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Category: *CheckMate Winery

  • Best CheckMate Winery wines review: This is what their 100 point Chardonnay and other 90+ point wines taste like. Is it worth your money?

    If you’ve been following our wine tales, you’ll know we’re quite obsessed with oaked Chardonnays from Côte de Beaune and California. We once opined that a short growing cycle in Canada made it impossible to produce anything even remotely close to these styles. But hold your wine glasses because times have changed, my friends! Canada… [Read more]

  • CheckMate Winery Review. All You Need To Know If You Are Planning A Visit

    We always meant to visit Antelope Ridge Winery. But as the famous adage goes: so many wineries, so little time. Sadly, the place remained on our backup list until it was gone, as in sold, lock, stock and barrel to British Columbia’s own, von Mandl. Some say that Antelope Ridge was rescued from obscurity. We… [Read more]