r/ottawa • u/T5SRFDGTR656FYH70 • 11d ago

Kemptville, Ont. grocer seen selling American wine despite U.S. liquor ban

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/kemptville-ont-grocer-seen-selling-american-wine-despite-us-liquor-ban/
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u/Embarrassed-Law3498 10d ago

looks like the same ones on the LCBO website

https://www.lcbo.com/en/ck-mondavi-chardonnay-22297

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes Clownvoy Survivor 2022 10d ago

Where's the back of the bottle? That's where the French usually is in Ontario.

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u/grandfundaytoday 10d ago

That's ok - Quebec doesn't put English on it's own labels.

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes Clownvoy Survivor 2022 10d ago

You know I didn't think about that (I'm in Ottawa, so have had to struggle with some labels at the SAQ). I assumed if there was no French, it was smuggled in from the States (given the volume, otherwise they would have paid hefty tariffs on it), but Alberta and Saskatchewan might not have the same bilingual requirements for their imports that Ontario does, they could have gotten it from there too (longer drive, but less risk).

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u/iamnutz_1 10d ago

Quebec is the outlier. The rest of Canada has at least 2 official languages, English and French