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Tawny Pipe

Tawny Pipe Wine Details
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Description: A new dessert wine produced in the Okanagan. Made in a port style using the continuous fermentation method.(Sugar continuously being added to the fermentation) Our Style-Marechal Foch is ripened on the vine until 26-28 percent sugar is achieved. The Foch is then fermented on the skins to extract colour and then the wine is transferred to oak where the wine continues to ferment and sugar is added. Aged 8-12 months in new oak.

Varietal Definition
Marechal Foch:
A french-american hybrid grape, with french Alsace Gamay origins, noted for producing deeply colored and strongly varietal wines considered by some to have a "Burgundian" character. Also known under the name Foch.


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