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Here are ten favorite wines that I tasted during my recent visit, along with a few notes on what I saw in them.

For most Niagarans, there's one festival that's synonymous with September: Grape & Wine. Known more formally as the Niagara Wine Festival. Each year, the region comes together to celebrate Niagara's grape and wine industry, hailing a new grape grower as Grape King and tasting out the new vintages offered up by Niagara's many world-class wineries. From the annual grand parade through St. Catharines' downtown core to the big party in Montebello Park, the festival brings people together each year. Barry Katzman understands that perhaps better than most, as chairman of the board of the Niagara Grape and Wine Festival for the past nine years, and a member of Niagara's wine industry for 19 years.

A testament to business building, culinary vision and imaginative entrepreneurship

Nova Scotia has a long and rich tradition growing grapes for wine dating back to the 1600s, when we were one of the first areas to cultivate grapes in North America. And, of course, many Canadians know that Canada's wine industry has enjoyed explosive growth and increasingly broad international recognition in recent years. It is worth considering just how rapidly our own indigenous wine industry has grown: from 13 wineries in 2011 to 20 wineries today.

Vintage West specializes in representing family owned and operated wineries focused on producing premium wine.

PM discusses NAFTA during tour of Niagara College teaching winery

Cathy Huyghe writes about wine in British Columbia

The Canadian objectives outline about 10 core NAFTA objectives - from boilerplate trade goals such as cutting red tape, to a push for "progressive" chapters on the environment, labour, gender rights and Indigenous relations.

Today, Ontario is home to roughly 300 breweries, "with Toronto capturing a fair share of that number," says Les Murray, a 21-year veteran of the Canadian beer industry. BeerAdvocate counts at least 50 breweries in the city, many popping up in the last handful of years. Yet despite the rapid growth, Murray characterizes the overall craft beer scene as still in its infancy.

The last panels are being installed on top of a carport at Burrowing Owl Estate winery in Oliver.

The Canadian government has just released priorities for the talks which begin Wednesday and they include a broad desire for four new chapters, and two specific demands: fewer Buy American rules for public contracts and freer movement of professionals.

A Canadian natural wine enthusiast is making waves in California, with wines that improve the longer they are open.

"We don't want to see people deterred from eating out and having a glass of wine with dinner," said Joyce Reynolds, executive vice president of the Restaurants Canada association. "That would be devastating to our industry."

In letter to provincial and territorial ministers, Wilson-Raybould suggests limit of 50 mg per 100mg of alcohol - down from current 80 mg

Net earnings of $8.2 million or $0.20 per Class A share; New Wayne Gretzky Estate Winery and Craft Distillery opened in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

A smokey Pacific Northwest is a concern for eclipse-watchers, but also a smoke-taint concern for winemakers in British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and California.

Ben Smith has been appointed to the role following five years as Flowcrete Americas' National Manager for Canada, during which time he increased Flowcrete's market share, sales and infrastructure in this region.

In July, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ruled the wine could be sold in Canada as a 'product of Israel' due to the terms of the Canadian-Israeli Free Trade Agreement.

Under NAFTA, the Canadian wine industry was allowed to grandfather trade protections to support domestic wines, but had to open up the Canadian market for more American vintages.