Where the legendary St. Gertruds Kloster restaurant served candlelit dinners for two decades, Copenhagen's wine collectors now keep their cellars. The Vault opened in February 2022 at Hauser Plads 32 in the medieval quarter as an exclusive private wine club and professional wine-storage facility - a members-only room where top-rated sommeliers present and pour, built on the simple pitch of enjoying fine bottles in town without restaurant markups. The storage side is the engine: members' bottles rest in secure, climate-controlled conditions at ideal temperature and humidity, each barcode-tagged to a private cellar account that can be checked online at any time - inventory, provenance and drink-by windows included - with allocation programmes adding rare bottles to members' collections quarterly. The club side turns the cellar into a calendar: monthly events from complimentary champagne evenings to producer-sponsored tastings and structured wine education, all hosted in the luxurious lounge where a top sommelier researches and presents each wine. The room itself trades on its past - the vaulted, candlelit atmosphere of the old monastery-cellar restaurant survives in the bones of the place - and the location sits two minutes from Norreport in the quiet triangle behind Kultorvet. Public hours run Wednesday and Thursday 16:00-23:00 and Friday-Saturday 16:00-24:00, with membership enquiries via sommelier@thewinevault.dk; for the city's serious collectors it fills a niche Copenhagen simply did not have before: a bank vault where the deposits are drinkable. The address carries its own legend: St. Gertruds Kloster, the cellar-labyrinth restaurant that occupied these medieval vaults for more than twenty years, was famous across Scandinavia for dining by pure candlelight - over a thousand candles, no electric light in the guest rooms - and the club's designers kept that DNA, so members taste Burgundy where monastery bricks and candle shadows still set the mood.

Type: Bar / Pub

Address: Hauser Plads 32, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1127

Telephone: +45 50 21 20 99

Website: https://www.thewinevault.dk

Opening Date: 01/02/2022