New Yorkers still cannot purchase wine in grocery stores as can be done in a majority of other states, but those living near the 445-mile-long border with Canada's Ontario province will be looking thirstily in that direction on October 28.That is the date provincial Finance Minister Charles Sousa has announced as the first day on which wines will be available on the shelves of at least 70 grocery stores, the next wave of Premier Kathleen Wynne's liberalization of the province's restrictive laws on selling beer and wine.
Last December, six-packs of beer first became available in supermarkets. By 2025, 300 of Ontario's 1,500 grocery stores will be selling wine and 450 will stock beer. Spirits will remain the exclusive purview of the 650-outlet government-owned Liquor Control Board of Ontario, which will continue to sell beer and wine as well.
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