Wine Sector Support Program

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Program purpose (as reported by the department)

The Wine Sector Support Program provides short term financial support to licensed Canadian wineries as they transition and adapt to ongoing and emerging challenges impacting financial resilience and competitiveness of the wine industry.

Agreements with businesses
1707
Median agreement
$23,995
Range
$257 – $23,439,999
Recipients
849
Last 12 months
16
Total value
$287,118,296

What the numbers say

  • Half of the agreements with businesses are worth $23,995 or less.
  • The largest recipient, Arterra Wines Canada Inc, holds $67,860,005 (24% of the program's business funding in this data).
  • The most recent agreement in the data started on 2025-12-22.

By fiscal year

2022-23$104,719,737677
2023-24$98,517,857382
2024-25$53,386,778376
2025-26$30,493,925272

By recipient province

ON$218,689,087567
BC$49,805,876682
QC$10,416,084336
NS$7,296,08067
AB$270,45618
NB$253,55311
NL$235,3888
SK$51,2356
PE$50,8055
MB$49,7327

Largest recipients

RecipientAgreementsValueLatest start
Arterra Wines Canada Inc3$67,860,0052023-12-14
Andrew Peller Limited4$61,340,6202025-04-01
Arterra Wines Canada, Inc. Vins Arterra Canada, Inc.1$17,883,8772024-04-08
Henry of Pelham Inc.2$4,875,0052022-07-04
Colio Estate Wines Inc3$4,738,7222024-04-08
PELEE ISLAND WINERY & VINEYARDS INC.2$4,472,6112023-04-17
Mark Anthony Group, Inc.2$4,420,6832022-07-04
Mark Anthony Group Inc.3$4,253,3722025-04-01
Magnotta Winery Estates Ltd2$3,961,3302022-07-04
Henry of Pelham Inc2$3,600,7832025-04-01
Colio Estate Wines Inc.2$3,308,0992025-04-01
Magnotta Winery Estates Limited2$2,558,9432024-04-08
Quails' Gate Vineyards Estate Winery Ltd.4$2,469,1122024-04-08
Pillitteri Estates Winery Inc5$2,468,0172025-04-01
Cave Spring Cellars4$2,149,8732024-04-08

Recent agreements

StartRecipientProjectProvinceValue
2025-12-22Kawartha Country Wines Ltd.Wine Sector Support ProgramON$15,626
2025-12-20Celista Estate Winery Ltd.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$6,327
2025-12-18Tender Hope Holdings Ltd.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$4,495
2025-12-11Lariana Cellars LTD.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$2,076
2025-12-09Skimmerhorn Wines Inc.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$11,213
2025-12-04Jeff Richard, Annie VadnaisWine Sector Support ProgramNB$3,037
2025-11-30Vignoble LeblancWine Sector Support ProgramQC$9,208
2025-11-28Château de cartes, vignoble et cidrerie inc.Wine Sector Support ProgramQC$48,940
2025-11-2650th Parallel Estate General Partner Inc.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$68,488
2025-11-24Dominique Drolet, Christian HébertWine Sector Support ProgramQC$10,191
2025-11-23Van Westen Vineyards Ltd.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$1,421
2025-11-18Sea Star Vineyard and Winery Ltd.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$9,008
2025-11-17Chain Reaction Vineyards Inc.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$568
2025-11-141164442 BC Ltd.Wine Sector Support ProgramBC$1,672
2025-11-14Vignoble La vallée des nuages S.E.N.C.Wine Sector Support ProgramQC$8,038
2025-11-06Orofino Vineyards IncWine Sector Support ProgramBC$8,534
2025-09-24Macedo Winery LimitedWine Sector Support ProgramON$23,555
2025-09-18Domaine Ives Hill Inc.Wine Sector Support ProgramQC$8,482
2025-04-01Andrew Peller LimitedWine Sector Support ProgramON$14,181,999
2025-04-01Cidrerie Compton Inc.Wine Sector Support ProgramQC$3,900
2025-04-01Joanne Pratt, Craig MacMillanWine Sector Support ProgramON$3,608
2025-04-01The Thirteenth Street Winery Corp.Wine Sector Support ProgramON$159,636
2025-04-01051996 N.B. Ltd.Wine Sector Support ProgramNB$24,730
2025-04-012222227 Ontario IncorporatedWine Sector Support ProgramON$12,439
2025-04-01Five Rows Craft Wine Inc.Wine Sector Support ProgramON$7,178

Method & sources

Source: Government of Canada "Proactive Disclosure – Grants and Contributions" (Open Government Licence – Canada). We include agreements with for-profit recipients that started on or after April 1, 2021, and keep the latest amendment of each agreement, so values are the current agreement value, not money paid out. Departments report on their own schedule, so the most recent quarter is incomplete. Recipients are linked to company pages by exact name match. This is not an endorsement or an eligibility determination — check each program's official page.

Dataset on open.canada.ca · Search the official grants records