The Wine Room by David Nash

The Wine Room by David Nash Auckland's newest wine bar, fine wine retail, private dining room and subterranean wine storage. Coming soon to College Hill.

New neighbourhood wine bar, fine wine retail, private dining space and subterranean wine storage.

We’re going all in on Central Otago this week. Monday-Tuesday we’re here for after-work drinks as the spring sun sets. F...
05/10/2026

We’re going all in on Central Otago this week.

Monday-Tuesday we’re here for after-work drinks as the spring sun sets. From Wednesday on, it’s the Polestar Working Lunch, lasagne, truffle béchamel, a glass of Alan Brady’s Wild Irishman, then the room transforms at 6pm for A Deep Dive into Central Otago. Thursday, Coal Pit w**emaker Anika Willner holds court at one long table. Friday the cocktail shakers are out, Saturday is for long lunches that turn into dinner, and Sunday it’s on from 3pm; the Rosé is on ice.

Where will you be?

Dinner and drinks seven days, lunch Wednesday to Saturday.

43 College Hill, Freemans Bay
Tickets via the link in bio

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Known to the locals as Mt Diff and to the rest of the world as an icon of Central Otago, Mt Difficulty began in 1992 wit...
01/10/2026

Known to the locals as Mt Diff and to the rest of the world as an icon of Central Otago, Mt Difficulty began in 1992 with a Bannockburn handshake: four neighbours pooling fruit from the oldest vines on Felton Road under one label. The name on the hill has not changed.

Come and meet Global Brand Ambassador Matt Jefferis, pouring four new releases: the single-vineyard Long Gully 2020 and Pipeclay Terrace 2020 side by side, named for the gold workings they sit on, plus Target Riesling 2026 and Bannockburn Sauvignon Blanc 2026, straight from vintage. Mt Difficulty

It is the night to be at The W**e Room. No seats, no schedule, 75 people and five producers under one roof.

A Deep Dive into Otago. Five producers under one roof: Wild Irishman W**es, Clos Ostler, Coal Pit W**e, Mt Difficulty and Calvert Vineyard. Self-guided, canapés flowing, 6pm to 8pm, $85, 75 places.

Stay on for dinner before or after. thew**eroom.nz/events

TheW**eRoom

This Wednesday, taste what Felton Road, Craggy Range, Pyramid Valley and Cloudy Bay have known for years: some of Centra...
01/10/2026

This Wednesday, taste what Felton Road, Craggy Range, Pyramid Valley and Cloudy Bay have known for years: some of Central’s most prized fruit comes from Calvert Vineyard.

For twenty years the Calvert block on Felton Road has quietly fed four of the country’s best labels. Owen Calvert bought the bare schist in 1989, planted Pinot Noir ten years later and went organic in 2003. Since 2018 the home block has carried its own name, made by w**emaker Sarah Burton, ex Cloudy Bay. From grower to maker. Calvert Vineyard

It is the night to be at The W**e Room. No seats, no schedule, 75 people and five producers under one roof. Roam, taste, and talk to the people who made the w**e, and to the people standing next to you. Half the room will be the trade, collectors and the usual College Hill crowd; the other half you haven’t met yet.

A Deep Dive into Otago. Five producers under one roof: Wild Irishman W**es, Clos Ostler, Coal Pit W**e, Mt Difficulty and Calvert Vineyard. Self-guided, canapés flowing, 6pm to 8pm, $85, 75 places. Stay on for dinner before or after. thew**eroom.nz/events

TheW**eRoom

This Wednesday is the night to be at The W**e Room. No seats, no schedule, five producers and self-guided tasting all un...
01/10/2026

This Wednesday is the night to be at The W**e Room. No seats, no schedule, five producers and self-guided tasting all under one roof. Roam, taste, and talk to the people who made the w**e, and to the people standing next to you.

Next up: Waitaki, not Central. The other Otago. Clos Ostler is a family-owned monopole estate at the cool northern edge of Otago, planted on a 38-million-year-old marine limestone seabed. Caroline’s Pinot Noir is quite possibly the best red in the country: New Zealand Red Trophy and New Zealand Pinot Noir Trophy at the 2025 International W**e Challenge, after six straight years of gold.

