diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/stable.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/stable.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9c1f7fd24ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/stable.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, xlibs, flex, bison, mesa, alsaLib
+, ncurses, libpng, libjpeg, lcms, freetype, fontconfig, fontforge
+, libxml2, libxslt, openssl, gnutls, cups, libdrm, makeWrapper
+}:
+
+assert stdenv.isLinux;
+assert stdenv.gcc.gcc != null;
+
+let 
+    version = "1.6";
+    name = "wine-${version}";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://sourceforge/wine/${name}.tar.bz2";
+      sha256 = "1bj21d94i0mqvkmzxd4971232yniribk7q3fllf23ynbpppk1wg1";
+    };
+
+    gecko = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://sourceforge/wine/wine_gecko-2.21-x86.msi";
+      sha256 = "1n0zccnvchkg0m896sjx5psk4bxw9if32xyxib1rbfdasykay7zh";
+    };
+
+    gecko64 = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://sourceforge/wine/wine_gecko-2.21-x86_64.msi";
+      sha256 = "0grc86dkq90i59zw43hakh62ra1ajnk11m64667xjrlzi7f0ndxw";
+    };
+
+    mono = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://sourceforge/wine/wine-mono-0.0.8.msi";
+      sha256 = "00jl24qp7vh3hlqv7wsw1s529lr5p0ybif6s73jy85chqaxj7z1x";
+    };
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  inherit version name src;
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    xlibs.xlibs flex bison xlibs.libXi mesa
+    xlibs.libXcursor xlibs.libXinerama xlibs.libXrandr
+    xlibs.libXrender xlibs.libXxf86vm xlibs.libXcomposite
+    alsaLib ncurses libpng libjpeg lcms fontforge
+    libxml2 libxslt openssl gnutls cups makeWrapper
+  ];
+
+  # Wine locates a lot of libraries dynamically through dlopen().  Add
+  # them to the RPATH so that the user doesn't have to set them in
+  # LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = map (path: "-rpath ${path}/lib ") [
+    freetype fontconfig stdenv.gcc.gcc mesa libdrm
+    xlibs.libXinerama xlibs.libXrender xlibs.libXrandr
+    xlibs.libXcursor xlibs.libXcomposite libpng libjpeg
+    openssl gnutls cups
+  ];
+
+  # Don't shrink the ELF RPATHs in order to keep the extra RPATH
+  # elements specified above.
+  dontPatchELF = true;
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    install -D ${gecko} $out/share/wine/gecko/${gecko.name}
+  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString (stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux") ''
+    install -D ${gecko} $out/share/wine/gecko/${gecko64.name}
+  '' + ''
+    install -D ${mono} $out/share/wine/mono/${mono.name}
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/wine --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${stdenv.gcc.gcc}/lib
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.winehq.org/";
+    license = "LGPL";
+    inherit version;
+    description = "An Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix";
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/stable.upstream b/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/stable.upstream
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b5913798a88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/stable.upstream
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+url http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/
+version_link '[-][0-9]+[.][0-9]*[24680][.]([0-9]+[.])*tar[.][^./]+/download$'
+SF_redirect
+do_overwrite () {
+  ensure_hash
+  set_var_value version "$CURRENT_VERSION"
+  set_var_value sha256 "$CURRENT_HASH"
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/unstable.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/default.nix
rename to pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/unstable.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/default.upstream b/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/unstable.upstream
similarity index 88%
rename from pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/default.upstream
rename to pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/unstable.upstream
index e23f341c28a..e3616df7680 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/default.upstream
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/wine/unstable.upstream
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 url http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/
+attribute_name wine_unstable
 version_link '[.]tar[.][^./]+/download$'
 SF_redirect
 do_overwrite () {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index fe87160c718..6e379079dd8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10164,7 +10164,9 @@ let
   VisualBoyAdvance = callPackage ../misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance { };
 
   # Wine cannot be built in 64-bit; use a 32-bit build instead.
-  wine = callPackage_i686 ../misc/emulators/wine { };
+  wineStable = callPackage_i686 ../misc/emulators/wine/stable.nix { };
+  wineUnstable = callPackage_i686 ../misc/emulators/wine/unstable.nix { };
+  wine = wineStable;
 
   # winetricks is a shell script with no binary components. Safe to just use the current platforms
   # build instead of the i686 specific build.