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Pl. IV · Visit · Napier, Hawke's Bay

Visit the Shop in Napier

A narrow wine shop with eleven stools at the back. Come in for a bottle off the shelf, or stay for a flight if a stool is free.

Shelf by the window, bar through the back, bike hoop out front. Anything else, write to hello@tastevio.com.

Plate IV, the Tastevio shopfront in elevation A narrow single-storey shop with a stepped parapet and a sign band, a veranda, a display window with a shelf of bottles above a window bench, a recessed door with the tasting bar visible through its glass, and a bike hoop on the footpath. haberdashery front 1 window bench 2 the door 3 bike hoop 4 the bar, through the back 5
  1. haberdashery front
  2. window bench
  3. the door
  4. bike hoop
  5. the bar, through the back
Pl. IV. The shopfront in elevation, drawn from across the street.
Hours and last pour Where to find us

Closed 1-14 April

The opening week drawn to scale A timetable chart with a column for each day. Tuesday to Thursday run from 11am to 7pm, Friday and Saturday from 11am to 9pm, Sunday from 12pm to 5pm, and Monday is closed. A teal line marks last pour half an hour before each close, and dashed boxes after 7pm on Tuesday to Thursday mark booked private tastings.
Pl. IV.a. The week drawn to scale: wash for open, teal for last pour, hatching for shelf only, dashes for booked private tastings.

Hours

Open Tuesday to Sunday

Walk in any time we're open. The bar is walk-ins only, so there's nothing to book for two or four of you. Come before last pour, which is half an hour before the door shuts, every day.

Opening hours, every week except 1-14 April
DayShopLast pour
Tuesday11am-7pm6:30pm
Wednesday11am-7pm6:30pm
Thursday11am-7pmDelivery day6:30pmPrivate tastings from 7pm, booked
Friday11am-9pm8:30pmBar pours until 8:30pm
Saturday11am-9pm8:30pmBar pours until 8:30pm
Sunday12pm-5pm4:30pm
MondayClosedNo pours
Public holidaysClosedNo pours
1-14 AprilClosedVintage, see the note below

Six or more of you? Email a day ahead so we can push stools together. Eleven is all the counter holds.

April on the shop calendar A calendar page for April pinned to the wall. The 1st to the 14th are hatched out for vintage, and the 15th is circled in teal for the day the shop opens again.
Pl. IV.b. April on the shop calendar, the first fortnight hatched out.

Every April

Shut for Vintage, 1-14 April

Pinned inside the door

Every year we shut for the first fortnight of April, the 1st to the 14th. It's vintage.

I've picked at the same Syrah block out at Bridge Pa every autumn since 2014, and the shop deserves a rest as much as I deserve purple hands.

Back on the 15th, probably sunburnt.

Hana

Thursday delivery and special orders pause for the fortnight too, and pick up again the week the door reopens.

Hawke Bay with Napier marked An outline of Hawke Bay from the Māhia Peninsula in the north-east round to Cape Kidnappers in the south, with the Heretaunga Plains and two rivers inland. Napier is marked with a single inked dot inside a teal ring, beside the Bluff. No streets are drawn. Napier
Pl. IV.c. Hawke Bay with the shop marked by one inked dot.

Where

Napier, Hawke's Bay

Ask anyone near the Bluff.

Napier is small enough that the town will point you to us, and once you're close the window bench and the bike hoop out front give it away. Visitors tasting the Bay without a designated driver tend to start here and save themselves a day of cellar doors.

hello@tastevio.com

We answer within a day, except in April.

Private tastings, groups of six or more, special orders and Bay Dozen pick-ups all start with a note to that address.

Before you come

A Few Practical Things

The questions people ask on the way in, answered before you've found a park.

The bar in full The shelf and delivery
  • Delivery Thursdays only, to Napier, Taradale, Bay View, Clive, Hastings and Havelock North. Free on orders over $150, otherwise $8. Nothing is couriered outside Hawke's Bay.
  • Private tastings Six wines and a board for 8 to 14 people, Tuesday to Thursday from 7pm, $45 a head. Email at least 14 days ahead. A $100 deposit holds the evening and comes back in full if you cancel 7 or more days out.
  • Groups at the bar Walk-ins only. Six or more, email a day ahead and we'll push stools together. No bus tours, hen parties or stag groups.
  • ID Checked for anyone who looks under 25. Bring it even if you're sure you won't need it.
  • At the bar Flight of three $18, flight of five $28, glasses $11-$17, the board $16. Any shelf bottle opened at the bar is shelf price plus $10.
  • Taking it home Bottles from $22 to $140, most between $28 and $45. They go out in a paper sleeve or a reused wooden box, never cellophane.