British Columbia's wine industry has come a long way over the last two decades. At the signing of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement in 1988, Canada's most western province had only seven commercial and seven estate wineries. B.C. now boasts 97 wineries, with licenses pending for 14 others. More than half are members of the British Columbia Wine Institute (BCWI), an organization that the provincial government established in 1990 to create an internationally competitive wine industry. An imp...