Archive for category: Canada

Deregulation fever

Canadian politics have turned radical, with cannabis now legal and the biggest alcohol retail monopoly under threat. What might be the effect on the world’s third most attractive wine market? Having spent years as one of the most reliable,…

Wine or weed?

Canadian regular wine drinkers are engaging more with the category, and say they don’t care about soon-to-be-legal cannabis. However evidence from elsewhere suggests that alcohol and cannabis are substitute goods. Wine in Canada has become…

Bubbles on the rise in Canada

Sparkling wine in the Canadian market seems to be on the rise as imported wines from Italy, Australia and New Zealand top the list and domestic sparkling enjoys a renaissance Are the Canadians developing an appetite for fizz? The short…

Wine and consumer options growing in Canada

Legislative changes in alcohol and cannabis are likely to shape the wine industry in Canada in the coming year as much as long-running consumer trends Canada crosses six time zones and occupies more land mass than the United States to…

Awakenings

How will wine consumers respond to the liberalising retail laws in Canada?

Best of both worlds

Cultural differences mean that there's more to Canada's wine market than meets the eye

Winning on the home front

Canadian wine needs to engage better with Canadian consumers

Canada: worlds of difference

How to deal with the diversity of Canada's 13 provincial wine markets

The reform shop

Change is afoot in Canadian wine retailing as Ontario wrestles with plans to restructure its liquor distribution laws