What Checkmate also has going for them is the human element that is actually rarely seen by other wineries we have visited thus far in the Okanagan Valley.

Ornellaia 2013 is one of those pleasures that you initially make excuses for but immediately found salvation from guilt.

I feel there is still more of this wine yet to be discovered. This evolution through time was observed in this one pour which was quite fun actually.

So deep and dense yet dances on your palate with rainbows and sparkles.

It still keeps evolving in the glass and I couldn’t stop smelling it to uncov er more layers.

A very good quality for a wine but expected more as a Classed Growth from Pauillac from a legendary vintage.