"It was a major undertaking," von Mandl admits. "Really intense, and then fired up by my spending those days in northern Italy seeing and tasting the difference, tasting organic and biodynamic wines around the world, and also understanding the challenge. We had to have a plan to make it happen without losing a percentage of our minds-and our crops-along the way."
The Wyse family looks forward to the Kruger family's continued involvement in the business, with oversight from Wild Goose Founder, Adolf Kruger's youngest son, Roland Kruger, and Roland's nephews Nikolas Kruger (Winemaker) and Alex Kruger (Vineyard Supervisor).
The Lanoraie property was built up from abandoned land purchased in the early 1980s and now features 5 hectares of grapes including the province's first commercially planted Pinot Noir and Cabernet Severyni varieties, alongside modern American hybrid vines like Marquette and Frontenac.
Ekhosoft is pleased to announce Ekho Cloud, a cloud-based operational performance management software solution for consumer packaged goods and food and beverage manufacturers.
The Biden administration is coming under pressure to ease travel bans for international tourists that were originally put in place to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oliver Twist Winery owner Gina Fernandes Harfman wanted to do something sensational for the winery's 15th anniversary.
So, she changed the name of the winery on Oliver's Black Sage Bench to Nostalgia Wines.
As a first batch, Blue Grouse is releasing only 68 cases of Wolf & Grouse that will be available first to wine club members and then to visitors of the tasting room in Duncan. A second batch of 200 cases is in the works for early 2022.
For the first time, e-commerce capabilities have been built into QuiniWine.com. The new functionality supports Quini's plans for new services the company expects to announce during the next quarter.
Non-essential travel between the U.S. and Canada will be banned for another month despite mounting pressure from businesses to ease Covid-19 travel restrictions.
Buchler operates the 20-acre Park Hill Vineyard in a small valley north of Oliver where climate, soil and growing conditions have created a winning combination for certified organic Chardonnay, Gamay Noir, Gewürztraminer, Marechal Foch, Pinot Noir and Riesling grapes, among others.
Alcohol demand at U.S. bars and restaurants is rebounding faster than Molson Coors Beverage Co. had been expecting. As a result, the maker of Miller High Life beer and Vizzy hard seltzer is ahead of internal shipping forecasts in its home market, its top executive said.
Trudeau's government has signaled it could start easing COVID-19 restrictions at the Canada-U.S. frontier on June 22 if the country's vaccination campaign stays on its current trajectory.