CANADA’S WINE IMPORTS

Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 7

CANADA’S WINE IMPORTS

EMPIRE PRODUCTS BECOME POPULAR Imports to Canada of non-sparkling wines from Australia and South Africa gradually are increasing as the quality of these beverages becomes known to Canadian consumers. To some extent wines from these sister dominions are displacing the historic products of Portugal, Spain, and France, and the movement is the more significant when it is remembered that it is only in the past year or' two that anything approaching an organised campaign to this end has been made. During the fiscal year of 1930-31 importation to Canada of non-sparkling wines amounted to 971,200 gallons, of which 79,015 came from British countries. In 1931-32, although there was a decline in the total to 831,349 gallons, the imports from the Empire went up to 93,263 gallons, the Empire percentage increasing from 8 per cent, to more than 11. ■

Australia in the past year contributed 31,377 gallons of non-sparkling wines to the Canadian wine cellar, which compares impressively with 3,182 gallons only five years ago and 24;052 gallons in 1930-31. The Union of South Africa sent her first consignment to Canada in 1930, being 2,581 gallons, and last year the total went up to 10,196 gallons.