Our Story

It’s a truism that dreams work when you do. This is deeply illustrated by the Khangura Family, our owners of Pipe’ Dreams ®, one of Oliver’s newer wineries. After 20 years of farming in the Okanagan and experiencing the Okanagan, the Khangura family formed a lifelong dream to run a winery.

 securing the prime grape growing land and planting some unique grapes rarely grown in the Okanagan, ones that are best suited to this terroir, including Kerner, Zweigelt, Gamay and Grüner Veltliner. With only 2,800 cases produced annually, these are very rare and limited wines.
 
 
Wines are available online, and onsite in the wine shop.
 
Pipe’ Dreams represents the fulfillment of chances taken, working against the grain to achieve the impossible. Taste the lesser-known and raise a glass to your dreams.

Biographies

Khangura family, founder and proprietor of Pipe’ Dreams Estate Winery

We are the new owners of this winery and we have been farming in the Okanagan for the last 20 years. Our family first started with a fruit market called Rama Farm market which was opened in 2004 and is still running. Our dream was to have a well established winery along with the well established fruit market and now that dream is a reality.

John Ness, the original founder and proprietor of Pipe’ Dreams Estate Winery had a dream or two. Later in life, John began taking motorcycle tours through the valley in the summers, and skiing in the winters, with the vision that one day he would make his home there.

The dictionary definition of a Pipe Dream is a “hope, wish, or dream that is impossible to achieve or not practical”. It can also be an “illusory or fantastic plan, hope, or story”, suggesting that his plan for starting a new life and business in the Okanagan was a dream too inaccessible to become a reality.

Throwing caution to the wind, John moved to Oliver in 2009 and purchased a small acreage in 2011 with the intention of growing grapes. After studying the soil, he found that his land was best suited to interesting varietals – Kerner, Zweigelt, Gamay and Grüner Veltliner among them, which he planted with enthusiasm. John he soon realized that the way to truly accomplish his goals was to open his own winery. Thus, his pipe dream became a reality.

Pipe Dreams represents the fulfillment of chances taken, working against the grain to achieve the impossible. Finally settling down, our intention is that the wines of Pipe’ Dreams offer an authentic expression of his land, while inspiring people to challenge themselves to achieve beyond their wildest imagination.