Ottawa e-Commerce Business and Publishing Connections is organizing this exceptional wine tasting event-Wine Tasting for Ottawa Sales and Marketing Professionals-where Ottawa entrepreneurs, including those who are doing business through the Internet, are invited to talk and exchange ideas about their sales and marketing strategies.

The B.C. Government announced it will spend $100,000 to boost the idea of buying local food and wine. The idea is to educate local restaurants, chefs, sommeliers and consumers on the idea that B.C. Wines, particularly in the Okanagan and Similkameen, go great with the local food in this province.

The Canadian wine industry has experienced a tremendous evolution over the past two decades due in large part to pioneering wineries such as Ontario's Cave Spring Cellars and B.C.'s Quails' Gate Winery.

Canadian ice cider producers, restricted by the state monopoly in Quebec, were out in force at last week's ProWein looking to build their presence in European markets.

A Playbook for the California Wine Fairs coming to Canada in April

Okanagan Crush Pad winery, located in Summerland, British Columbia, is owned by wine industry marketing consultant Christine Coletta and her husband Steve Lornie. As a small, yet inventive winery, OCP is the first custom winemaking facility of its kind in Canada.

Summerhill Pyramid Winery is pleased to introduce Willem Semmelink as its new vineyard manager. Semmelink brings to Summerhill his deep commitment to community and ecology, and a desire to continually improve Summerhill's vineyards for optimal quality and sustainability.

It may be their home turf, but selling wine in Ontario is one of the biggest challenges facing Niagara wineries. And consumers have no idea

Popping the cork on an Ontario wine bottle brings with it $40 of economic spinoff - if you can find one amid thick international competition.

New report estimates impact of province's wine industry; taxes set to rise April 1

The Columbia Valley's most celebrated suds have been recorded for early 2013, and it may not come as much of a surprise who melds the most popular mixture of yeast, barley, hops and malt. Budweiser earned first place for most popular beer.

In your travels this year, instead of going abroad consider the many wine regions and vineyards of Canada. Every province has at least one winery and exceptional scenery that is unique to each region and you have some first class wine destinations.

They're among 35 stores the LCBO will open this year, seven this month alone. Bob Peter, LCBO CEO and president, said at the east Windsor store opening that he expects another 35 store openings next year.

Mr. Aspler emphasized the need to celebrate our land, our terroir. He thinks we are overly diverse and wants us to make terroir-driven wines.

Former Vincor chief Donald Triggs has launched his new winery, the Culmina Family Estate, in British Columbia's Okanagan.

The club complained after the LCBO began demanding that it supply individual members' names, addresses and phone numbers along with each order.

A gated community of million-dollar homes surrounding a world-class golf course is not what you would expect to find in eastern Ontario. It fits more with the lifestyle of the super-rich in California or Florida.The lead Chinese investor has already acquired the site - a winery on 600 acres of land - located a little more than an hour's drive south of Ottawa.

Conducted by an international accounting and research firm - Frank, Rimerman + Co, the research also found that the wine industry annually generates around $1.2bn in federal and provincial tax revenue, around $1.2bn in tourism revenue and creates over 31,000 jobs in the country.

For every bottle of wine produced in Canada there is $31 of domestic economic impact generated in the country. The wine and grape industry is responsible for more than 31,000 jobs in Canada from manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, transportation, research, restaurants and retail.

Ann Cavoukian issued a ruling Friday ordering the LCBO to stop gathering the information and destroy any data collected from clubs so far, following a complaint lodged last year by the Toronto-based Vin de Garde wine club.