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Allez! Greytown’s favourite little French themed event is back! Get ready for French 75 In Pink 2025 at Alexia!
Saturday 1 March is the LAST day of our summer wine bar season before we head off to pick the grapes and make more wine, so what better way to say goodbye for a little while than a day of French ‘joie de vivre’ celebrating this classic gin and champagne cocktail!
Invented in the bars of Paris during WW1, this Champagne cocktail was named after the French 75mm artillery field gun - because both gun and cocktail were known to knock you flat!
New Zealand only has a tiny handful of in-house Méthode Traditionnelle (fizz) producers, and we are one of them… so what better cocktail for this little urban winery to make! Even better, we make our French 75s pink, using none other than our special Rosé Méthode Traditionnelle bubbly – a delicious combination!
This is your call to cancel all boring plans for March 1 and instead come to Alexia for a special afternoon filled with ‘joie de vivre’!
The French flags will be flying, the berets will be positioned at the jauntiest angle possible and the croque monsieurs and petit fours will be ‘magnifique’! Are we excited? Oui!
Alexia will be donating $5 from each French 75 sold towards fundraising efforts for the Greytown Festival of Christmas.
Essential details: 12PM – 5PM, Saturday 1 March, Alexia Urban Winery, 197 West Street, Greytown.
No bookings required just turn up. Dogs ok. GF? Yes. This is a rain or shine event so don’t miss out!
Upcoming Events
Books at the Wine Bar (Autumn Edition)
After the runaway success of our first Books at the Wine Bar in January we are very excited to be co-hosting another edition of this fabulous silent reading party at Alexia with Mrs Blackwell’s Village Bookshop on Friday March 7.
What is a silent reading party? You come to Alexia by yourself or with others, with a book. Start the evening with a glass of wine, food, and some chat, then you have a glorious hour of silent reading in the company of others with the sound of some nice music and the birds in the background.
The evening finishes with more wine and chat, then we all go home....It’s an hour where you can sit with friends or in friendly solitude and read without your internal voice telling you all the things you should be doing, or some external voice asking you "what's for dinner?'.
Perfect for a relaxed catch-up with friends (with a 1-hour reading pause in-between).
When: Friday, March 7, 2025
Where: Alexia
How: This is a ticketed event, just $10 from the Village Bookshop - www.mrsblackwell.com
No door sales.
The details:
Winery opens at 4:30pm - arrive early for food, wine and first dibs on seats!
Silent reading begins at 6:05pm, finishes 7:05pm
Winery closes at 8pm sharp.
