The Bottle-O Kilbirnie is the neighbourhood liquor store on Bay Road, serving Kilbirnie and the surrounding Wellington suburbs from its shop at 59 Bay Road. It is part of The Bottle-O, one of New Zealand's best-known liquor retail networks, and is locally operated by Moonlife NZ Limited under liquor licence #49D/OFF/111/2026.
Inside, the store covers the full spectrum of a modern bottle shop: beer, wine, spirits, cider, port and RTDs, alongside a non-alcoholic section, confectionery and snacks, gifts and other items, and tobacco and vaping products. Gift cards are available too, and regular specials rotate across the beer, wine, spirits and RTD departments, with the latest catalogue collecting the current deals.
Shopping is flexible — browse and order through the store's online shop and choose Click & Collect or delivery, with a Delivery & Pickup Timetable to help plan your order. Repeat customers can sign in to reorder from My Last Order or My Frequent Purchases in a couple of taps, and all prices are in NZD.
As with all Bottle-O stores, sales are strictly 18+ and the team asks everyone to please drink responsibly. Hours run late most nights: 10:30am–9:30pm Monday to Thursday, 10:00am–10:30pm Friday and Saturday, and 11:00am–9:00pm on Sunday.
Perched on Bay Road at number 59, The Bottle-O Kilbirnie is the local bottle shop for the Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie. It carries the name of one of New Zealand's best-known liquor networks — The Bottle-O has stores right across the country — but this is a single neighbourhood shop, locally run by Moonlife NZ Limited under its own liquor licence (#49D/OFF/111/2026). That combination is a good one for shoppers: the buying power and specials programme of a national group, delivered with the familiarity of a store just down the road. For Kilbirnie locals — and anyone passing through along Bay Road — it covers the everyday bottle-shop essentials as well as the specials hunt.
The store is organised into the departments you'd expect of a full-service bottle shop: beer, wine, spirits, cider, port and RTD — ready-to-drink cans and mixes — plus a non-alcoholic section for anyone skipping alcohol altogether. The range spans everyday drinking through to gifting: a bottle for the weekend, a multipack for a get-together, or something nicer for a dinner invitation. Around that liquid core sit confectionery and snacks for last-minute gatherings, a gifts and other items section, and tobacco and vaping products. Gift cards round things out, which makes the shop a practical stop when you need a present in a hurry and have no idea what to buy.
The specials are worth keeping an eye on. At the time of writing, the store had 230 products on promotion across beer, wine, spirits, RTD and beyond. Typical of the deals are the -196 Vodka, Shochu & Soda multipacks — Double Lemon and Double Grape 6% cans, ten 330mL cans to a box.
Like every Bottle-O store on the Myfoodlink platform, Kilbirnie runs a complete online shop. Browse any department, filter down to specials only, load up the trolley, then choose between delivery and Click & Collect at checkout. A Delivery & Pickup Timetable tells you when orders go out, so you can plan around your evening rather than waiting in.
Signing in unlocks a few quietly useful tools. My Last Order lets you repeat a previous purchase in seconds, and My Frequent Purchases surfaces the bottles you buy again and again. All prices are in NZD, and if you'd rather leave the choosing to someone else, gift cards are sold online as well as over the counter.
The Specials page is broken down by department — beer, wine, spirits and RTD sit at the front — so it's easy to check your category of choice before you shop. New deals land regularly, so it pays to have a quick look even when you know what you came for. The latest catalogue does a similar job in a more browsable format, gathering the current offers across the store. Because not every product is stocked in every store, it's worth searching the online shop or ringing ahead on 04 280 1078 if you're chasing something in particular.
Hours are long. The shop opens at 10:30am Monday to Thursday, closing at 9:30pm; Friday and Saturday run 10:00am to 10:30pm — the longest days of the week — and Sunday is 11:00am to 9:00pm. Sales are strictly 18-plus: the store states plainly that it is an offence to sell or supply alcohol to anyone under 18, or to obtain it on their behalf, and asks all customers to drink responsibly. If you can't find what you're after, the team can be reached on 04 280 1078 or at [email protected].
Whether you're restocking the fridge for the weekend, grabbing a multipack of RTDs on the way to a friend's place, or settling the gift list with a Bottle-O gift card, The Bottle-O Kilbirnie keeps it simple: a broad range across beer, wine and spirits, honest rotating specials, and the choice to shop in person on Bay Road or online from the couch.