The Alberta government’s decision to substantially increase its tax on all wine it sells is riling B.C. winemakers, who are preparing for a showdown. They would like Alberta to exempt them from ...

They would like Alberta to exempt them from this new tax increase because their wines are Canadian. They see the higher tax as an interprovincial trade barrier. Some B.C. winery owners are ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rising US-Europe trade tensions are being closely watched in California’s wine industry. Many fear tariffs ...

For comparison, a B.C. winery selling a $40 bottle of VQA wine through a BC Liquor Store will get back about $33. “It allows them to grow their business, to celebrate B.C., and to grow into the ...

And wine. Just two shelves of it but each bottle carefully chosen, small-production, mostly natural with very moderate alcohol — you know, the kind of wine I like and like to write about. But what do ...

Good wine can create memories, despite the obvious pitfalls leading to the opposite. Perhaps it's of the places where the wine was made, the company with which it was enjoyed and maybe even the ...

The local wine retailer celebrated a grand opening over the weekend at 269 19th Court S., on the ground floor of The Grace apartments. The new shop is a spinoff of D.C.’s former Flight Wine Bar ...

One of the underlying themes of the recent Vancouver International Wine Festival was how B.C. wineries are coping with a 50 per cent loss of their 2023 crop and a 95 per cent loss of the 2024 crop.

B.C. Premier David Eby told BIV in 2020, when he was attorney general, that he was readying to allow restaurants to buy wine directly from private stores but he never actually made the change.

The impetus to chop red tape between provinces, however, is good news for those in B.C.’s wine industry because it is illegal for B.C. wineries to sell wine directly to consumers in most of Canada’s ...

Sipping one of these bright, exuberant B.C. wines will certainly aid in chasing away any lingering winter blues.