A report from CBC Radio News updating listeners on the recommendations of the BC Wine Appellation Task Group. Note: the plebiscite process is not getting underway until the New Year and no timeline has been announced as of December 31st. The report erroneously claims that the voting is scheduled to conclude “by the end of the…
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Anthony Gismondi: Wine industry votes on changes
Byline: Anthony Gismondi, Vancouver Sun There’s only one wine that matters in the premium wine business and that is a wine of place. After a spring and summer of study, a B.C. wine industry task force wound up its investigations by proposing sweeping changes to British Columbia’s wine map, a map desperately in need of…
BC Wine Report by Rhys Pender: BC Wine Appellation Task Group
Byline: Rhys Pender, MW, Wine Align Over the last 8 months, I have spent a good chunk of my time volunteering as part of the BC Wine Appellation Task Group. This group was given the mission statement “To engage the BC wine industry and use their input to recommend improvements on our system of appellations, and…
B.C. wine task group proposes reforms
Byline: Kimberly Davidson, Global News A B.C. wine task group is hoping to sub-divide wine regions to offer consumers more information about soil and climate conditions. Wine regions can be further broken down into appellations. Currently B.C. has five officially designated wine regions. They are the Okanagan Valley, Similkameen Valley, Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island and the…
BC Wine Task Group wants to change province’s wine industry
Byline: Lauren Sundstrom, VancityBuzz An independent wine makers advocacy group wants to make some changes to B.C.’s wine industry. The BC Wine Appellation Task Group has developed a set of 13 recommendations for the provincial government, most notably to create four new appellations. For those who aren’t aware, appellations are the technical term for the geographical…
B.C.’s wine country set to expand
Byline: Cheryl Chan, The Province Designation of four new regions recommended by industry panel When Rolf de Bruin and Heleen Pannekoek visited the Okanagan to scout for land for a new vineyard and winery, they came away empty. The prime spots in B.C.’s most well-known wine region were already taken, and whatever was left fetched…
New Wine Regions, Regulatory Reforms Proposed by BC Wine Task Group
A stronger “sense of place” will strengthen BC’s reputation among domestic and international wine consumers Vancouver, BC – A BC wine industry group released its final report Thursday after a seven-month comprehensive consultation on the future of British Columbia’s system of appellations. The BC Wine Appellation Task Group – an independent ad-hoc committee of leading…
Strong Survey Response a Boost to Industry Group’s Work
Penticton, BC – The B.C. Wine Appellation Task Group is heralding the strong response to its wine industry and consumer online survey, which was conducted beginning June 15th and closed on July 3rd. There were 849 individual responses to the survey on key issues surrounding the origin and identity of wine made from 100% British…
Kurtis Kolt: B.C. wine industry at a “tipping point”
Source: Georgia Straight newspaper, byline: Kurtis Kolt This summer will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the most thrilling times in B.C. wine. Though that sounds hyperbolic, I have no apprehension about making that call in these pages. We’re at a pivotal moment, a tipping point, if you will; there’s palpable excitement in…
Gismondi: Export — or die. B.C. wine retools for the 21st century
Byline: Anthony Gismondi. Source: Pique Newsmagazine British Columbia wine makers find themselves at a crossroads this summer. There’s no denying the region has grown up — just look at the price of local wine to see that we take a backseat to no one. The question is, can they sustain the interest and the prices…