Wine Cellar & Sommelier Tastings
A working cellar beneath the lobby — 1,400 labels, a climate-controlled tasting room and guided flights from our head sommelier.
A cellar built for tasting, not storage
The cellar holds 1,400 labels with deliberate depth: Australian regions from Yarra to Margaret River, a serious Burgundy and Barolo section, and a back-vintage shelf reserved for tastings. The climate room sits at 14°C and 70% humidity, monitored around the clock.
Head Sommelier Ines Duarte leads daily tastings — regional flights, verticals, blind sessions — in a stone-walled room seating twelve. Private cellar dinners for up to ten can be arranged with the kitchen.
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Tastings & the cellar
Regional flights
Six-glass guided flights — Australian icons, Burgundy, Barolo — with the sommelier's notes.
Verticals & rarities
Back-vintage tastings from the reserve shelf — the bottles that don't appear on the list.
Blind sessions
Unlabelled flights for the curious — or competitive. Scorecards and a modest prize included.
Cellar dinners
Private dinners in the cellar room for up to ten, menus built around the bottles you choose.
An evening below the lobby
The tasting room sits beneath the lobby, walled in stone and held at cellar temperature — jackets provided for the unprepared. Flights arrive in sequence, each wine introduced with the story of its maker and its region.
The signature session is the Australian Icons flight: six glasses tracing the country's regions from cool-climate chardonnay to Barossa shiraz, with the sommelier's map and her disagreements with the critics.
At a glance
- Daily guided tastings, 12 seats
- Reserve-shelf verticals and rarities
- Blind tasting sessions with scorecards
- Private cellar dinners to ten guests
Your visit, step by step
Tastings run daily at 5pm and 7:30pm — private sessions by arrangement.
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Choose your flight
Regional, vertical or blind — the sommelier will also build a flight around your table's preferences on request.
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Descend to the cellar
Twelve seats at the stone table, jackets provided, glasses marked. Phones welcome only for the labels you loved.
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Taste, argue, learn
Six glasses, ninety minutes, no wrong answers. The sommelier's job is your palate, not the script.
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Take it home
Every bottle on the shelf is for sale; favourites are shipped or sent to your suite for the rest of the stay.
Transparent pricing
Regional flights from $85; reserve-shelf and vertical tastings from $160. Private cellar dinners quoted per event. Suite guests receive priority seating at the daily sessions.
from $85 per guest, guided flight
Full price listEvery booking includes
Six-glass guided flight with the sommelier
Cellar tour and climate-room access
Tasting notes and region maps to keep
Cheese and charcuterie boards mid-flight
Cellar pricing on purchases for guests
Bottles shipped or held for your stay
Frequently asked questions
Daily sessions at 5pm and 7:30pm book ahead — twelve seats only. Suite guests get priority; private sessions on request.
Especially. The flights are built for curious drinkers; the sommelier adjusts to the table, and the only requirement is thirst.
Every bottle is for sale at guest pricing — take it to dinner, your suite, or have it shipped home.
Six unlabelled glasses, scorecards, and ninety minutes of argument. Winners take home a bottle from the shelf — chosen by the sommelier, so it's always good.
More answers on our FAQ page or via the concierge desk.
I came in knowing 'red or white'. I left arguing about Yarra chardonnay at midnight.
Guest, Wellington
Take a seat at the stone table
Daily flights at 5pm and 7:30pm — reserve through the concierge or your suite.