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Cellar Updates

We Will Bottle Our Very Popular Blackberry Wine and Finish Up Fermentations This Week

On September 30, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

This week, we will bottle our first wine after harvest. It is our very popular Blackberry Wine. We are also racking newly fermented wine into new tanks. We pump the wine out of the top of the tank down to the point where instead of wine, we

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Work in Tassel Ridge Cellar Centers on Fermentation Management

On September 23, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Steuben is in the middle of fermentation now and both St. Pepin and LaCrosse are just about finished fermenting. Louise Swenson, Petite Pearl, St. Croix, and our Finalés are ready for racking off yeast lees. What this means is that their fermentations are done and now we

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We Work on Hundreds of Tasks in Cellar as Fermentations Continue

On September 16, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

With ten different wines at various stages of fermentation, there are lots of balls in the air at Tassel Ridge right now. Yeast needs to be fed at about the middle of the fermentation cycle so additional nutrients are put in the tanks at the right times.

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From Grapes to Juice to Wine—Watch How It Begins!

On September 16, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Harvest 2019 at Tassel Ridge Winery is now finished up! Watch how we turn the grapes into juice to make our Tassel Ridge wine.

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The Cellar Moves into High Gear with Several Batches of Wine Fermenting

On September 9, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Marquette and Foch fermentations are right on schedule. One of the objectives of fermenting red wine is to extract as much color and flavor from the grape skins as possible. Since the grape skins float to the top of the fermenter, they need to be regularly pushed

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We Expect to Process Grapes on the Crush Pad This Week

On September 3, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We started our testing and tasting this week on Monday. St. Pepin and Marquette look really good. La Crescent still has high acid but the sugar level is about right. Our new press has been a comedy of errors. Not only did it arrive just a couple

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Jonita Spoke on Wednesday at Grandfather’s Barn at the Iowa State Fair

On August 19, 2019   /   Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Jonita spoke on Wednesday at Grandfather’s Barn at the Iowa State Fair. She talked about La Crescent, her favorite Iowa grape and wine. Maybe she even stomped a few grapes! This week will be invested in getting grapes tested for acidity and sugar in our lab and

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Jonita Will Speak on Wednesday at Grandfather’s Barn at the Iowa State Fair about La Crescent

On August 12, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  
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Jonita will speak at Grandfather’s Barn at the Iowa State Fair about La Crescent on Wednesday. Come and see us. The floors in the cellar are squeaky clean after Jonita and her crew got them cleaned within an inch of their lives. I find that I can

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We Bottle American Steuben This Week

On August 5, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  
American Steuben

We will be bottling a batch of our very popular American Steuben this week. Another bottling run of Oskyfizzante® Cranberry will follow late in the week. These runs will empty tanks we will need as we start to process fruit to be harvested this year. Our cellar

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We Start Bottling Oskyfizzante® Cranberry This Week

On July 30, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  
bottling oskyfizzante cranberry

We are bottling our first batch of the very popular Oskyfizzante® Cranberry this week. We have also just finished cold stabilizing a batch of American Steuben and will rack that wine off cream of tartar. We will get it bottled in the next week or so. Preventative

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Tassel Ridge Winery

Address:
1681 220th Street
Leighton, IA 50143

Phone:
641.672.WINE (9463)

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Monday–Friday: 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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