Private Sales
Your very own Cellar Master
Introducing your very own Cellar Master, Alcides Pont Neto.
One familiar face for all your wine needs.
Alcides Pont Neto.
For more than twelve months Alcides has worked the floor, the events and the sales at The Wine Room. You have probably met him already.
Now he is the one person to call for all your wine needs: your personal buying, stored on site in your cellar at College Hill; your Reserve buying and allocations; and your corporate buying and gifting, from a single bottle to the whole client list.
He brings WSET Level 3 and is studying for the WSET Level 4 Diploma, with a post-graduate degree in wine business from Barcelona and years on the sales side of wineries from the Adelaide Hills to Waiheke and Central Otago. Tell him how you drink and who you pour for, and the right bottles find their way to your table, your cellar, your event or office.
All your wine needs, one person.
Build your cellarFrom a first case to Grand Cru, chosen with Alcides and kept beneath College Hill.Talk to Alcides
Corporate giftingThe right bottle for every name, in our bag with a handwritten card, delivered to one address or fifty.Talk gifting
Exclusive offersA short list of wines each week, at prices for The Private List only.See this week's offer
Everything a wine merchant should do, and a few things more.
Every service below starts with one conversation with Alcides. Email him, or join the list and he will call.
Personal buying and managed cellaring
Buy through Alcides at retail or below and own every bottle. Keep it at home, or in your own cellar beneath College Hill at 12 to 14°C, with 24-hour access and no corkage when you drink your own at The Wine Room.
Email AlcidesThe Wine Room Reserve
For members of The Wine Room Reserve, Alcides secures allocation-only wines in your name, manages what goes into the cellar and what comes out, and keeps the inventory current. Building you an enviable cellar to enjoy for years to come, with none of the effort.
About The ReserveWeekly private offers
A short list of wines that we have secured access to each week, released to The Private List first and generously priced for the list only. Choose the wines and quantities, and Alcides confirms and delivers to your home or cellar.
See this week's offerCellar planning and advice
Where to start, what to buy next, and when to open what you already have. Drinking windows written down, gaps filled, and a cellar you will actually drink.
Book a meeting over a glassCorporate buying
An account for the office: boardroom wines, client dinners, the Christmas list and one invoice a month, with a person who picks up the phone.
Email AlcidesGifting
Personal or corporate, one bottle or fifty. The right wine for each name, in our burgundy bag with tissue and a handwritten card, delivered across Auckland and New Zealand.
Talk giftingAt home and private tastings
Alcides comes to you: a walk through your cellar, or a tasting in your dining room with the wines chosen for the guest list and poured by someone who can talk about them.
Book a visitWines for your event
Wedding, launch or long lunch, the wines chosen to the brief and the budget and delivered to the venue, with Jancis Robinson glassware if you need it. For events in the room, our events team takes over.
Email AlcidesShip your cellar to New Zealand
From anywhere in the world, we manage the entire process of getting your wines to New Zealand and into our cellar, in the most tax-efficient way possible.
Email AlcidesShip your cellar from New Zealand, worldwide
Moving abroad, or sending a few loved cases to one of your other residences? Contact Alcides for a quote.
Ask for a quoteSee this week's private offer.
Each week Alcides releases a short list of wines to The Private List, at prices you will not see on the shelf. Choose your wines and quantities, and he does the rest.
Join The Private List.
Weekly private offers, first call on allocations, and one person who knows what you drink. Alcides replies personally, usually within one business day.