Hill Street Beverage has partnered with Vin First Innovative Packaging, Cannabis Compliance and Lexaria Bioscience to produce alcohol-free cannabis-infused beverages.

Vin First manufactures and packages wine and mixed beverages, while Cannabis Compliance offers licensing and compliance advisory services, and Lexaria Bioscience provides technology for infusing wine and beer.

As part of the partnership, the four companies will collaborate to test new technologies and produce alcohol-free wines and beers infused with cannabis extracts.

Hill Street CEO Terry Donnelly said: “Hill Street now has the technology, packaging and necessary compliance support to make cannabis-infused beverages available to consumers.

“Hill Street’s portfolio of brands will also be cannabis-infused and we’ll provide co-packing services for other wineries and breweries as soon as edible forms of cannabis are legalised.”

“Hill Street’s portfolio of brands will also be cannabis-infused and we’ll provide co-packing services for other wineries and breweries as soon as edible forms of cannabis are legalised.

“Together with our new partners, we’re excited to bring such game-changing capabilities to Ontario.”

Hill Street will use Lexaria’s technology to develop cannabis-infused beverages at Vin First’s facilities.

Vin First operations vice-president Kevin Ruddle noted that its collaboration with Hill Street will benefit the Niagara Region by offering growth opportunities.

Recently, the beverage maker selected Cannabis Compliance to manage regulatory services.

Cannabis Compliance sales and marketing vice-president Edward Collins said: “We work with cannabis producers, research facilities and retailers from around the world. Hill Street is the first Canadian company we know of pursuing cannabis-infused wines and beers.”