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January 29, 2014: BC Winery Ownership Trends
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January 22, 2014: Building A Canadian Wine Culture
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Building a Canadian Wine Culture
Tonight is a special 2 hour #BCWineChat with our neighbors across the country #ONWineChat. Join us either from 7-8pm or 8-9pm (normal time)–or both!–to discuss how we can build a Canadian Wine Culture in Canada. Feel free to use either hashtag in your tweets.
What is Canadian wine culture? If there is no such thing how do we start to build one? Why would we want to build one?
Isn’t it time Canada drinks more of its own wine? We think it is!
January 15, 2014: Test Your #BCWine Knowledge
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Think you know a lot about our wine industry in BC? Join us this Wednesday to find out. If you are new to the world of BC wine you will, no doubt, learn a great deal on this week’s #BCWineChat. Come with lots of questions, participate or just watch the hashtag feed!
January 8, 2014: My #BCWine New Year’s Resolution
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My #BCWine New Year’s Resolution
Let us know what’s in your plans with respect to BC Wine in 2014!
December 4, 2013: Wine in BC Grocery Stores
Wine in BC Grocery Stores
On November 28, 2013 BC’s Parliamentary Secretary, John Yap and the Ministry of Justice announced that grocery store liquor sales will be recommended for BC. This comes as one of seventy changes to be proposed under the recent Liquor Policy Review the BC government underwent in Fall of this year. The remaining changes will not be announced until 2014.
Consumers spoke loud and clear during the review, but how this looks once enacted is still speculation. If you read the press release (thanks to www.winelaw.ca website) you find that the government is proposing maintaining the same cap on licenses in the province. How will this be possible? What impact will this change have on LRS stores, private wine stores, BC restaurants and BC wineries?
Bring your insight, your questions and your comments to tonight’s #BCWineChat from 8-9pm on Wednesday, December 4, 2013.
November 27, 2013: Open Forum
November 20, 2013: Holiday Gifts for the BC Wine Lover
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Holiday Gifts for the BC Wine Lover
Of course BC wine is great all through the year but it also makes a wonderful local product to give away during the holidays. Join us with your suggestions and questions tonight! Christmas is only 5 weeks from today!
November 13, 2013: Harvest 2013 in the Rear View Mirror
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Harvest 2013 in the Rear View Mirror
It’s one of the favourite chats of the year…find out about the harvest that just wrapped up. Some wineries have been done bringing in the grapes for a while and some are just finishing, but it’s still a great time to find out how the vintage fared.
Weather, trial and tribulations, successes and surprises. We’re talking about all things BC Wine and all things Harvest 2013.
November 6, 2013: Winter Wine Events
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Winter Wine Events
Winter is a great time to get out and sample all of the new wines that BC wineries have released. Home events are large like Cornucopia in Whistler, some are regional like Oliver/Osoyoos’s Winter in Wine Country or Summerland’s Light Up the Vines or Rosé Revolution and some are wineries hosting their own events at restaurants and their wineries.
Find out about all the cool winter wine events tonight. BCWineChat will be hosted by a very enthusiastic consumer of BCWines, Chantal Ireland!
October 30, 2013: The BC Wine Authority
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Unless you are a BC winery chances are you have never heard of the BC Wine Authority. As its website states, it is an independent regulatory authority to which the BC government has delegated the enforcement of our wine regulations in BC.
Included in wine regulations are winery inspections, running the tasting panels for VQA wines, which varieties are allowed to carry the VQA designation, winemaking regulations (minimum brix levels, blending rules etc), prohibited additives to wine, designation of sub appellations, and various other regulations around specific products like Icewine, sparkling wine and fortified wines.
Pretty geeky stuff if you are a consumer but pretty important if you are a winery.
If you are a winery we’d love to have you join us tonight. It will, no doubt, be a frank discussion.
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