We will bottle Rockets Glare Rosé® on Wednesday. We finished fermentation of a batch of American Pink Catawba and will be cold stabilizing a batch of Red, White, & Blue®.
Read more →We will bottle Sweet Roxie Red® and will prepare the Oskyfizzante® Red for carbonation. Our first batch of Red, White, & Blue® is ready for cold stabilization. We will also be monitoring several fermentations. The cranberry fermentation was especially slow again this year, but it will finish
Read more →Our cellar team will bottle a batch of Star Spangled White® on Wednesday and filter another batch on Thursday. We will be cold stabilizing 2018 Iowa Brianna, Sweet Roxie Red®, and a special red wine for our Harvest Club as soon as they are cold enough. As
Read more →This week’s bottling run will be another batch of our very popular Star Spangled White. We will also be getting two future batches of Star Spangled White ready for bottling. We are fining Sweet Roxie Red®, working on a new red wine for our Harvest Club, and
Read more →We will bottle one of our most popular wines, Star Spangled White®, on Wednesday. Actually, this is just the first batch of Star Spangled White. There will be five more. 2018 Iowa Edelweiss and Iowa White Blossom are also made from Edelweiss and we are beginning the
Read more →We will finish carbonation of another batch of Oskyfizzante Cranberry and then bottle it this week. We will also filter and start carbonation of the last batch of Oskyfizzante Cranberry. And, we will bottle a small batch of Cranberry Wine in our Christmas tree bottles. We are
Read more →The cellar team will bottle the very popular Oskyfizzante® Cranberry on Tuesday. They will be monitoring carbonation of Oskyfizzante® Pink while they also monitor fermentation of the Muscat that just arrived from California. Some wines need to be fined and we’ll get fining agents into these wines
Read more →On Monday, we received about 3,000 gallons of Muscat juice we purchased in Mendocino Country, California. We started the fermentation today. We are getting ready to carbonate our Oskyfizzante Cranberry and will bottle that next week. We have six tanks of Edelweiss and this week will be racking three
Read more →The first step in making wine is getting it fermented. We have several fermentations going all at once right now and are monitoring them regularly. With red wines, we want to keep the skins in contact with the juice as much as possible so this weekend, we
Read more →We have six batches of juice fermenting in the cellar right now. They need regular attention to make sure that they are not fermenting too fast and that the temperature is being maintained. Unfortunately, on Saturday night, a local electrical substation took a hit and we were without
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