Wine, Beer and Spirits

The Canadian alcoholic beverages sector includes the wine, beer and spirits sub-sectors, which consist of primary producers, value added production, manufacturing, packaging, beverage retailing, tourism and research and technologies related to these industries. Alcoholic beverages are produced in wineries, breweries and distilleries. Wineries produce wine or brandy from grapes or other fruits; breweries engage in the brewing of beer, ale, malt liquors and non-alcoholic beer; while distilleries distil liquor, blend liquor or blend and mix liquor and other ingredients. Canadian wine is internationally known primarily for its Icewines and increasingly for cool climate table wines. The brewing industry produces a variety of beers including lager, ale, porter and stout as well as draught and seasonal beers. Canadian distilleries produce a variety of spirits including Canadian whisky, rum, vodka, gin, liqueurs, spirit coolers and basic ethyl alcohol.

Markets offering opportunities in this sector

See which foreign markets offer the best opportunities according to our trade commissioners abroad:

• China
• France
• Germany
• Japan
• United States

Markets Reports

Market reports offer key intelligence that lets you take advantage of foreign business opportunities in the highest-demand industrial sectors. They also list important Canadian government contacts.

Asia Pacific

China

• Grape Wine Sector Profile - Hong Kong and Macao 2016/03/22

Hong Kong, SAR

• Grape Wine Sector Profile - Hong Kong and Macao 2016/03/22

Europe

Czech Republic

• Food and Beverage Profile - Prague, Czech Republic 2016/08/02

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