This year's highly anticipated International Festival Tastings will take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre from February 25 through February 27 showcasing more than 700 wines from 14 countries.

After its first debut in Toronto last year, Vinitaly International is now soon to return to one of the most important and, at the same time, most complex markets in the world on the occasion of Canada's premier wine show in Vancouver, the Vancouver International Wine Festival (20-28 February 2016).

Okanagan Crush Pad (OCP) is expanding its market presence beyond British Columbia with concentrated efforts in Western Canada, while at the same time, making its first foray into Europe, in March 2016.

Three years of trials with a polyvinylamine membrane have produced positive results for Dr. Dick Jones, a former professor of pulmonary medicine from the University of Alberta who has lived in Naramata since 2005

Grocers will not be allowed to offer wine for less than $10.95.

Ontario grocers will not be allowed to offer wine for less than $10.95.

The province plans to auction off six such licences in April, and an additional 12 in the future. The licences would allow their holders to sell 100 per cent made-in-B.C. wines on grocery store shelves.

John Sandor has been appointed to the position of Estate President of Quails' Gate Winery in the Okanagan Valley. John joins after most recently being Senior VP of Sutton Place Hotels and Sandman Signature properties. With over 35 years managing luxury properties John will take over day to day operations at Quails' Gate.

In this frame of work and funding, UBC partnered with KEDGE Business School, one of the most renowned European B-Schools in the area of Wine & Spirits Education. The two Academic Partners started with creating a common "task force" and they are now getting ready to launch the 3rd Annual UBC/KEDGE Wine Leaders Forum in April 2016 in Okanagan Valley.

Liquor Depot Partners with Drizly to Bring On-Demand Delivery Platform to Edmonton

Quails' Gate is one of the Okanagan Valley's foremost family owned and operated winery. The Stewart family opened Quails' Gate in 1989 and now produces 70,000 cases annually

Colio Estate Wines today announced that it has purchased Thornbury Village Cidery Inc. of Canada Inc., located in Thornbury Village, Ontario, a leading producer of award-winning, premium Ontario craft ciders and beer. The deal will enhance Colio Estate Wines portfolio through winning entries in the fast growing Ontario craft cider and beer categories.

Canada's Okanagan Crush Pad winery will make its European début at ProWein Dusseldorf.

Washington wine grape growers should be looking to New Zealand as a model for premium wine production - and there's opportunity for growth. That's according to Greg Livengood, a global wine and grape broker for Ciatti Co. in San Rafael, California.

"The interest is certainly there," Sousa said Wednesday, when asked about the possibility of adding wine to the list of items shoppers can pick up at the supermarket.

Nine decades since Prohibition ended, Ontario's cabinet is poised to lift its longstanding ban on new wine outlets.

Brock University's Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute issued a warning to Ontario wineries to be ready to take whatever precautions they can.

Shoppers in supermarkets globally are buying more Rioja, including Reserva, Gran Reserva and Crianza variants, growing the wine's value sales by 5.33 per cent, and volume sales by 1.13 per cent, TheDrinksBusiness.com reports.

New information provided by the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch's data team reveals the top 30 products sold by the branch in each of 28 regional districts in B.C. in 2015, and it brings to light some surprising trends across the province. -

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