Special events

Events at Kania Lodge

Each spring and autumn Kania Lodge’s events calendar is full of wine, music, literary, gastronomic and other weekend happenings. Amongst the speakers and performers are leading winemakers and sommeliers from abroad, celebrated Polish musicians and well-known authors. The events are complimentary to lodge guests and open to day visitors with confirmed reservations for the limited number of additional places available. You can also listen to the Mykhalichenko sisters, Khrystyna and Sasha, you may have missed at a Kania concert in 2022.

Fifty years behind the camera

Saturday 10 May, 2025

Chris Niedenthal

Being in the right place at the right time, whether by luck or design, is how good photographers get great news pictures. No one knows this better than Chris Niedenthal whose 50 years as a professional photographer brought him awards, fame and fortune. He'll be with us to launch and talk about his new book Wlasciwy Moment which chronicles, in pictures of course, his amazing life as a photographer. He'll also  sign copies of the new book which Kania Lodge will gift guests.

Encore concert

Saturday, 17 May 2025

Agnieszka i Andrzej Sowa

Agnieszka and Andrzej Sowa’s two French impressionist concerts in the spring and autumn last year were much loved by guests and they’ve kindly agreed to perform again for us in May. What could be more in tune musically on a (hopefully) sunny spring day than listening to Debussy, Ravel, Faure, Massenet, Saint -Saens and Satie with a glass of chilled white wine in hand while overlooking the lodge vineyard? The couple have played at venues around the world, including New Zealand, where Saint-Saens piece the Swan helped bring fame and fortune to ballerina Anna Pavlova at the beginning of the 20^th century. The ethereal music and her performance in tutu skirt, silk bodice and goose feathers helped give birth to New Zealand’s light an airy dessert, Pavlova. We’ll be serving the lodge’s much-loved version of it during the intermission.

Passionately Tuscan

Saturday, 24 May 2025

Mario Mancuso

One of the great things about Tuscany is that it produces not only inexpensive food-friendly wines for everyday drinking, but also vinously distinguished titans like Vino Nobile, Brunello and Super Tuscans.Nobody does the whole range better than Carpineto, a stand-out family-owned winery from the picturesque region of Greve. The winery's Mario Mancuso will be with us for the weekend of May 24 for a tutored tasting of of its celebrated entry level Originale, Dogajolo and Chianti along with an outstanding Vino Nobile Reserva, and a Super Tuscan made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. You'll get to nibble on Tuscan salami and prosciutto while Mario's talking you through the wines and Carpineto vineyards and winery.

New Zealand's best red

Saturday, 31 May 2025

Tobias Buck

Is Coleraine from Te Mata Estate New Zealand's best red wine? It continues to receive that accolade from many of the world's top wine critics, some of whom have even compared it to Bordeaux's legendary Chateau Lafite Rothschild and California's Opus One. Coleraine has been on Kania Lodge's wine list since 1996 and there'll be a rare opportunity taste it and other Te Mata wines on Saturday, May 31. With us will be Toby from the Buck family which has owned Te Mata, New Zealand's oldest winery, for the past 50 years. In addition to Coleraine, Toby will also introduce you to Awatea, Cape Crest and other Te Mata gems.

Low and non-alcohol wines

Saturday, 14 June 2025

Liliana Witkowska 

They’re increasingly sought after these days for several reasons, health and drink-driving regulations amongst them. Non-alcohol wines contain 20% of the calories found in standard wine. Low alcohol wines enable you to drink two glasses and drive home without breaking the law. But are they any good and, like non-alcohol beer, getting better and better as time goes by? Join our sommelier Lila Witkowska to find out at this tutored tasting of low and non-alcohol wines from France, Portugal Germany and distant New Zealand. Lila will also talk you through the ways alcohol is removed from wine and offer guests a taste of a New Zealand gin made from alcohol spun out of a classy Sauvignon Blanc. And don’t worry; she assures everyone that hundreds of normal wines remain on the lodge wine list.

Vouchers

A Kania Lodge voucher is the perfect gift. It’s a thoughtful and much appreciated way of saying thank you to family and friends as well as business associates and outstanding employees. Our gift vouchers can be personalised with your own unique message and we’ll send them to you or directly to a designated recipient in a special gift envelope. The vouchers can be for any amount you choose and redeemed anytime at the lodge on accommodation, food and wine.