Come and meet Clos Ostler’s Connor Roulet Magides. He is pouring Audrey Pinot Gris 2022, EOS Pinot Noir 2022, Caroline’s Pinot Noir 2021, and a Chardonnay that David said “Finally!” after tasting a preview of just a few months ago: the 2025, pre-release, poured for the first time anywhere. Exclusive to The W**e Room. Clos Ostler

A Deep Dive into Otago. Five producers under one roof: Wild Irishman W**es Clos Ostler, Coal Pit W**e, Mt Difficulty and Calvert Vineyard. Self-guided, canapés flowing, 6pm to 8pm, $85, 75 places. thew**eroom.nz/events

Central Otago W**e Central Otago W**e

Central Otago’s trophy organic vineyard. Coal Pit’s home block on Coal Pit Road in Gibbston is fully certified organic, ...
01/10/2026

Central Otago’s trophy organic vineyard. Coal Pit’s home block on Coal Pit Road in Gibbston is fully certified organic, and everything from it is picked and made on site.

Its Tiwha Pinot Noir took the New Zealand Pinot Noir Trophy at the International W**e Challenge. A bottle is $85. So is a ticket.

Come and meet w**emaker and general manager Anika Willner, who came to Gibbston by way of vintages in Burgundy, Oregon, Germany and South Africa, and was named one of New Zealand’s Young W**emakers to Watch. On Wednesday 7 October she is in the room, pouring the icon that is Tiwha alongside the new Coal Pit W**e

A Deep Dive into Otago. Five producers under one roof: Wild Irishman W**es Clos Ostler, Coal Pit W**e, Mt Difficulty and Calvert Vineyard. Self-guided, canapés flowing, 6pm to 8pm, $85, 75 places. thew**eroom.nz/events

Central Otago W**e

Meet the legend that is Alan Brady. He planted the first vines in Gibbston in 1981, “a mad blunder into the unknown”, to...
29/09/2026

Meet the legend that is Alan Brady. He planted the first vines in Gibbston in 1981, “a mad blunder into the unknown”, to prove w**e could be made at the bottom of the world.

Three w**eries later, and just turned 90, he is still walking his vineyard in Alexandra every morning and putting the 21st vintage of Wild Irishman into barrel. On Wednesday 7 October, he is at The W**e Room, pouring and telling the story himself. Not to be missed by anyone.

A Deep Dive into Otago. Five producers under one roof: Wild Irishman W**es, Clos Ostler, Coal Pit W**e, Mt Difficulty and Calvert Vineyard. Self-guided, canapés flowing, 6pm to 8pm, $85, 75 places. thew**eroom.nz/events

Daylight savoured. An hour lost, an evening gained. See you from 11 🥂
26/09/2026

Daylight savoured.

An hour lost, an evening gained. See you from 11 🥂

This week at 43 College Hill. Lunch. The Working Lunch, Volume 14: paua croquette with crab mayo, then a proper carbonar...
22/09/2026

This week at 43 College Hill.

Lunch. The Working Lunch, Volume 14: paua croquette with crab mayo, then a proper carbonara with guanciale and no shortcuts. David’s pick is Prophet’s Rock Dry Riesling from Central Otago, one glass that does both courses. $55, Wednesday to Friday from midday, presented by Polestar.

What’s on. Wednesday 7 October, The Central Otago Experience: Prophet’s Rock, Clos Ostler, Coal Pit, Calvert and Wild Irishman, poured by the people who make them. Thursday 8 October, A Night in Gibbston: w**emaker Anika Willner in the room, twenty seats selling out fast.

The Reserve. New Zealand’s first private members’ w**e platform. Allocation-only w**es secured in your name, cellared beneath the restaurant, no corkage, ever. Access, not storage. Founding memberships close 31 October.

Lunch and events booked through the link in bio. The Reserve is by application only. Ask the Concierge.

Not where w**e is stored. How it is accessed.Membership is limited. The w**e, more so.Each month we secure allocation-on...
16/09/2026

Not where w**e is stored. How it is accessed.

Membership is limited. The w**e, more so.

Each month we secure allocation-only w**e on your behalf, hold it in your name, and include the cellaring. Every bottle is yours to drink or hold.

The w**e is only part of it. The rest is the part that is impossible to buy: decades of relationships with growers, access to bottles that never reach a shelf, a personal cellar you can access 24-7, and someone whose job is knowing what to get for you and when.

New Zealand's first private members' w**e platform. By application.

thew**eroom.nz/reserve, or come and see the cellars.

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Ora King Salmon, buttermilk, pickled cucumber. A simple menu favourite done well. Open from 11.30am till late
16/09/2026

Ora King Salmon, buttermilk, pickled cucumber. A simple menu favourite done well.

Open from 11.30am till late

Address

2/43 College Hill
Auckland
1011

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 8pm
Tuesday 11am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 12am
Thursday 11am - 12am
Friday 11am - 12am
Saturday 11am - 12am
Sunday 11am - 12am

Telephone

+64212464497

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