About The Wine List NZ

New Zealand's trusted destination for restaurant-quality wines with personal service. Makes hosting effortless.

Our Story Born during the first lockdown in 2020, The Wine List connects wine lovers with restaurant-quality wines at home. We learned vital lessons about togetherness, time with friends and family, and building shared memories around the table.

Our Approach We source wines the same way restaurants do - guided by professional reviews, customer reorder statistics, and what top New Zealand restaurants feature on their lists. Every wine earns its place through careful curation, not overwhelming choice.

Why Boxes, Not Bottles We sell wine by the box (6 bottles) because in our experience as hosts, you usually need more than one bottle of something good. This approach allows us to deliver fair pricing, better than single-bottle purchases.

Meet Laura Laura is your main contact at The Wine List. Buyer, host, chef, and food writer with 25 years of experience in New Zealand hospitality and food. From bespoke banking software in London to chef training, food writing career, Nestlé test kitchens, three published cookbooks, regular Good Morning Show appearances, and Sunday Star Times recipe columnist.

Laura creates wine recommendations, food pairings, and recipes while managing three children and a husband with a boat. Available for personalised advice at 021 591 500.

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A beautiful full flavoured Vouvray.

A great non alcoholic Red, less robust and less sweet than the Shiraz. Great to have a few options. Excellent service again.

Dicey Bannockburn Pinot Gris 2024

Greystone (Norwester) Pinot Noir 2023

A stunning red. Great price and quick delivery. You won’t be disappointed.

Crisp

Crisp, fruity, pleasurable to drink.

Fiorini Chianti Superiore DOCG 2021

Beautiful deep ruby red colour, and classic Chianti characteristics. Will buy again when in stock.

Excellent wine and service

Laura helped me source a wine off the beaten path , so efficient and the wine is incredible. Highly recommend!!

Chardonnay

Really good wine good price, delivery as detailed, thanks

fantastic wine and service as usual!

delivered within 2 days and drunk within 1!

Great product, fast communication and delivery.

Nice easy purchase

Great product at a great price and speedy delivery

Excellent wine, delivered quickly, at a great price

Love this wine, it’s a fave year after year. The experience with The Wine List was very straightforward, speedy delivery & and first user discount code. Wins all round!

Dicey Bannockburn Chenin Blanc 2023 … so good

Beautiful wine and great fast delivery!

Excellent quality

If a dry, mineral, Chardonnay with a hint of citrus is your preference, this winner is for you. Extremely elegant. Every mouthful a delight. Can hold its own to any French version.

Fat **** Chardonnay

Can't beat a good oaky chardonnay from California. If you like a creamy oaky chardonnay this is for you. Hard to find something similar in NZ unless you are prepared to pay alot more.

Incredible wine for the money

Never really understood the whole appellations thing but this wine looks tastes and smells like a rose from Provence without the price tag. Loving it..

Excellent wine and excellent service.

could not recommend the wine list more! Laura has responded within minutes to our email inquiry and the ordered wine arrived only 2 days after ordering. Excellent!

Christmas came early ..efficient service

Such easy wonderful service.
Wine was a bargain
Beautiful Californian Fat **** Chardonnay, smooth and buttery but not too heavy. Delicious!

FB Chardonnay

I first tried this chardonnay at Manaia restaurant Tairua and loved it straight away, I couldn't find it at most supermarkets nor liquor outlets, so I started to buy online. Very glad you had it in stock : )

Prosecco

First time order with The Wine List and received great service. Ordered online and delivery was very fast. Really enjoy a glass of the Prosecco 🥂.

Great

Everything happened as it should. Perfect

Muddy Waters Pinot Noir

This is an excellent wine- smooth flavours with hints of berries and slight chocolate- good for drinking now or cellaring, great value for money

Mas de Bressades Costières de Nîmes Cuvée Tradition 2023

I am completely taken by the Mas de Bressades cuvee tradition 2023. I really enjoy Cotes de Rhone blanc - this slightly western cousin displays the delights of the mixture of grapes of Rhone origin.

Mas de Bressades Costières de Nîmes Cuvée Tradition 2023

I am completely taken by the Mas de Bressades cuvee tradition 2023. I really enjoy Cotes de Rhone blanc - this slightly western cousin displays the delights of the mixture of grapes of Rhone origin. The colour is a good golden hue; there is a complex nose that gives different emphasis with development in the glass. It is a good aperitif or excellent with chicken/fish etc dishes. Wonderful with fish cooked in the air fryer served with lentils and a persimmon sauce made from fruit from the garden - the last of this season's crop has just been finished but it survived well in the deep freeze and we will try a mandarin sauce that worked wonderfully with pork fillet/tenderloin. Atlantic salmon (not from Tasmania!) works much better than king salmon (but I grew up on the North Atlantic coast where salmon were, in those days, common) so I would say that! The wine is robust, but the nose and flavours respond and develop beautifully. There is always some enticing complexity. I would like to try other wines from this producer.