The Canadian company uses fermentation to make polyphenol-rich blends that can enhance flavor, reduce salt, block bitterness and extend shelf life, and plans to take its tech worldwide.

As the wine touring season kicks off, this is a definite destination winery in the South Okanagan

Calls to allow drinking wine, beer in parks have grown because of the pandemic

Wine brand Spade & Sparrows and major US wine producer Don Sebastiani & Sons announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership where Don Sebastiani & Sons will act as producer and North American sales representative for the brand. After seeing retail success in Canada and the direct-to-consumer channel in the US, the purpose of this partnership is to ensure that this highly sought-after wine brand is broadly available throughout North American retail.

Wineries in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia are learning that damage may not be evident for months after being hit by wildfires last summer. Could anything have been done over the last year to prevent or remedy such a situation? Three companies -- Agrology, Purfresh Wine, and UPL -- discuss the topic of smoke taint.

Constellation Brands' $4 billion investment in Canada's biggest marijuana producer remains a long way from paying off. Canopy Growth Corp has made a fourth-quarter loss that was far bigger than analysts had predicted, blaming stiff competition and knocking a further 15% from company's shares, further denting the value of Constellation's investment.

Bad weather conditions in the EU hampered wine production in 2021 but the southern hemisphere recorded record highs in production: balancing out wine production figures at a global level.

A Canadian company has asked the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council to overrule a Central Washington county and allow a 470-megawatt solar-power plant on farmland.

Members share best practices that lessen climate change impacts in vineyard and winery operations so that the global wine industry can act collectively to decarbonize, applying direct solutions that avoid purchasing carbon offset credits.

The man who built Black Hills Estate Winery and elevated one of B.C.'s first ultra-premium wines has shifted into a retirement that will include some consulting work.

For 30 years they had been coming up to the Okanagan from the Lower Mainland to taste and enjoy the local wines.

The national grapevine germplasm repository project, led by Sudarsana Poojari, Senior Staff Scientist at Brock University's Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI), is funded by the Ontario Grape and Wine Research Inc. (OGWRI), Canadian Grapevine Certification Network (CGCN-RCCV) and Brock University.

Talk about a fun guy -- Dawson Creek-born Jinx Pollard-Flamand has discovered two species of fungi in his Master's thesis, which are proving to be highly effective against grapevine trunk disease, a major threat to orchards and wine producers across the province.

"Well, it was a chain reaction of events that led us to open a winery on the Naramata Bench," said Joel Chamaschuk, who owns and operates Chain Reaction with his wife, Linda.

is laying off 250 people, about a 10th of its staff, in a cost-cutting plan to save the company $100-million to $150-million within 12 to 18 months in order to reach profitability.

This year, 14 wineries are producing a Tidal Bay, Nova Scotia's appellation wine.

"We are thrilled to be back to events and doing the important work of putting our B.C. wineries on the stage they so well deserve," said Morris.

The sale includes a 11-acre site in the Okanagan's Golden Mile sub-appellation in Oliver that includes the winery, a log-cabin tasting room, an older house and about nine acres of planted vineyards.

"It's ridiculous, it's offensive and probably illegal."

"We are just looking to growing the brand and being a proud local VQA product hopefully expanding with the LCBO, other great Canadian provinces and crossing borders in the next year or so," says Meyers.