The Company's wholly-owned subsidiary has entered into a Marketing Agreement with SHOP.CA for SHOP.CA to provide an online marketing platform for the wines offered for sale by WineOnline under license. No other wine manufacturer or distributor will be given an online marketing platform on the SHOP.CA e-Commerce site.

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

A new wastewater treatment system has saved a Canadian winery $4,000 annually on sewer surcharges and removed as much as 97 percent of biochemical oxygen demand from the winery's wastewater, Storm Water Solutions reports.

The Wine Institute advocates on behalf of 1,000 California wineries and businesses, according to its January 21 letter to the premier.

"Wine Institute requests that the initiative be withdrawn or modified to allow for equal access of all wines at B.C. grocery stores."

Government is feverishly working to alter its formerly sacred legislation permitting the movement of licences from around the province to allow grocery stores to acquire or engage in partnerships with those who have licences to somehow make the grocery store model work. They could have issued grocery store licences, but that would have made too much sense.

The major breweries' political donations are small beer when it comes to influencing the future of the private Beer Store monopoly, warns Premier Kathleen Wynne.

As part of its activities at Unified, Renaissance Yeast will be offering free trial sample packs of its Vivace and Andante hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-preventing wine yeasts to Unified attendees. All the company's yeasts are naturally developed and non-GMO.

t will proceed with its previously announced plans to permit inter-provincial DTC shipment of wine to consumers in that province

A former notary public in British Columbia has been fined $33-million after a hearing panel concluded she conducted a $100-million Ponzi scheme fraud involving false claims about raising financing for a high-end local winery.

As recently as a few months ago, it was hard to imagine anything successfully smashing through the status quo of Ontario's liquor retail regime. But things are suddenly looking up. Chris Selley and NOW's Jonathan Goldsbie discuss the sudden and potentially seismic shift in public sentiment.

With an attendance over 15,000, the London Wine and Food Show moves into a new threshold and will help attract international exhibitors to take part in events in the District.

The events kick off on Jan. 9 at the Niagara Fallsview Casino that will play host to the first Icewine Festival that started it all in 1995, the Niagara Icewine Festival Xerox Gala. Wine enthusiasts, foodies, and music lovers unite to experience several Icewine related events, from formals, to outdoor Ice village settings, intimate winery settings, and vineyards covered in a winter wonderland.

Making it easier for Ontarians to buy booze is popular and makes more money for the government, but it'll probably kill some people. Ottawa's top public-health doctor is frustrated that nobody talks about the second part. It never comes up when the province boasts about letting wine be sold at farmers' markets, or promoting craft breweries.

The first grapes picked in 2015 were from last year's vintage but, for Ontario's ice wine makers, it's worth the wait.

The latest obstacle is a shake-up in B.C. liquor regulation that will see a new markup structure kick in April 1.The new markup structure will establish a single wholesale price for all retailers and see the per-liter markup shift to 89% on the first $11.75 of value and 67% on any additional value.