CANADA STATISTICS AGENCY SAYS WINE SALES OUTSTRIP SPIRITS
September 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
IN 2005, Canadians bought more wine than spirits for the first time according to a new Statistics Canada report.
National wines sales reached CDN$4.2-billion compared with CDN$4-billion sold in spirits in 2004/2005.
Beer sales are top: CDN$8.4-billion in sales last year. However wine sales increased at much higher rate, 6.5% in 2005 than either beer at 3.3% or spirits at 2.3%. The province of Quebec was leader in wine consumption with sales of CDN$1.4-billion, three times those of spirits, and one-third of total Canadian wine sales.
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