Western Canada

British Columbia

According to the British Columbia government’s Liquor Law & Policy FAQs website, restaurant servers are allowed to re-seal the bottle before you leave their establishment. This re-sealed bottle cannot be “readily accessible to anyone in the vehicle while driving. (Store it behind the seat or in the trunk, etc.)”

Alberta

Alberta introduced recorking wine in 2009. Restaurants with the BYOW licence can recork both guests’ personal wines and bottles purchased from the restaurant.

Saskatchewan

Prior to 2009, residents of Saskatchewan had to leave their unfinished wine bottles at the restaurant. Now they can bring their wine home, provided it is re-corked by the establishment. And “corked” is literal. The establishment must use cork to seal all bottles, even screw capped bottles.

You can also have beer resealed, provided it is at least 500ml with a minimum alcohol content of 8%.

The only exception, according to the SLGA website, is at banquets “where wine is provided at no direct charge to the consumer. In that case, the establishment may choose whether to provide recording services and whether to charge for that service.”

Manitoba

Since 2005, diners in Manitoba can take home unconsumed wine. “Restaurants can re-cork a bottle of wine that has been served with a meal,” reads the entry on the LGA Manitoba website, “allowing the patron to take the bottle home to finish another time.”  Interestingly enough, BYOW was only introduced in 2011.