Canadians are known for being polite and apologetic. Yet there has been nothing polite nor apologetic about the wine industry’s response to US tariffs on Canadian goods. Corinne Keddie reports.
In 2024, alcoholic beverages worth €29.8bn were exported to non-EU countries. Wine accounted for €16.8bn of this total, and the US market represented €8.9bn of those wine exports.
New tariffs and a falling dollar will cause pain to the US wine drinker, US distributors and/or wine producers in other countries. Time will tell who is most hurt, and by how much.
More than 500 winegrower families in the cooperative Deutsches Weintor – the Gateway to German Wine – have joined forces on some 750 hectares of vineyards to produce top-class wines, including the excellent collection known as Blue Fish.