Raise A Glass
Cuisine’s first-ever 5* wine collection launches on 6 December. Join the VIP list for first access.
Forty Years of Blind Tasting by Experts. One Extraordinary Release.
Every year, Cuisine’s independent wine experts blind-taste and rank thousands of bottles, setting the benchmark for five-star excellence in New Zealand.
And for years, readers have asked the same question: “When will Cuisine bring all the five-star wines together in one place?”
That moment is finally here.
“Our judges don’t know the vineyards, the labels or the price. What they do know is quality, and these wines are the ones that stopped them in their tracks.”
Cuisine Editor Kelli Brett
One Hundred Cases.
One Exceptional Release
Each collection is crafted in exceptionally small numbers – only 100 boxes are available.
Once they sell out, they will never be released again. Each collection includes:
A curated lineup of Cuisine’s five-star wines.
Food-pairing recipe cards from Cuisine’s best recipes of 2025.
The exact bottles that stopped our judges in their tracks.
Delivered to your dining table with ease by our partner Normanby.
Will one be yours?
Curated By Experts You Trust
Cuisine’s expert judges blind-taste more than 1,200 wines every year, continuing a 40-year tradition that defines the benchmark for New Zealand wine excellence.
Simon Nunns
Cuisine Wine Chair
Mary Therese Blair
Cuisine Wine Columnist
Sam Kimm
Guest Expert & Founder of Wine Orbit
Be First to Uncork the Cuisine
Wine 5* Collection
We’ll be unveiling CUISINES’S FIRST wine collection on 6 December.
Join the VIP list to be the first to ACCESS.
The Summer Collection
The Celebration Collection
The Cellar Collection
New Zealands Most Trusted Voice In Wine
| Feature | Cuisine Wine | wineFriend | Black Market | Glengarry |
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| 100% Blind Tasting on ALL wines |
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| Independent expert judges |
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| Unbiased Selection |
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No | No | No |
| Over 1200 wines tested? |
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No | No | No |
| Wine Scored With Unique 5* Rating |
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No | No | No |
Be First to Uncover Our
5* Collection
We’ll be unveiling THE CUISINE 5* COLLECTIONS on 6 December.
Join the VIP list to be the first to know.