Farmers are mobilizing to make their voices heard on the benefits of free trade in light of a growing anti-trade sentiment in the U.S.

Grand Traverse Bike Tours and Suttons Bay Bikes already offered guided winery bike tours and special snowshoe events, so there was only one thing left to do - combine the two. The first Vine to Wine Snowshoe Tour is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 27 and Saturday, Feb. 17. Participants on each tour will visit Big Little Wines, Ciccone Vineyards & Winery, Suttons Bay Ciders and L. Mawby Winery.

Ontario is among the world's leading sources for ice wine, with Inniskillin perhaps the most esteemed producer. But on the Niagara Peninsula, as the isthmus between the southern shore of Lake Ontario and the northern shore of Lake Erie is called, and particularly along the Niagara Escarpment, an east-to-west spine of dolomitic limestone that veers past Lake Ontario, the winemakers would like it known that ice wine is the least of it.

In October, Washington accused the Canadian province of British Columbia of giving an unfair advantage to local vineyards by giving their wine an exclusive retail channel in grocery store shelves and cutting out U.S. competition. Australia's complaint, published by the WTO on Tuesday, expanded the U.S. argument, saying that not only British Columbia but also Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, as well as the Canadian government, had policies on wine that broke WTO rules.

Steven Ciobo, trade, tourism and investment minister, this morning announced Australia had taken the first step in commencing formal consultations with Canada regarding measures believed by Australia to impose "arbitrary and disadvantageous restrictions" on the sale of imported wine in Canadian grocery stores, inconsistent with Canada's WTO obligations. The step responded to concerns from the Australian wine industry regarding the Canadian measures, which Ciobo said negatively impacted trade with Australia's fourth largest export market for wine, currently valued at $185 million.

The merger is effective Tuesday, and the companies plan to begin integrating operations, customers, global partners and employees immediately.

"It will still be the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, but it will be the largest competition of wines in North America, instead of America," competition director Bob Fraser told Great Northwest Wine. "We really didn't want to go international, but Canada and Mexico are neighboring countries. It's a natural fit."

Andrew Peller Limited (TSX:ADW.A) (TSX:ADW.B) ("APL" or the "Company") announced today that Mr. Dino J. Bianco had resigned from the Company's Board of Directors effective immediately. Mr. Bianco has accepted the position as President and Chief Executive Officer of K.P. Tissue Inc. and Kruger Paper Products L.P. with significant business interests in the wine and spirits business. The Company has begun a formal search process for a new Director to replace Mr. Bianco. In the interim Mr. Richard Hossack, a current Director, will assume the position of Chair of the Company's Audit Committee.

After 11 years the owners of Harper's Trail are ready to pass the torch

This winter, Matthew Speck is trying out a new cutting-edge sensor and monitoring system. The solar-powered devices -- about the size of a large cellphone -- have GPS locators in them and a connection to a new wireless "internet of things" service that Bell is preparing to roll out commercially

Canada's Brock University is to create the world's first augmented reality, virtual reality and sensory reality consumer wine lab; which will explore how drinkers chose the wine they drink and buy.

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augmented reality, virtual reality and sensory reality - The $2.4-million project also includes expanding the capacity of CCOVI's research winery to include a state-of-the-art fermentation facility, as well as the purchase of several advanced analytical instruments

Announces Keynote Speaker: Paul Wagner, wine educator & historian

The wine world embraces it with the hope that fewer disasters will be experienced this year than what took place in 2017. While the well-publicized wine region fires in California have had a devastating impact, long-term concern is beginning to focus on what is happening to the climate: not just in California, but across global wine growing regions as well.

Spotty weather this past summer may have made it hard to plan an outing to the beach, but it turned out to be ideal conditions for the wineries of Lake Erie North Shore. With 2017 spring temperatures consistently above seasonal, the season started earlier than usual, which can be panic-inducing due to the threat of a late killing frost, and favourable weather through the summer months and into fall resulted in a bountiful crop that local winemakers predict will make for a fine 2017 vintage.

Supported by $1 million in funding from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada's AgriRisk Initiatives program and managed by the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture (NSFA), the project is modeling climate impacts on all aspects of the industry from grape production to wine sales.

Ontario VQA wineries prepare for three weekends of Icewine festivities in January

A promotional video has been launched to introduce the Consortium which represents several Italian food and wine companies to the Canadian market

A rapidly growing industry with a labour shortage led to this program and its 100 per cent placement rate