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WINERIES SEND MESSAGE IN BOTTLES Steve Kidd
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All along Westminster Avenue Thursday morning, people were stopping to watch as a parade of tractors made their way from the Naramata Bench to MLA Dan Ashton’s office in Riverside Plaza, one of them holding aloft a case of wine. The wine was a gift, not for Ashton, but for him to pass on to B.C. premier Christy Clark, who is to take it to the July 24 Premier’s conference at Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ont. “This is our Best of the Bench collection and our hope is we can get Premier Christy Clark to pass this on to the other provincial premiers at the upcoming Council of the Federation,” said Miranda Halladay of Elephant Island Winery. It seems Clark is going to have a lot of wine to pass around at the conference. Besides the dozen bottles from Naramata wineries, Clark already had four bottles she planned to give to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. Clark will be breaking Ontario law in order to get them there, though. Despite the federal government dropping regulations preventing the shipment of wine between provinces a year ago, only B.C. and Manitoba have relaxed their provincial laws. That, said Halladay, was the purpose of the tractor parade and the gift, to attract attention to how little has changed since Bill C-311 was passed in June 2012. “I think most Canadians don’t know this is something illegal and it is something so simple, from our perspective, to change,” she said. The ability to ship wines anywhere in Canada would be a huge boost for the many small- to medium-size wineries along the bench and throughout the South Okanagan, few of which produce wines achieving national distribution. “Because we are small, a small opportunity is a big opportunity for us. It was something that needed to be addressed,” said Halladay, who thinks the resistance comes from retailers and provincial monopolies fearing
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DAVID ENNS of Laughing Stock Vineyards leads a convoy of tractors from the wineries of Naramata Bench through Penticton to MLA Dan Ashton’s office, on their way to deliver a case of the Best of the Bench wines, held high on the second tractor, driven by Bob Tennant of Terravista Vineyards.
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