Why B.C wines are hard to find in WA

As regular readers know, I moved to the U.S. more than a decade ago from my hometown of Vancouver, B.C. That’s where I first learned about wine before moving to California and Oregon, and then making my home in the Seattle area.

My hometown newspaper, The Vancouver Sun, frequently answers my burning questions about local wine. And now The Seattle Times is doing the same — recently responding to Why British Columbia wines can be hard to find in Washington.

The short answer: B.C. wineries produce a limited amount of wine, and the B.C. government’s Liquor Control Board (LCB) process is time-consuming, costly and complicated. So most B.C. wineries sell their labels at their tasting rooms or through LCB stores rather than sell retail across the border (or as we used to call it in Vancouver, “across the line”).

For more information, read the full article by clicking on the above link.

Cheers!

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About Margot

Margot started writing about wine decades ago as a national journalist in Canada and the U.S. She and Dave created this website in 2007. Originally, the website introduced people to wines in Washington state, the second-largest wine region in the U.S. But over the years, the site expanded to feature other wine regions in the U.S., Canada, and in the world. If you like to read about standout wine and winery stories, then Write for Wine is for you.