Five Stars, Uncorked
Introducing three limited
edition collections of
Cuisine’s best-judged wines
of 2025, delivered to your
dining table.
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.
The Cuisine Wine 5* Collection
A limited release of just 100 cases per collection.
One Hundred Cases.
One Exceptional Release
Each collection is crafted in exceptionally small numbers – only 100 cases are available.
Once they sell out, they will never be released again.
Each collection includes:
A curated lineup of Cuisine’s five-star wines.
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?
“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
“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
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 Senior Wine Writer and Tasting Facilitator
Sam Kim
Founder of Wine Orbit
New Zealand's Most Trusted Voice In Wine
| Feature | Cuisine | Other Wine Collections |
|---|---|---|
| Wines chosen through rigorous blind tasting |
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No |
| Independent expert judges |
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No |
| 40+ years of trusted wine reviews |
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No |
| Thousands of wines assessed annually |
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No |
| Wine Scored With Unique 5* Rating |
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No |
Ready to Raise A Glass?
Combining the work of New Zealand’s best wine makers, wineries and our outstanding Cuisine experts to bring you this year’s best wines, all in one place, and finally, yours to raise a glass to.
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