The numbers are adding up for the Windsor region's growing wine industry: 1,300 acres of vineyards, 300 employees, dozens of awards and counting

Nothing's going to change until someone in government grasps the need to implement a viable wholesale price system, something which would definitely be on our wish list for this new year. Well, we can hope, can't we?

A new nationwide survey of 1,510 people finds four in 10 men believe there's a lingering stereotype about wine being a woman's drink. Of Canadians age 18 to 24, fully three-quarters consider wine more socially acceptable for older men to drink than guys their own age.

Fermentations!, a micro-make your own wine store held a blind tasting challenge of Fermentations! made wines vs more expensive wines commercially bought from the LCBO.

Magnotta Winery Corporation (TSX:MGN) shares soared Tuesday morning after the company revealed it is being taken private by its founding family in a deal worth just under $16 million. Magnotta stock jumped $1.02 to $2.84, a gain of 56 per cent when trading in the company resumed Tuesday on the TSX.

After mastering the viticulture trade down east, Andrew Shelswell has come back to Ontario and wants to try his talents at running his own operation in the growing South Coast wineries area.

The Ontario wine industry is trying to broaden the choice for Europeans -- and boost sales -- with a little help from Canadian trade commissioners in Europe. On tour in Italy were four Ontario wine makers: Cave Spring Cellars, Flat Rock Cellars, Malivoire and Norman Hardie Winery and Vineyard.

After a cool summer, the wine harvest in the Okanagan is running late

Despite being one of the coolest summers on record, the 2011 BC grape harvest has begun and promises to be another excellent vintage for the Wines of British Columbia.

Relentless rains through September have pushed back the harvest for wineries which are moving quickly with the recent sunny weather to catch up in their vineyards

awarded a total of 24 medals

When Bob Johnson and Petra Flaa chose the slogan "The adventure continues"

Solicitor-General Shirley Bond is considering steps B.C. can take to reduce the effect of an antiquated federal liquor law that makes it an offence to take wine across a provincial boundary.

But interprovincial ban on shipping alcohol remains an impediment to trade

Painted Rock Vineyards, one of the Okanagan's new wineries, has recently signed a distribution agreement with a Chinese wine brokerage in a strategic alliance that will see from 10 to 20 per cent of the winery's production shipped overseas.

Canada's wine makers want more access to consumers, saying strict controls on the distribution of liquor are hindering the development of the industry.

New report says industry loaded with major problems

New report says industry loaded with major problems

Mother Nature hit Nova Scotia right in the breadbasket Saturday. Thunder, rain, high winds and hail hammered parts of the Annapolis Valley, endangering some crops in the area.