Can your winery ship wine to New Jersey?

New Jersey DTC wine shipping requirementsCan a winery ship wine directly to consumers in New Jersey?Yes, with conditions — Remote DTC by an out-of-State winery is lawful, but ONLY for a winery that does not produce more than 250,000 gallons of wine per year and that holds a New Jersey Out-of-State winery license. A winery above the cap has no DTC channel into New Jersey at all. And it is three prerequisites, not one: (1) ABC Out-of-State winery license; (2) business registration with the NJ Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES); (3) an Alcoholic Beverage Tax bond posted with the Director of the Division of Taxation, which must be in place BEFORE the licence is issued. Volume limits apply; the exact cap is in the table below. Sales tax applies. Last verified 2026-08-01 against primary sources; next review due 2026-10-30.

DTC shipping

Limited

Permit required

Yes — and it is three prerequisites, not one: (1) ABC Out-of-State winery license; (2) business registration with the NJ Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES); (3) an Alcoholic Beverage Tax bond posted with the Director of the Division of Taxation, which must be in place BEFORE the licence is issued.

Licence

Out-of-State Winery License (ABC licence class 41; statutory name 'Out-of-State winery license', R.S.33:1-10 subsection 2e)

Application fee

$938 — annual, and it is both the application fee and the renewal fee. Nothing further is payable for the DTC privilege itself.

Bond required

Yes

Volume cap

Not more than 12 cases of wine per year to any person over 21, where a case may not exceed 9 litres — i.e. a volumetric ceiling of 108 litres (28.53 US gallons) per recipient per year, measured in cases of at most 9 L. No monthly sub-limit. No state aggregate cap. Separately, the shipper's OWN production must stay at or below 250,000 gallons per year for the licence to exist at all.

Sales tax

Yes

State sales-tax rate

6.625% — the general New Jersey state rate. There is no elevated alcohol or DTC rate, and neither of New Jersey's two reduced-rate regimes (Urban Enterprise Zone and Salem County, both 3.3125%) is available to a remote out-of-state shipper.

Excise tax

Yes — the Out-of-State winery licensee itself owes and pays the New Jersey alcoholic beverage tax on the wine it delivers into the State. It is not collected from the consumer and is not the carrier's liability.

Excise rate

$0.875 per gallon on wines, vermouth and sparkling wines (including apple cider over 7% ABV). Full New Jersey table, in the regulator's own unit and with every class enumerated: Beer $0.12/gal; Wines, vermouth and sparkling wines $0.875/gal; Apple cider at least 3.2% and not more than 7% ABV $0.15/gal; Liquors $5.50/gal. Measured in wine gallons of 128 fluid ounces, not proof gallons.

Shipment reports

No separate quarterly shipment report exists, and nothing is reported to ABC. DTC volume is reported to the DIVISION OF TAXATION, bi-monthly, as a gallonage line on Beverage Tax Schedule D-W filed with Form R-1-W ('ADD TOTAL DIRECT SHIP TO NJ CONSUMERS'). No itemised consumer list is filed; it must be retained and produced on request.

Record retention

3 years — and it is a genuine retention duty imposed by three separate provisions, not a tax assessment window: (1) invoices, kept at the winery's licensed premises; (2) the complete list of NJ consumers, produced to Taxation on request; (3) a copy of every alcoholic beverage tax report, kept on the licensee's premises.

Product registration

Required — every alcoholic beverage product sold in New Jersey must be brand-registered with ABC before it is sold, with a separate ANNUAL registration for each type and brand. Registration is filed through the POSSE online licensing system.

Approved carriers

New Jersey publishes no approved-carrier list, and no primary source names FedEx or UPS. R.S.33:1-10(2e) says nothing about who may carry a DTC shipment; its only carrier rule is a PROHIBITION on using a common carrier for the separate privilege of distributing to NJ licensed retailers. ABC separately licenses commercial transportation of alcoholic beverages (Transportation licence class 20, $625; Limited Transportation Permit $500; Limited Transportation Insignia $75/vehicle; Transit Insignia $50/vehicle; Transportation License Insignia $30/vehicle), and its Handbook states that 'Transportation of any quantity of alcoholic beverages for commercial purposes without the proper license, permit or insignia is strictly prohibited' — but whether that reaches an out-of-state common carrier delivering a licensed DTC shipment is NOT resolved by any located primary source.

Regulator

Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Department of Law and Public Safety)

Last verified

2026-08-01

Next review due

2026-10-30

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