By 2010, Nova Scotia will have 13 wineries in its five wine-growing regions the Annapolis Valley, Bear River Valley, LaHave River Valley, Malagash Peninsula and Marble Mountain in Cape Breton.

Pro golfer Mike Weir's proposed Niagara Falls winery has been caught in the middle of a maelstrom of controversy over how the Niagara Parks Commission conducts business.

Canada has removed a 3% tariff on oak barrel imports, a move that will reduce costs to wineries by approximately CAN$30 (or about US$39) a barrel.

Small size is proving no impediment to a growing number of visitors who are discovering the charms of the area's boutique wineries. Growers and promoters, meanwhile, are awakening to its potential as a tourism destination.

Something isn't right in Niagara's grape and wine industry when a major player is saying there aren't enough grapes to make quality VQA wines at a time when Niagara growers had to dump 4,000 tonnes of grapes on the ground because they had no buyer.

Ontario grape growers and wineries have been given more time by Queen's Park to come up with a plan to solve a host of challenges facing the wine industry.

Dried grape winemaking is one of the oldest methods of vinification, going back at least as far as the 8th century B.C. in ancient Greece. Now, many centuries later, the first two wines made from dried grapes in Nova Scotia have been vinified by Bruce Ewert at his L'Acadie Vineyards, in the Gaspereau Valley.

The highly acclaimed 2002 Stratus Red produced in small quantities at Stratus Vineyards in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario was served with the main course of Applewood Smoked Plains Bison.

He refers to the the Winery Association's vision: 20 wineries operating in the province in 20 years and increase annual revenue from $7.2 million to $23 million by 2020.

A three-year research project into drying Nova Scotia grown grapes to enhance the flavour of local wines is meeting with some early success.