24/01/2025
So, weāve been pretty silent since the start of the year & I know itās had a few of you worried, thereās a lot of bad news in the trade at the moment & itās understandable people thought the worst but honestly weāve just been quite busy. Weāve started the year with a fresh attitude & a lot of new faces through the doors, weāve not had much time January blues. Instead weāve thrown open our diary & started planning our best year ever for special moments & even more incredible events than ever.
Last year was phenomenal, from Christmas markets to cheese & wine festivals it was the big things that made the year feel extra special & weāve no intention of slowing down now. Weāre going bigger, adding more, pushing out the boat with a full calendar of outstanding events all year long with some old favourites & some really special new additions.
Yeah thereās going to be much more info to come but thereās some big days to get in your diary already & we wanted to give you plenty of notice because thereās an awful lot to process.
Big big news for our sweet toothed friends because this is the year we revive the chocolate festival with some huge surprises in store. Really excited to be doing something different as our first big event of the year & what better way to kick things off than with every chocoholicās wish come true. Lots of news to come about this but safe to say weāre starting the season with a bang.
Katie Richardson is bringing some much needed mindfulness to our summer with an outdoor Yoga brunch thatās every bit as cool as it sounds, more details to come on this one, booking isnāt open just yet but itās going to sell out, itās going to be zen AF & itās potentially not the only one of the year. Then because weāre all about balance weāre teeāing up a street food BBQ all of our own with some help from a few of our friends in the trade, weāre talking Tom & Ella cooking up a storm, food trucks & live music. Nothing not to love about this one.
Now we know so many of you have loved our big seafood platters over the years but this time weāre doing something different, something bigger, something, frankly ridiculous. Last year we gave you Rochdaleās first Cheese & Wine Festival but this year along with the legends that are Fishop and the fantastic Kwoff we bring you Greater Manchesterās (we think) only Seafood & Champagne Festival. Yeeeees it was always going to happen, weāre finally bringing the finer things to Whitworth Road. Weāre talking a one off, once a year, not to be missed, mic drop moment of oysters, bubbles on ice & bossa nova bands. Seriously, we want you to get dressed up to come drink champagne in a carpark while we kick out some of the best seafood around while looking absolutely fabulous, darlings. And you know what, we know you will. Itās the Catalina wine mixer.
Youāre going to be sick of hearing about the Springhill Hospice walk by summer time but we wanted give you all as much notice to get it pencilled in as possible because as fun as all the other events are, this is the big one. The one that means something. So if you come to one thing we do this year, make it this.
Now you all loved the cheese & wine bonanza so much that this year weāre doing it twice this summer, you heard me, 2cheese2wine. No big surprises, itās not broken, we arenāt changing a thing. Just 300 people coming for a wine. Nothing unusual there.
And who doesnāt want to see a Team McNeeney take on a pumpkin patch at our first ever Harvest Festival? Shut, up. A cosy, autumnal market full of spooky stalls, pumpkin painting & mulled cider, weāre taking everything you love about our famous Xmas markets & going off the deep end for October, itās a Gilmore girlās instagram dream & weāre bringing it right to your doorstep.
And weāre not even talking about Christmas, because, no. Anyway thereās the dates for the markets. Go mad.
Now weāre ready for the whole world to message us with enquires about stalls, about bookings, about what hat to wear to the champagne festival so just bear with us while we get back to you. If you, your business or your band want to be involved please reach out, we are better when we work together.
A very, very organised,
Team McNeeney
Kwoff is a wine shop based in Bury town centre. We sell boutique, concept and award winning wines, spirits and craft beer.
