There are some new local wines on the shelf at your local grocery store.
Quebec wine producers can now bypass the SAQ and sell their products directly to retailers.
In the past, local wines could only be sold at the SAQ or at wineries.
“(Quebecers) are very curious they want to taste different products made in Quebec and wine is one of them. It's good for us, it's good for the economy, it's good for them too, the producers,” Marie-Josee Drouin of the Food Retailers' Association of Quebec told CTV Montreal.
Small-scale wine producers will have to get their wine analyzed by the SAQ or by a lab to make sure it's safe and confirm its quality.
The new wines are already starting to appear on store shelves.