We will bottle one of our last batches of Red, White, & Blue® for the season and work on getting Cranberry ready to bottle. With the start of harvesting approaching in August, this is the time of year that we start planning the purchasing of yeast, yeast
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On Tuesday, we will bottle a batch of Oskyfizzante® Pink and then label and install the cap-sleeves later in the week. We will also get the next batch of Oskyfizzante Pink carbonated and ready for bottling next week. Oskyfizzante Pink is our very popular sweet, pink, fizzy
Read more →We are performing final touches to our new 2018 Iowa Harvest Red blend and will bottle it this week. We will release it in September to our Harvest Club. It will be available in our tasting room later in the year. We are finishing up our Oskyfizzante®
Read more →We are finishing up on our production of our very popular Red, White, & Blue® for this season and will bottle another batch this week. We are also cold stabilizing Oskyfizzante® Pink. That means that we will chill it way down to about 25°F and then put
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We received juice to make American Steuben, Cranberry Wine, and American Pink Catawba on Monday and will start fermentations as soon as the juice temperatures get to about 60°F. Our titrator is all of a sudden not functioning, so we have to send all of our wine
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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
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