Event description
📅 Saturday, November 29th – 6:00 PM
📍 The Cargo Shed, Tauranga Waterfront
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
This year’s lineup is stacked with flavour:
Clearview Estate Winery 🍇 – bold Hawke’s Bay reds & bright whites
Alchemy Street Brewing 🍻 – fresh, handcrafted brews
Tierra Noble Tequila 🥃 – premium pours from Jalisco, Mexico
Armada Spirits 🍸 – award-winning gin & vodka
Plus craft mocktails for the sober-curious 🌿
— come ready to sip, savour, and meet the makers!
🍴 Food on the Night
We’ll have 2 food trucks onsite serving tasty eats all evening.
🚚 Buy direct from the trucks (cash & card accepted).
👉 Food is not included in tokens — save those for the drinks!
💃 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 foodie 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 & skip the queue
✅ Main bar accepts cash & card (no tokens needed there). This is also where you buy more 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 for standard pours
🥃 Tasting Trio – 2 red + 1 yellow token for a premium pour
Standard, think beer, wine, standard cocktails. Premium, think top shelf wines, next level cocktails and delicious craft beers.
🎟️ Collect your tokens and keep cup at the gate when you arrive.
🎟️ What Your Ticket Includes
Every ticket gets you:
✨ A Seaside Sippers keep cup to sip from all night
🎶 Entry to The Cargo Shed with live music and entertainment
🍸 Access to 4 incredible vendors serving wines, brews, spirits & cocktails
💃 A high-energy dance show by the Tauranga Rock n Roll Club
🎟️ Ticket Options
General Admission – $69
Entry for one person. Includes your event pass + tasting glass.Sip & Celebrate Group Package (x6) – $385
Entry for 6 people at a discounted rate. Perfect for groups, Christmas parties, or team celebrations. Includes 6x GA tickets.Reserved Table of 6 – $550
Make the night extra special with your own table for the whole evening.
✅ Entry for 6
✅ Early access from 5:30 PM
✅ Your reserved table guaranteed all night long
🎄 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 our band 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 Tauranga Waterfront!
🚌 Looking for a bus pass?
Flick us an email with how many seats you need and your pick-up location. If there’s enough interest, we’ll arrange a bus — a great way to get you safely to and from the venue.
Pickup/drop-off points:
Mount Maunganui (near Burger Fuel & Mellick’s)
Papamoa Plaza (next to McDonald’s & NPD)
📧 info@seasidesippers.co.nz (REF: Bus Pass)
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