California is the focus wine growing area this year and over 165 wineries from around the world will be in town to chat and let you sample their best.

Vancouver International Wine Festival to highlight California as theme region

A significant new viticulture research project on Vancouver Island is boosting the tiny region's sense of self, but the results could help growers across British Columbia understand how their vines will respond to climate variation. The two-year project focuses on managing the physiological ripeness of Pinot Gris, the most widely planted white wine grape in B.C.

Responses to shifts in consumers preferences for low-and no-alcohol beverages, outside of soft drinks, is evident in the establishment of "dry bars" across the U.S., the U.K. and Ireland, and in expanded bar menus to include artisan spirit-free drinks.

Reduced alcohol winemakers could be looking at a bumper year in 2019. A new report is forecasting demand increases for low to no alcohol wines of almost 18% in the US, 7% in the UK, 4% in Germany and 20% in Spain. But it's the brewers who look set to gain.

"We're breathing a sigh of relief, that's for sure," said general manager and winemaker Val Tait of Bench 1775 Winery in Naramata. "I would have pulled the pin a lot earlier, my cutoff is pretty well the middle of January and I've never had a season where we didn't hit ice wine before the middle of January.

It will also be training employees on how to take "safe actions" during thefts and how to be a credible witness to the crimes. The LCBO statement also says it will be implementing new "industry-leading" technology, although it has not provided further details on what that technology is.

Icewine is a unique sweet wine made from grapes that have been left to freeze naturally on the vine. The taste is like liquid gold.

Quini® (www.quiniwine.com), the leader in B2B near real-time wine sensory data and technology solutions, today announced QUINI OMNIBUS™. The accessible consumer wine tasting data and analytics dashboard solution enables large, medium and small wine producers, retailers and distributors, to access, analyze and share deep, rich, localized wine consumer and product insight, quickly and cost effectively.

As most of the Okanagan Valley hides inside from the frigid temperatures, some wait all year for the cold. Winemakers are finally getting the cold temperatures needs to make their ice wine and at Summerhill Pyramid Winery things kicked off Sunday night.

The research study is a highly useful tool in the hands of market players that allows them to effectively assess the global Ice Wine market and know where they stand in the industry in terms of revenue or sales growth. It comprehensively evaluates the global Ice Wine market with different perspectives for the purpose of providing a detailed, informative, and accurate analysis of regional growth, competition, market segmentation, and other important aspects.

Court documents say the corporation that produced, marketed and sold wine from a Beamsville-based winery, which closed somewhere around April 2018, owes the Masters champion golfer about $2.2 million and RBC about $4.3 million.

British Columbia produces a mere drop of the world's total wine production, and less than 5% of this makes it outside Canada. Can the cream of the BC crop stand up against top wines from around the world? Michaela Morris reports...

Sixty-eight per cent of Ontarians support the government's decision to keep liquor stores open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, according to a new poll by Abacus Data.

Golfer Mike Weir and broadcaster Bob McCown, two of the best-known names in Canadian sports, are in a court battle over Mike Weir Wine Inc., a failed winery. Mr. McCown, who hosts the afternoon drive-time radio show Prime Time Sports in Toronto, owns the winery - and the winery owes Mr. Weir $2.2-million. According to court documents, the winery also owes $4.3-million to Royal Bank of Canada.

Vineyards in Kelowna were hoping to harvest the Canadian classic in December, when some South Okanagan wineries began harvesting, however temperatures have not dropped to the required -8 C.

Minister Lawrence MacAulay of Canada and Secretary Victor Villalobos Arambula of Mexico will join U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue for the forum's keynote address on February 21. The plenary session will mark the first time the three ministers have spoken jointly at a public forum since the signing of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in November 2018.

Event tickets are valid all four days of the event, which takes place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. The self-guided wine pairings begin at the first location of your choice where each guest will receive their tasting ticket and a keepsake wine glass. Each ticket includes three tastes of wine and the sample pairing at each participating winery along the wine trail.

January 24, 2019 - Quini® today announced QUINI DATA™, the industry's first self-serve consumer sensory and attitude data, and analytics wine intelligence solution for wineries and wine retailers.

What I love about the best Cabernet Franc wines from Canada's Niagara region is how lush and dry they taste straight out of the bottle. These single-grape wines also have a complexity and finesse which makes them an absolute pleasure to drink now or over the next several years.