Canadian Free Trade Agreement will boost business opportunities and create more jobs

Ontario dominates the Canadian wine scene; while producers like Mission Hill are building recognition for British Columbia's Okanagan Valley,

One of the more appealing aspects of the wine business is global collaboration and exchange of information.

Lydia Tomek, head winemaker at Burning Kiln Winery, isn't one to hold back on her opinions. Not about wine. Not about agriculture. And not about the job her team of women do at Burning Kiln winery near Long Point, on the north shore of Lake Erie.

B.C. Restaurant and Food Services Association opposes idea as 'a lot of red tape and regulation'

A new national milk pricing policy in Canada, following a similar move in Ontario, is drawing criticism from the international dairy community and a call for intervention.

The federal budget ties alcohol excise duty to inflation, makes increase automatic

Top Washington, Oregon and Canadian Winemakers from DeLille, Gehringer, Leonetti, Northstar and Panther Creek Featured

Wine and spirits making may be centuries-old traditions, but the logistics of bringing them to market today require 21st century solutions, from e-commerce to analytics. In addition, advances in science are leading to new production styles and fresh understandings of the human experience through emerging fields like neuroenology, which examines the brain's role in the pleasurability of taste.

In Canada its Quebeckers who are the biggest consumers of Port. Strangely, the production of Port has been dominated by foreign interests, primarily Scottish and English, from a historical perspective. Now it seems its moving toward some ambivalent multinational conglomerate where wine is simply a component of its portfolio.

The Ontario Public Service Employees' Union (OPSEU) - which represents 8,000 LCBO workers - are ready to strike as of 12:01 a.m. on June 26 on the deadline for the new collective bargaining agreement.

The City of Vancouver has voted not to allow a model that is up and running in a number of other communities around the province.

Many small businesses cannot absorb the increased costs and the provincial policy is another example of Ontario-only challenges U.S. restaurants don't have to face.

City council votes to allow more restrictive store-in-store model over wine-on-shelf option

The Mark Anthony Group of Companies today announced an agreement to purchase The Bacchus Group, a fine wine and spirits import and distribution company operating in Western Canada with a history of building premium brands such as Château de la Gardine, Frescobaldi, Grand Marnier, Heineken, Pol Roger Champagne, Symington, and Zuccardi, among others. The transaction is expected to close on June 12th, 2017.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is set to alter its 'Cellared in Canada' wine label designation after receiving complaints from consumers and the Canadian wine industry that the description was "misleading" and "uninformative."

Discover one of the smallest, and oldest, wine growing regions in North America. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is producing noteworthy sparkling wine.

The Canadian Vintners Association (CVA) and Global Wine Database (GWDB Inc.) are proud to announce the largest and most comprehensive online database of Canadian wineries and wines: www.wine411.ca.

Today, it's raking in about $7 million of revenue annually, a mere shot glass of revenue compared to the provincial Crown corporation's $6 billion of total sales. But the fulfillment centre behind the e-commerce service has already moved out of the retailer's Queen's Quay store in downtown Toronto and into a warehouse, and Soleas sees an e-commerce-only distribution centre in the future. He also sees the potential to move other business to the online channel, such as licencing permissions to serve alcohol at events or restaurants.

With an NDP-Green coalition government forming up in British Columbia, a legal and constitutional crunch is looming over Kinder Morgan's $7.4 billion project to twin its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver, tripling its capacity to 900,000 barrels a day.