The Vancouver International Wine Festival turns 37 next week, and having attended all of them I can say it's a special week for all wine drinkers. I have to say I admire the winery people who make the trek to B.C. and, maybe most of all, the unbridled enthusiasm shown by the public along with their thirst - figuratively and literally - for wine.

A strategy is needed to improve market access and expand food exports, says trade official

One-kilometre rule means all 12 are too close to an existing private liquor store

Consumption of imported wines, particularly from the New World, rose in Canada during 2014 with per capita consumption now outpacing the US.

A new Vinexpo report also says we'll drink less hard liquor by 2018, though tequila will be hot

Premier Kathleen Wynne is putting on hold a plan to set up liquor store outlets in select grocery stores, saying it doesn't make sense to continue with the "isolated plan" as the government considers other changes to Ontario's alcohol distribution system.

IWSR ranked Canada's US$6.1 billion wine market as being the seventh largest in the world

A new Vinexpo report also says we'll drink less hard liquor by 2018, though tequila will be hot

Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government has put a cork on its pilot project for supermarket LCBO kiosks because the planned reform of beer, wine, and spirit sales in Ontario has widened.

B.C. wine sales topped $1 billion in 2014 for the first time and that spending is expected to increase, according to an international alcohol research organization.

A new Vinexpo report also says we'll drink less hard liquor by 2018, though tequila will be hot.

The announced change was a reduction in the second tier "liquor board markup" from 67% under the old formula to 27% under the new one ... a significant change of 40 percentage points

Monday, the World Trade Organization will start hearing the U.S. appeal of its decision that says the labelling legislation violates trade agreements among Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Canada's agriculture minister is threatening tariffs on California wine if the U.S. doesn't repeal restrictive meat-labelling laws costing our farmers billions

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But more and more brewers say they're facing a glass ceiling for their business model. The culprit? The current provincial liquor regime. The main symbol of their frustration, at least from the viewpoint of microbrewers? The Beer Store.

Word that Starbucks plans to begin offering wine and beer in select locations in Canada by the end of the year is drawing mixed reactions from coffee lovers in Charlottetown

Trade officials call proposal to sell B.C. wines at grocery stores unfair

British Columbia is in full compliance with international trade regulations regarding the sale of BC wine in grocery stores, according to the BC Wine Institute.

Although the flagship event is the Sun Peaks Progressive Tasting, we also checked out other events that the festival