One of the biggest signs that Canadian wine culture has evolved is our reaction to pink wine.

Many winery owners welcome visits from wine bloggers, and Taste Camp - conceived by wine editor Lenn Thompson in 2009 - combines opportunities for bloggers to socialize with a weekend-long tour that hits a different Eastern winemaking region each year.

The wines - 2012 Sparkling Gamay Noir and 2012 Sparkling Chardonnay - are sourced from different vineyards in British Columbia with different micro-climates but made identically.

Tyler Harlton took quite a circuitous route to making great wine in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley.

Government involvement in British Columbia wine has created measurable success

It's the current war cry by the voices of those who know. A plea and a calling to Canadian growers and winemakers to plant and bottle more Gamay Noir.

On May 16, over one hundred wines from several dozen Canadian wineries were on display in London at a trade and media tasting at Canada House, Canada's High Commission on Trafalgar Square.

There were fewer than 50 Canadian wines entered in this year's competition. I believe that the CMB would be a great opportunity for Canadian wine producers to increase the level of awareness internationally of the evolution and quality of the wines we are growing.

If Canada is to be viewed as a serious wine-producing nation, producers must participate in more international events and competitions to raise awareness and interest

Among top-flight draws bringing tourism to Niagara's wine country are the Niagara Grape and Wine Festival's marquee events - the wine, new vintages and ice wine festivals.

Bulgaria will start exporting local wines to Canada. Connoisseurs from Ottawa took a liking to our wines during the second Balkan Wine Forum, which took place in the Bulgarian capital on May 16-19, informed organizer Galina Niforu.

Last year helped wineries recover from two short vintages. The 2012 harvest easily broke the record of 22,722 tons set in 2011, however that figure is largely the result of more available acres planted.

For the fourth consecutive year, British Columbia wines performed brilliantly at a top California wine competition.

British Columbia winegrape-growers enjoyed a record harvest and a return to normal in 2012, according to the province's annual crop report.

How do judges pick out the best wines? Gord Stimmell walks readers through the 19th tasting for the Ontario wine awards. Reassuringly, blind-tasting is the foundation of the judgements.

It was like Armaggedon in LCBO stores across the province on Thursday and that's exactly what the spin masters wanted to see. Everyone waited with bated breath while being told "talks are continuing in hopes of averting the strike, but if no deal is reached then the strike is on as of 12:01 a.m. Friday." Yikes.

Long lines of anxious drinkers formed in liquor stores across Ontario today ahead of the Victoria Day long weekend as a midnight strike deadline for store workers looms.

Award-winning vintages 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.

Canada is re-introducing itself to the world by way of an essential and comprehensive tasting hosted today by The Canadian High Commission at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London.

Canada's wineries are becoming increasingly focused on specific grape varieties as the country's wine industry matures.