Announces Keynote Speaker: Paul Wagner, wine educator & historian

The wine world embraces it with the hope that fewer disasters will be experienced this year than what took place in 2017. While the well-publicized wine region fires in California have had a devastating impact, long-term concern is beginning to focus on what is happening to the climate: not just in California, but across global wine growing regions as well.

Spotty weather this past summer may have made it hard to plan an outing to the beach, but it turned out to be ideal conditions for the wineries of Lake Erie North Shore. With 2017 spring temperatures consistently above seasonal, the season started earlier than usual, which can be panic-inducing due to the threat of a late killing frost, and favourable weather through the summer months and into fall resulted in a bountiful crop that local winemakers predict will make for a fine 2017 vintage.

Supported by $1 million in funding from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada's AgriRisk Initiatives program and managed by the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture (NSFA), the project is modeling climate impacts on all aspects of the industry from grape production to wine sales.

Ontario VQA wineries prepare for three weekends of Icewine festivities in January

A promotional video has been launched to introduce the Consortium which represents several Italian food and wine companies to the Canadian market

A rapidly growing industry with a labour shortage led to this program and its 100 per cent placement rate

Small BC Wineries hope a Supreme Court decision will be made in their favour, allowing for cross-Canada, direct-to-consumer wine sales.

The $6.2 billion in weed Canadians consume a year is about two-thirds the $9.2 billion beer market and close to wine's $7 billion tally

Residents of Tuktoyaktuk should soon be able to bring an unlimited supply of beer and wine into the community after a plebiscite Monday in favour of lifting restrictions in place since 2009.

This is a real problem to Okanagan wineries, many of which have long lists of loyal customers from other provinces, especially Alberta. These customers buy wine and carry it back home. Some sign up for wine club memberships, one of the main benefits being several shipments of wine to your doorstep each year. Technically, that's illegal between most provinces.

Generation X leads the way in current consumption of B.C. wine, as more wine drinkers are enjoying local varietals

The two-night event saw over 600 guests flow through the Village Centre Mall to sample the handcrafted wines, making it the best attended Big Reds Festival to date.

Minhas family brings liquor expertise to Saskatchewan

The group, which will invest about €6.5 million of this total, says that 24% will be invested in the US - the main export destination of national wines. The US registered a 9.2% annual growth in volume of Portuguese wine imports between 2011 and 2016.

Alongside bottles of vodka, whisky and rum, marijuana will soon be stocked on the shelves of liquor stores in Nova Scotia, Canada

Prince Edward Island will sell weed in standalone stores run by its liquor commission and online, the province announced on Thursday

Alternatives such as sobering centres and managed alcohol programs exist elsewhere in Canada

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke conducted a review of 27 monuments established by former presidents over more than two decades.

New Brunswick contends that overturning the $292.50 ticket Gerard Comeau received for bringing 14 cases of beer across the provincial boundary would mean 'an end to Canadian federalism'