Santiago Cilley, CEO of Phantom Creek Estates, announced today at the Vancouver International Wine Festival the winery's collaboration with internationally renowned vintner Philippe Melka. Melka will serve as the consulting winemaker for Phantom Creek's red wine program working closely with winemaker Francis Hutt.

Black Hills Estate Winerywinemaker Ross Wise is Canada's newest Master of Wine. Only the seventh to be awarded the honour in Canada, and the fourth in British Columbia.

The Vancouver International Wine Festival announced the 2020 trade competition winners on Friday at Celebrating Excellence: 17th Annual Awards Lunch Featuring France, presented by ContainerWorld. The Celebrating Excellence program is part of the three-day Trade Days Conference; the program honours those professionals who contribute to this region's exceptional wine and food culture. Guests enjoyed a meal prepared by Vancouver Convention Centre executive chef Mark Massicotte, exquisitely matched with a selection of 32 wines from France's iconic wine regions.

Representatives of twenty-nine Canadian wineries from British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario will gather at the Consulate General of Canada in New York on Tuesday, March 24th to showcase over 200 cool climate wines to area media and trade. The event, comprised of a grand tasting and three flash seminars on Riesling, Pinot Noir, and Wild Card Wines, will also include xx wineries seeking importer representation.

According to Wine Intelligence's Canada Wine Landscapes 2020 report, published this week, the recalled wine knowledge index of all Canadian regular wine drinkers has significantly increased in the past 5 years, from 28.4 in 2014 to 35.0 in 2019.

Canadians are becoming more knowledgeable and more careful about wine and alcohol consumption, according to latest Wine Intelligence Wine Landscapes 2020 market report.

Top British Columbia producers include Gehringer Brothers, Hester Creek, Tinhorn Creek and Vanessa Vineyard.

The new Marketing and Vineyard Improvement Programming (MVIP) will assist grape growers by providing cost-share funding for projects to help vineyards across the province adapt to ongoing and emerging growing challenges. The program will also contribute to vineyard investments that implement new technologies to supply high-quality grapes to Ontario wine producers.

Fine Vintage, owned and operated by James Cluer MW, has launched a PR Agency in Canada specializing in the premium wine sector.

Grady took inspiration for The Hermit from a period in French wine history when Bordeaux vintners blended their wines with Syrah from the Rhône Valley for added strength-a practice known as hermitagé. By adding a dollop of Syrah to a Bordeaux-style blend, Grady has created a deliciously fresh and distinctly Okanagan blend.

Although grape berries do produce more wax on their skin when under water-stress, this does not actually decrease the transpirationrate of water through the cuticle.

Pet Matt Landrusco 2019, a sparkling wine made in the pe´tillant naturel style from 100% Touriga Nacional, was harvested on September 12, 2019, fermented in concrete tanks, bottled on September 24 for final fermentation, and disgorged on December 18 with no dosage added.

Blue Grouse Estate Winery has been named (for the second year in a row) as the Best Island Winery by readers of Times-Colonist, Vancouver Island's main newspaper.

Lost Poet, a poetic wine inspired by the processes of writing and winemaking and made in collaboration with NYT Best-Seller, Atticus. This plus and succulent sipper, which carries notes of earth, nutmeg, red cherry, violet are sure to quench any red wine drinkers thirst for something new.

February is a great time of year to visit wine country with fun events and activities happening across the province. Many wineries have outdoor Winter fun with snow-shoeing, ice skating, campfires and snowy treks in the vineyard.

Ticket sales for The Vancouver Wine Festival have been brisk and popular events have been selling out.

The land of Mounties and maple syrup has begun producing serious wine.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched its Research is my business partner campaign on Monday, Jan. 27 detailing how its investment in academic research institutes such as CCOVI, is helping businesses. The relationship between CCOVI and Fielding Estate Winery in Beamsville was an example given, with CCOVI helping the winery grow its sparkling wine sales by 30 per cent.

Brent Crozier was dismissed from his role at the Okanagan Valley winery in December 2018 after allegedly accidentally leaving a tank valve open, leading to the loss of 5,680 litres of Mission Hill Estate Sauvignon Blanc

In 1990, a small group of visionary winemakers, grapegrowers and industry leaders came together to create the British Columbia Vintners Quality Alliance (BC VQA) and the BC Wine Institute (BCWI). The BC VQA standard was created to guarantee consumers they were drinking wine made from 100% BC grown grapes. Today, thanks to the efforts of these pioneers, and those who continue to innovate and push boundaries, BC VQA Wines now dominate wine sales in British Columbia and are finding their way to more places than ever before, winning over both critics and consumers internationally.