Nova Scotia's wine industry is worried the province is not acting fast enough to bring in a new policy to replace a special tax break for local growers.
Other municipalities have embraced it. Now, a city councillor says it's time for Vancouver to allow B.C. wine to be sold on grocery store shelves, and checked out at regular cashiers. "We think Vancouverites are ready to have this," said Coun. Mike Klassen. "Vancouver is really just trying to catch up with what all of its neighbours have been doing."
Mission Hill Family Estate is excited to announce the artists for its highly anticipated summer concert series. For the first time, the series includes five concerts of award-winning Canadian and American artists.
"Mack" gained a great deal of infamy when it was discovered that hundreds of wine reviews on her website had been lifted from other websites and wine reviewers. In a new book, she's painting it as, "an online mob of rivals comes for her career."
Ontario's VQA Wine and Grape Industry's newly released 2030 Vision anticipates substantial growth in this important sector of the provincial economy, fueling increases in investment, market share, jobs and related tourism.
Canadians appear to be losing their taste for alcohol, according to findings in a new report that showed beer and wine sales at historic lows. Wine sales decreased by 4 percent from 2021-22, the largest decrease ever recorded by Statistics Canada.
The federal government is set to raise its excise tax rates on alcohol by 6.3 per cent, thanks to legislation passed in 2017, which automatically raises excise tax rates annually by the rate of inflation.
On Saturday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) said they are issuing a recall of certain lots of Louis Latour Pinot Noir after the supplier said glass particles may be present in the wine. The affected product is 375 millilitres, and the CFIA noted that the Pinot Noir's vintage is from 2021.
The initiative saw six winemakers from east of the Welland Canal making wine from Chardonnay grapes grown on the west side of the canal, and six winemakers from the west side making wine from grapes grown on the east side.
Wine lovers can now join the La Maison Osoyoos Larose list to receive library wines from Osoyoos Larose (that go back more than a decade), large format bottlings, and early access to new releases
After 11 years running Canada's first purpose-built custom crush winemaking business successfully, the team is saying goodbye to its original business model by renaming to Haywire Winery.
These upgrades, coupled with Commerce7's existing suite of winery-centric features ensure their users have the tools they need to seamlessly run their everyday operations.
"We can confirm that an unauthorized party embedded malicious code into our website that was designed to obtain customer information during the checkout process."
Think of pinot noir, and you think immediately of Burgundy, the premier region for the wine. Think of other benchmark areas, and you might come up with Oregon's Willamette Valley and New Zealand's Central Otago. Other places, such as Tasmania in Australia and Russian River Valley in California, have also made their name.