A wrapped Hidden Bottle Collective bottle with a numbered tag on a timber tasting table, glasses beyond
The Experience

How It Works

Six bottles arrive. You taste without knowing. You reveal when you are ready.

The Principle

Let the wine speak
before the label does.


Before you’ve poured a drop, the label has already told you what to expect: who made it, where it’s from, what it cost.

Hiding the label takes that away. You taste the wine on its own, make up your mind, and only then find out what it is.

What You Receive

Six numbered bottles,
tasted blind.

A wine bottle in the graphite Hidden Bottle Collective wrap with its numbered tag

01

Taste

Six bottles, wrapped and numbered. No label, no producer, no region. The only thing you know is the number on the tag.

Open them when you like, in one night or over a few weeks, on your own or with friends.

The HBC tasting platform: a table of six numbered bottles on a phone

02

Guess

Pour, taste, and decide what you think. The only rule is that you taste before you reveal.

The HBC tasting platform showing a revealed wine on a phone

03

Reveal

When you’re ready, scan the QR code on the tag. You’ll see the producer, the wine, the vintage and where it’s from. Some bottles will confirm what you thought. Some won’t.

Each reveal links to the producer, so if a wine grabs you, you know where to get more.

The reveal
The Release Model

Two releases a year.


We plan two main releases a year. Each one stays on sale until it’s gone, so there’s no window to catch.

It isn’t a subscription. You buy each release on its own, with no ongoing commitment.

Questions

A few things people ask.

What kinds of wines are included?

A mix of varieties, styles and regions, chosen because they’re interesting to taste blind. We don’t stick to one grape, style or region.

How are the wines chosen?

We choose every wine ourselves, buying from wineries and distributors. Some producers help with the reveal, but that never decides whether a wine gets in. Read how we select.

How does delivery work?

Shipments are delivered by courier across New Zealand. Shipping costs vary by region and are confirmed at checkout. An adult signature is required on delivery. Wine is not left unattended.

Ready?

Register interest in the inaugural release.

We’re choosing the wines for the first release now. It will be available to 10–20 people.

Register Interest