Vision / Mission / Purpose

Visionary Project Designed to Advance the Age-Worthy Wines of Canada

The Canadian Wine Library (CWL) aspires to demonstrate the potential of cellaring premium VQA Canadian wines.

Our goal is to become the benchmark to enable producers, consumers, educators and researchers to make informed decisions regarding the ageability of the wines within its collection.

Mission

In order to accomplish its purpose and vision, the mission of the CWL is to:

  • Establish and maintain an on-line system to administer the following:
  • Cellar inventory system that would be available on-line.
  • Tasting requests to legitimate tasting organizations or researchers.
  • Feedback to participating wineries of the CWL (inform winemakers confidentially of their respective tasting results while informing members of the general results)
  • Conduct an annual tasting to determine new wines to the library’s collection.
  • Conduct an annual audit of all wines in the collection to glean and determine relative status of development.
  • Maintain the upkeep of physical conditions of the library.
  • Hold educational and fundraising events to allow the library to be self-sustaining, increase awareness and promote the CWL.
  • Prepare an annual status report.

Purpose

The Canadian Wine Library (CWL) exists in order to:

  • Foster measures to promote education and research on the development of premium wines produced in Canada under the following three pillars:  Research, Education and/or Promotion.
  • Establish and maintain a research inventory of premium VQA wines or wines that can be demonstrated that each originated from 100 percent Ontario or Canadian-grown grapes with LCBO audits as supporting documents.
  • Disseminate information and make the results of its research available to the general public in order to educate them as to the unique development of premium wines in Canada and resources available for their education.
  • Coordinate activities of the CWL with other organizations, societies and individuals that have similar objectives in whole or in part to the objectives of the CWL.