Award-winning VQA wines from Ontario wineries have won praise from experts the world over, so now it's time to venture deeper into our own backyard and discover the sources of all that acclaim. Ontario wine country attracts two million visitors each year and the newly released 2015 Wine Country Ontario Travel Guide makes trip planning to Ontario's wine regions exciting and easy. This latest edition boasts 115 wineries, the most ever!
Ontario is promoting the province's wine industry and wine-producing regions to help boost tourism and sales of Ontario's world-class Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) wines.
The Okanagan Wine Festivals Society is now accepting entries for the 2015 British Columbia Wine Awards. The final entry deadline for wineries to participate is September 7th, 2015.
THE Marquette grapevines clinging to a steep, rocky hillside in the southeastern Adirondacks are among a host of new grape varieties that have enabled a boutique wine industry to take root in areas of the US Northeast and Midwest that were previously inhospitable.
Aquilini Investment Group of Vancouver, British Columbia, is in the midst of planting 545 acres of wine grapes in Washington's smallest American Viticultural Area.
A law at the heart of a cross-border dispute faces a key vote in the House of Representatives and, if it's adopted there as expected, it would face a final test in the Senate.
Fox Run Vineyards has begun the installation of a 576 panel, 150 kilowatt system, which is one of the largest solar energy projects to date in Ontario and Yates Counties.
Twenty-three years is a long time in the wine-producing world and nowhere more so than in Canada, which as a major tasting in London's Canada House confirmed, is now a serious producer of interesting, quality wines. Justin Keay reappraises Canadian wine.
The BC Wine Appellation Task Group had discussions at its formal meeting in advance of a wine industry stakeholder online survey. Four major themes have emerged from the consultations so far including; new wine appellations in BC, making certification of origin of grapes mandatory, the future of the BC VQA standard, and streamlining the auditing process.
Ontario's first annual Local Food Report takes a look at sales of local wine at farmers' markets across the province. It says more than one million dollars of V-Q-A wine has been sold at the markets since the province began the two-year pilot project last year.
Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery and Craft Distillery will build a 15,000-square-foot facility on Niagara Stone Road in the heart of Ontario's wine tourism region. It is slated to open in spring 2017