If Canada is known internationally as a wine-producing country, it's probably for the superb ice wines grown on Ontario's Niagara peninsula, brands like Inniskillin and Jackson-Triggs. That's about to change. Whole Foods three years ago ran a month-long promotion of premium Canadian table wines, specifically eight wines from BC's spectacular Okanagan Valley in a promotion co-sponsored by the BC Wine Institute.

Amid the havoc wrought elsewhere by global warming, Annapolis Valley vineyards have flourished as temperatures have moderated.

Despite dire implications elsewhere, Nova Scotia grape growers have branched out beyond hardy North American varieties and begun planting chardonnay and riesling-all thanks to global warming

Fruit supplier to Niagara's best wineries, Warren Saunders has spent half a century watching Ontario wine evolve from Baby Duck to Bachelder

Vancouver lawyer Shea Coulson says five B.C. wineries will argue as interveners in the case stemming from a 2012 incident when police fined a man who entered New Brunswick from Quebec with 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor.

The dispute is over where imported wine can be displayed in British Columbia's grocery stores.

Court documents claim Daniel Macduff, a retired civil servant from the Quebec City area, booked a Sunwing Airlines flight to Cuba last November that advertised a "champagne service." But instead of a glass of high-quality bubbly from France's famous Champagne region, Macduff was served a cheap sparkling wine, his lawyer said.

"We started with that experiment and then the smoke turned up throughout the summer."

The United States says it wants Canadian province British Columbia to stop discriminating against imported wine through its regulation of allowing only provincial wine to be sold on regular grocery store shelves.

Mr. Horgan, who in the past has voiced support for bringing existing operators on board, seemed to suggest on Tuesday that B.C.'s robust marijuana industry means the province is already well-positioned to begin legal retail sales by the federal government's July 1 target.

Wineries in the province are expanding and awards are starting to roll in. New Brunswick now boasts 10 wineries and over 100 acres of vineyards.

The wine dispute -- initiated in the last days of the previous administration -- comes as negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico try to hash out a revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement

Oh, what a summer we've had in the B.C. wine industry.

Quebec follows the lead of Ontario and New Brunswick

'We are only just beginning to discover what our wines can taste like, never mind what they are supposed to taste like'

A ripe for the picking rundown of what's new on the vines.

A pioneer in the BC wine industry, he has been awarded with innumerable accolades and established many firsts in the province, including the first to release a series of single vineyard designated wines.

The second phase of the project would improve Boucherie Road between Stuart and Ogden Roads.

John Peller, Chairman & CEO of Andrew Peller Limited, commented "We are excited to confirm the Tinhorn Creek acquisition as well as the closing dates for Black Hills and Gray Monk Estate Winery.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has welcomed Hush Heath's trade deal with Canada following news that its sparkling wine has achieved a listing with the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO.)