with lots of seeds suspended in it - is thinkened with natural gum, and mixes easily."
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(Mar 2009)
Last year photo journalist, Jason Burgess, accompanied us on one of our regular trips to our Tongan plantation. The resulting article in Life and Lesuire explores our unique partnership with the local Tongan people that we have partnered with to grow our high quality Vanilla.
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(Mar 2009)
Wondering what to do with those fragrant Heilala Vanilla beans? After producing our Vanilla article, Life and Leisure deciding to publish a few ideas to help!
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(May 2008)
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(May 2008)
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(Mar 2008)
Growing Vanilla commercially in New Zealand - listen to our interview on Radio Live.
Download the podcast (5.9mb).
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(Feb 2008)
"The pricey fruit of an orchid now growing commercially in New Zealand" - listen to our interview on Radio New Zealand programme "This Way Up" to hear more about Vanilla from Patrica Rain (Vanilla Queen), Floriditas Restaurant and our own Garth Boggiss.
Download the podcast (7.3mb).
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(Nov 2007)
They said we couldn't do it and to be honest at times we have wondered, but after 5 years of effort our New Zealand Vanilla vines have produced our first Vanilla in our geothermal heated plastic house - Volcanic Vanilla!
During pollination time we often see a bud, flower and pod set on the same plant.
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(Sep 2007)
The 42 Below Cocktail World Cup is now an annual highlight in Queenstown, New Zealand. This year we supplied Vanilla Pods to the competitors in the final and there were two feature cocktails using Heilala Vanilla Pods, 'Miami' and 'Oriental'.
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(Apr 2007)
With the expansion of our product range into processed extracts and pastes we have invested in certified kitchen facilities. During April we bottled 500 bottles of Vanilla extract and put down a new 1,000 bottle batch. Ongoing development of our exciting Vanilla paste is nearing commercial release.
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(Mar 2007)
Dish Magazine (Mar 2007)
Our first article 'Volcanic Vanilla' was published in the Mar 07 issue 11 of Dish Magazine.
A fascinating insight into why and how we are growing Vanilla in New Zealand in our geothermal heated tropical house in Tauranga.
Download the article (417kb).
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(Aug 2007)
After six months of Food Technology research earlier this year and much trialing with a number of our clients we are delighted to launch our Pure Vanilla Paste.
When a gourmet biscuit manufacturer described a trial batch as 'wicked' we knew we produced a product that carries the same intense Vanilla flavour present in our beans and extract.
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