A restaurant with a serious cellar.
43 College Hill, Freemans Bay · Open seven days
Create your own private event.
New Zealand's finest private dining room, one long table for up to twenty, or the whole venue for seventy-five. Winemaker dinners, long lunches, launches and birthdays, with our kitchen and the cellar downstairs.
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Cellar and drink later.
New Zealand's first private members' wine platform. Allocation-only wines secured in your name, cellaring included, and your collection beneath the restaurant rather than in a warehouse across town.
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New Zealand's finest private dining room.
One long table, two to twenty guests, and a menu that runs from a trust-the-chef shared banquet to a plated, wine-matched dinner. Fireside catch-ups, corporate dinners, milestone birthdays, and, of course, our winemaker dinners.
Take the whole venue and it becomes something else again: up to 75 for a standing canapé event, an oyster station at the bar, Champagne from the great houses and the growers we love.
Lunch, dinner, and the long afternoon in between.
Our kitchen's menu runs from oysters and snacks at the bar through to a full à la carte in the dining room. European in its instincts, New Zealand in its produce, and built, always, with the wine match in mind.
Weekdays it is the working lunch that runs late. Sundays it is the Proper Sunday Roast, one long table, twenty seats. Every night it is a room that feels like the best table in Auckland happens to be yours.
Four hundred bottles. Forty open right now.
The very best from here and the very best from there. Champagne from the great houses and the small growers, Burgundy and Bordeaux with age on them, and the New Zealand producers we have known for decades.
The list changes monthly. The bottles worth trying are open by the glass, so you never have to commit to find out.
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Drop in. Stay a while.
No booking needed. The bar is the classics, done properly: a glass of something serious, a martini made the right way, and a snack menu built on salt, acid, fat and a little sugar so that whatever you order, there is a wine to go with it.
The sun deck catches the afternoon light. The cigar deck catches the evening. Both take walk-ins, seven days.
The bar menuDon't book a venue.
Book an experience.
This Christmas, bring your people to College Hill and let us build the night around them. From the private dining room to the whole venue, Christmas dates are filling, so tell us yours.
The long table
A menu from our kitchen, built around the wine you choose.
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The party
A live band, cocktails and the night to yourselves.
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Golden hour
Canapés and cocktails as the light goes down.
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A tasting
A few special bottles, opened and talked through at your table.
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Access, not storage.
For two years The Wine Room has been New Zealand's home of premium subterranean cellaring. The Reserve is what comes next: membership of a private wine platform, where allocation-only wines are secured on your behalf, the cellaring is included, and every bottle is yours to drink or hold.
Most fine wine collections live in a bonded warehouse in another city, behind a form and a fortnight's notice. Yours is beneath the restaurant. Tell the Concierge in the morning and find it decanted at your table that evening, with no corkage, because it is already yours.
To drink
Wines chosen for your table, held in perfect condition metres from where you will open them. No corkage, ever, on your own bottles.
To cellar
Wines that want time. Laid down under professional care, tracked bottle by bottle, and resellable through the Reserve when you choose.
To leave
A cellar built for someone else. Birth-year bottles, a wedding case, a collection your children inherit rather than a portfolio they liquidate.
Membership is arranged personally, one member at a time. It begins with an application. Founding memberships close 31 October.
Take the list home.
The wines from the list, the library releases from our winemaker dinners, and the glassware we pour from, by Jancis Robinson MW. Curated by David Nash, in store and online, delivered anywhere in New Zealand.
Shop the cellarFirst to hear, first to book.
Winemaker dinners sell out to the list before they reach the website. One email a fortnight: what's on, what's just landed in the cellar, and the odd bottle we can't keep quiet about.