BC、安大略、魁北克三省达成协议：可互卖葡萄酒

据星岛日报引述CBC报道，BC省、安大略省以及魁北克省的省长们在今天（7月22日）达成一项协议，今后这三省的酒铺可出售对方产区的葡萄酒。

如此一来，消费者可以不用出远门也可享用外省葡萄酒了。而且酒庄也能更容易在外省的酒铺出售自家的酿造的葡萄酒。

不过跨省销售葡萄酒仍然受到地方酒类管理部门的密切监管。

据悉协议目的在于，令消费者可以更方便地在网上进行跨省选购、然后在本地的分销商店领取或者直接运上家门。

Fed up with not being able to buy B.C. wines in Ontario? A solution — at least a partial one — may be at hand.

The premiers of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec announced an agreement Friday to make it easier to purchase Canadian wines that aren’t made in the province where you live.

“We have not freed the grapes completely but they are freer,” B.C. Premier Christy Clark said.

“We’ve unshackled them,” Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said.

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The sales will continue to be overseen and regulated by each province’s respective liquor distribution agency: B.C.’s Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB), the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO).

But the goal is to make it easier for consumers to order wine from outside their province online. They could then pick it up at either their local distributor or have it shipped directly to their door.

The changes also intend to make it easier for wineries to be listed with the liquor distributors in other provinces.