P.E.I.'s Progressive Conservative Party has pledged to allow convenience stores to sell beer and wine on the Island. Leader Dennis King couldn't give a timeline as to when the change would happen if his party formed government, but said they would get to work right away if elected.

The BC Wine Institute (BCWI) welcomes the return of April BC Wine Month with a series of wine tastings, educational seminars, promotions and events province-wide to celebrate the quality and diversity of BC wine!

an operating agreement with the owners of Glass House Estate Winery

B.C.'s fast-growing Joseph Richard Group (JRG), which owns pubs, restaurants, liquor stores and the Steveston Hotel is branching into the winery business by agreeing to an operating agreement with the owners of Glass House Estate Winery, owner Ryan Moreno told Business in Vancouver March 26.

Commerce7, a modern winery DTC platform, has added a reservation system to their suite of products. The reservation system gives wineries a convenient solution for creating, scheduling, and managing appointment-based tastings and tours. "Making a reservation and visiting the winery is one of the highest levels of engagement a customer can have with your brand. As we move to create better experiences for end customers, a reservation engine needed to be part of the overall platform"

Winemakers are toasting a pledge in last week's federal budget to loosen interprovincial barriers around wine sales, while also hoping - with an election on the way - that the promise doesn't die on the vine. The Liberals' pre-election budget promised to remove the requirement that alcohol moving from one province to another must be sold or consigned to a provincial liquor authority. Provinces and territories would still to be able to regulate the sale and distribution of alcohol within their borders, the budget said.

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

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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.