The mission of this catalogue is to provide collectors with official  numbers for all the New Zealand Wine Post stamps. New for you on this site on the bottom of this page. Items for sale on our Stamps Direct. Go down the page and take a look at Stamps Direct.

New Zealand Wine Post is the independent postal operation of the World's Most Southern Winery which is recognized by Guinness Records. These two things make it of special interest to the collectors. Stamps are issued for the carriage of its correspondence and wine. As an Independent post, the wine post gained the right to use its own stamps in 1990 when New Zealand regulated it’s postal services. There are many other independent mail carriers of some interest to collectors in New Zealand but only a few issue stamps. The 100th catalogue number was assigned in 2024. In fact, the stamps history goes back to 1980 when stamps were used for the first winery. These stamps and related items are known as Forerunner issues which are given some attention here also. There are three types of stamp issues with their own assigned numbers-  Wine Post, Antarctica Post and Oceania Postage which does yet appear here.

Official Wine Post numbers are prefixed WP#. Antarctica Post stamps are prefixed AP#.  and Oceania Postage are prefixed ON#.

Some of the history can be gained with the more button on the menu that will take you to the full list of years and the article 'Orange Winebird' and some others. Use this STAMP METRO link or the link below to Jim Kyak's spectacular magazine blog for a broader look through specialist articles.