Qantas Wine is an online retailer selling wine, spirits, beer and gourmet food. One of the reasons that it’s so popular among Qantas Frequent Flyer members is the ability to earn Qantas points on wine purchases – often with generous bonus points attached!

Anyone can purchase wine from the Qantas Wine online store, but there are some additional benefits available to premium members including free delivery and the ability to earn more points.

Qantas Wine Premium Membership previously cost $99 or 13,000 Qantas points per year, purchased individually. However, since late 2022, Qantas Wine has stopped selling Premium memberships directly. Instead, there are now several ways to get Qantas Wine Premium Membership for free!

Qantas Wine Premium membership benefits

The main benefits of Qantas Wine Premium membership include:

• Free delivery on all purchases
• Earn 3 Qantas points per $1 spent
• Member-exclusive products and deals
• Invitations to member-only wine tastings and events

Non-members still earn 1 Qantas point per dollar spent with Qantas Wine, and free delivery is offered to all customers on purchases of over $300.

The extra Qantas points could come in handy if you order large amounts of wine, and the free delivery for members could be useful if you place frequent but smaller orders.

When buying from the Qantas Wine store, we recommend paying by credit card rather than using your frequent flyer points to pay. Don’t forget that you can also earn points for your credit card spend if you have a credit card that earns frequent flyer points!

Become a Premium Member for free

There are several ways to become a Qantas Wine Premium Member for free…

Qantas Business Rewards

If you’re a member of the Qantas Business Rewards program, you’ll automatically receive a free Qantas Wine Premium membership when linking your Business Rewards and Qantas Frequent Flyer accounts.

Qantas Business Rewards members also earn an extra 2 Business Rewards points per dollar on Qantas Wine purchases.

Credit card holders

Complimentary Qantas Wine Premium Membership is also offered as a benefit with several Australian credit cards. These include:

• Qantas American Express Ultimate
• Qantas Premier Titanium

The Qantas American Express Ultimate credit card has a $450 annual fee, but it also comes with a $450 annual Qantas travel credit and Qantas Club lounge passes. That’s on top of the complimentary Qantas Wine Premium membership. With an uncapped earn rate of 1.25 Qantas points per dollar, it’s also a top-earner for Qantas Frequent Flyer points.

Other methods

Complimentary membership is given to frequent flyers with Platinum One status, as well as Qantas Points Club members.

If you have Accor Plus membership and Accor ALL Gold, Platinum or Diamond status, you’ll also be automatically eligible for free Qantas Wine Premium membership. Simply link your Accor ALL and Qantas Frequent Flyer accounts.

Qantas Wine offers free premium membership during special promotions from time to time as well, so keep an eye out for promo codes.

Qantas Wine bonus points

The regular, generous bonus points offers from Qantas Wine is one of the reasons that the online alcohol retailer is so popular. Qantas Wine releases new bonus point offers weekly, with large amounts of bonus Qantas Frequent Flyer points typically available when buying a case of wine.

A typical Qantas Wine bonus points offer is around 10,000 Qantas Frequent Flyer points with a $300 case of wine, although you can often find even better offers than this.

During a particularly good promotion, you could even earn 25,000 bonus Qantas points with a case of wine costing $480!

It would cost $369 to purchase 10,000 Qantas top-up points, so this is not only a cheaper way to buy Qantas points but you’ll also get a delicious case of wine!

As a Qantas Wine Premium member, you would also receive 900 regular Qantas points on a $300 case at the higher earn rate of 3 points per dollar. And if you’re a Qantas Business Rewards member with a linked Qantas account, you’d earn 600 points on top of that in your Business Rewards account.

Matt Graham

The editor of Australian Frequent Flyer, Matt's passion for travel has taken him to over 90 countries… with the help of frequent flyer points, of course!
Matt's favourite destinations (so far) are Germany, Brazil & Kazakhstan. His interests include aviation, economics & foreign languages, and he has a soft spot for good food and red wine.

You can connect with Matt by posting on the Australian Frequent Flyer community forum and tagging @AFF Editor.