The Wine Post, also known as New Zealand Wine Post, is a privately owned postal service in New Zealand. It is operated by Weston Winery New Zealand, which is the World's Most Southern Winery and acts as its only post office. It began issuing its own postage in 1990. It is one of the many independent posts of New Zealand which has a deregulated postal environment.
The Wine Post currently issues definitive stamps and commemorative stamps for Oceania and Antarctica, which are for its postage and that of anyone else in the world to and from Antarctica- mainly the South Pole Station and McMurdo Base. The Wine Post stamps are for their domestic and international stamps for their own winery. A catalogue is published for collectors of the postage stamps at the on-line stamp shop. A printed color version is available for sale from Lulu.com as well as a downloadable file.
The Wine Post is what is called a local post, as are all the others, and is completely independent of the State mail carrier. It has its own postmarks and system of delivery within New Zealand and abroad. The cost of the postage is somewhat higher than 80 cents for a letter because of this.
However, the postage stamps from this and other private posts are popular with collectors because of the small numbers of issues produced each year and the low numbers of stamps printed.