Cellar Updates

Iowa White Bouquet will make its debut at Tassel Ridge Winery this week. It is a fruity, dry white blend that will be an excellent complement to chicken, fish, pork, and spicy dishes. We are moving crush pad equipment to the Winery from our warehouse in order

We have three wines that we want to bottle before harvest makes bottling impossible. The first is American Pink Catawba followed by Cranberry Wine and then Iowa White Bouquet, a new wine which we will release sometime in August. We will change out drums used to hold

We received the replacement pump and motor for our cross flow filter from Italy this week and got it installed and working. The first thing we did was to run a cleaning cycle and then we will start filtering wine. We have an updated bottling schedule and

As soon as we receive the replacement pump/motor for our cross-flow filter, we will be able to get ready to bottle wine again. In the meantime, we are fining our batch of Catawba and are taking steps to assure that wine in the tanks is stable. This

Since we can’t engage in wine making, we are getting the wine cellar floors all cleaned and are getting bottling line equipment ready for prime time. Cranberry ferments very slowly and we are keeping an eye on that fermentation. We also ended the Catawba fermentation. We will

The fermentations of Catawba and Cranberry started over the weekend of April 11 & 12. We continue to monitor them. The big news is that a pump and motor on our Crossflow Filter burned up a bearing early last week. We have removed both the pump and

Sometimes, the best-laid plans just don’t work out. We were planning to bottle small quantities each of three different wines. We got the first two wines bottled and were just starting the third wine when a bottle broke in the machine. That was bad enough but the

We have cold stabilized batches of both Iowa Edelweiss and Red, White, & Blue®. We do this to minimize the chance that if a wine is ever subjected to cold temperatures, it won’t make tartrate crystals that settle to the bottom of the bottle. The crystals are