🎪✨ Carnival of Taste 2025 – Rockabilly, Rhythm & Real Good Drinks! ✨🎪

Saturday, November 29th – 6:00 PM | The Cargo Shed, Tauranga

After a massive night in 2024, we’re back — and bringing even more flavour, energy, and vintage flair for the Carnival of Taste 2025!
Get ready for bold drinks, banging tunes, and a high-energy night of tasting, dancing, and celebrating in true rockabilly style.

🍷 What’s Pouring: Meet the makers

A Hawke’s Bay winery serving bold reds & bright whites 🍇
A local brewery pouring fresh, handcrafted brews 🍻
Two standout local distillers shaking up signature cocktails 🥃
Craft mocktails for the sober-curious 🌿
And more vendors to be announced — come ready to sip, savour, and meet the makers!

💃 Dress the Decade:

This is a 50s rock ‘n’ roll party — think Grease Lightning, retro diners, and poodle skirts under the fairy lights.

Channel your inner Sandy, Rizzo, or Danny Zuko with:
🍒 Polka dots, petticoats, and victory rolls
🕶️ Leather jackets, cuffed jeans, and slicked-back hair
👠 Bandanas, cat-eye glasses, bowling shirts — go all out!

🎁 Best Dressed on the night wins a hamper – so don’t hold back!

🪙 How the Drinks Work:

This is a token event! — All vendor drinks require tokens to purchase.

✅ Buy your drink packs online to save money and skip the queue
✅ Main bar accepts cash & card (no tokens needed there). This is also where you buy more drink tokens on the night.
🚫 Food trucks are cash/card only – no tokens used for food

Online Only Drink Pack Options:

🍷 Mini Sip Pack – 2 red tokens
🥃 Tasting Trio – 2 red + 1 yellow token for a premium pour

🎟️ Pick up your tokens at the gate when you arrive.

Tokens are also sold individually at the main bar, on the night.

🎄 The Ultimate Christmas Party:

Whether you’re coming with your crew, your office team, or your dancing shoes — this is the pre-Christmas party you’ve been waiting for.

Live rock’n’roll from the Tauranga Rock n roll Club will kick things off, and then Midnight Fizz takes over to pump out the hits and get the dance floor moving.

📣 Tickets are limited – dress up, sip up, and join us under the lights on the beautiful Tauranga Waterfront!

Looking for a bus pass?

Flick me an email with how many bums on seats your after and what pick up location. If we have enough interest then a bus can be arranged. A great way to get you safely to and from the venue.

Pickup/drop off points:

Mount Maunganui (close to Burger Fuel & Mellick)

Papamoa Plaza ( next to Mc Donald's & NPD petrol station)

info@seasidesippers.co.nz REF: Bus pass