No preservatives, no additives, no GE assistance and no shortcuts are used to create our homemade jam, chutney, sauce, dressings, preserves and marmalades. We use only the best of dessert grade fruit and we believe flavour is of prime importance.


Bentwood Barn's food products are handmade in small batches with lashings of passion for good food and ideal gifts.

Bentwood Barn has been concocting handmade jams, chutneys, sauces and dressings to stimulate the senses and salivate the tastebuds of its customers since the early 1990s, using unique combinations of organically grown seasonal produce and traditional fruit varieties and spices.

“At Bentwood Barn, we believe that eating is a pleasure, an everyday experience to be anticipated and relished. We love to experiment with taste. We create flavours that intrigue and inspire.”

Considerable effort is made to source the very best of ingredients such as quince from Queenstown, Moorpark apricots from Central Otago, organic Black Doris plums and home-grown Blackboy peaches.

A number of Bentwood Barn food products have been created as a result of our quest for superior taste and our everyday love affair with food. Some have been created to appeal to our taste for the old-fashioned and others are more exotic

Above all, Bentwood Barn’s products are finely crafted, sumptuous and simply irresistible.

Bentwood Barn products can be purchased from Escape Gallery and Gifts located at the Grape Escape complex corner McShane Road and Coastal Highway Richmond, or you can purchase online from our products page.