Being situated as they are, upstate New York wineries get to meet a lot of Canadians at their tasting rooms as well. But per-bottle wine sales to Canadian visitors have always lagged behind sales to other tourists

Commissioned by the B.C. Wine Institute and developed with the help of consultants Honore Comfort, principal of the Artemis Group in Healdsburg, and Steve Burns of O'Donnell-Lane LLC in Glen Ellen, Wine BC 2030 includes five pillars and a dozen strategic recommendations to move the province's industry forward. The core is a vision statement developed over the course of the past six months following a broad consultation that included 30 meetings in 12 locations with 650 members of industry and other stakeholders

Wine and Brandy Market Research report incorporates analysis of major market players. It lays down shares of each player inside market, growth rate and market attractiveness in different end users/regions. Our precise study on Wine and Brandy Market helps a user to make an appropriate decision as a means to expand their market presence and increase their market share.

For some of B.C.'s largest export sectors, a potential disruption of trade with China - the spectre of which has risen after the arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. CFO Meng Wanzhou last December - would be severe if not catastrophic. That is the view from several B.C. officials in industries such as forestry, seafood, wine and international education, where efforts to diversify their markets beyond the United States, as promoted by Ottawa and the provincial government in the last decade, have helped build deep links with China's economy as the latter grew to become Canada's second-largest trade partner.

The first day of the second edition of the event, which is dedicated to the discussion of climate change response measures, especially those related to the wine industry, saw some of the world's foremost wine climatologists host a selection of winery executives, whose companies have significantly contributed to better understanding how the wine sector can mitigate and adapt to climate change through numerous sustainability efforts.

According to the Rabobank report, in the final quarter of 2018 online wine sales across Western Europe accounted for 4% of sales overall (the United Kingdom represented 10% of the total online volume). The 4% growth e-commerce is impressive on its own, but the report also says that between 2010-2017 Western European wine consumption fell by 5% yet e-commerce increased by 66%.

IronGate.Wine, a leading online retailer of private, rare wine collections, is pleased to announce that they have completed testing and will immediately begin accepting Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as payment methods for their extensive online inventory of vintage wine.

The Vancouver International Wine Festival announced the 2019 trade competition winners on Friday at Celebrating Excellence: 16th Annual Awards Lunch Featuring California Wines, presented by ContainerWorld.

The Vancouver International Wine Festival Bacchanalia gala dinner and auction, attended by over 400 guests, raised over $229,000 benefitting charitable partner Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. The gala, presented by Blakes, kicked off the 41st annual VIWF, at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver with a spectacular evening of wine and food, topped by a thrilling live auction.

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits of Canada -a division of Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits-today announced the launch of a new wine division focused on growing the Company's wine business across the Canadian market. The division includes a dedicated wine sales team, highly trained to sell and represent wine suppliers to on-premise and retail customer accounts.

While companies have started popping up across the country since October 17, 2018, with dreams of a flourishing cannabis tourism industry, conducting business hasn't been as easy as planned thanks to rules about the promotion of the drug. The Canadian Marketing Association hopes that restrictions will be reduced over the coming years that will allow for cannabis tourism to be similar to wine tours.

The CPTPP is a free trade agreement between New Zealand and 10 other countries in the Pacific region. Canada, Australia, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Viet Nam, and New Zealand have ratified the trade agreement, with four countries (Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, and Peru) yet to do so. Goods and services exported to CPTPP countries totalled $24.4 billion, and imports totalled $25.2 billion. New Zealand is close to a trade balance with the CPTPP countries as a group.

Making a red blend is sort of like dressing for winter - you beat the chill by wearing layers of clothing for insulation, breathability and wind resistance. At the winery, you use different grapes to create a finished product with power, harmony, balance and style. But it's all about getting the amounts right.

The fresh, lively cabernet franc has been gaining ground on its popular sibling since 2014.

California was once again in the spotlight last week at the Vancouver International Wine Festival, one of North America's largest consumer and trade events for the wine industry. But it did so in a vastly different economic environment than when it was event's featured region six years ago. Today, trade issues are on the rise abroad and growth at home has hit a plateau.

Developed as part of a research programme, the new 360m2 facility will help farmers and winemakers improve their production techniques and take full advantage of the province's unique soil and growing conditions.

Eric Pateman is known as one of the world's top experts on culinary tourism and is recognized as Canada's leading ambassador of Canadian cuisine. In addition to working with countless artisan food companies, farmers, restaurateurs, fisherman, foragers and local purveyors to create culinary narratives, he also is a chef himself with a background in finance.

Vancouver's annual wine lovers' delight, but dishwashers' nightmare, is well underway. The 41st Vancouver International Wine Festival is in full swing around town. It's a great week for wine and food lovers, but not so much for those who have to deal with 82,000 wine glasses by the time the festival wraps up on Sunday. To say nothing of countless plates, cups and cutlery.

The Bacchanalia Gala Dinner + Auction, presented by Blakes, kicked off the 41st Vancouver International Wine Festival on February 23 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver with a spectacular evening of wine and food, topped by a thrilling live auction.

Mt. Boucherie Estate Winery is proud to announce the appointment of Jeff Hundertmark as their new Head Winemaker. Having been the Winemaker at sister-winery Rust Wine Co. since January 2018, Jeff will now be overseeing winemaking operations for both properties and is recruiting a Winemaker to oversee day-to-day operations at Rust in Oliver.