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Cellar Updates

We Finish Up Bottling Red, White, & Blue® for this Season

On June 23, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

This week, we will finish up the last bottling session with our very popular Red, White, & Blue. We are completing cold stabilization of a batch of American Pink Catawba. A shipment of Steuben and Cranberry juice is expected this week. We are getting ready for harvest

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Planning the Last of our Bottling Events for this Season

On June 16, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We are doing lots of checks on wine in tanks including for dissolved oxygen and SO2 and we will make adjustments where necessary. We are starting to get ready for harvest by purchasing yeast, yeast nutrients, and other fermentation supplies. Other tasks for this week include moving

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We Will Clean up After Resurfacing our Concrete Floors in Cellar

On May 26, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will start work this week to return the cellar to where things were located prior to resurfacing the concrete floors.  The acid in the wine and the cleaning chemicals we use (Potassium Metabisulfate and Citric Acid) help us keep our tanks, hoses, pumps, and other equipment

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We Bottle Iowa In the Dark and 2019 Iowa Marquette on Tuesday

On May 18, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will bottle small batches of both Iowa In the Dark and the 2019 Iowa Marquette on Tuesday. We are getting the small batches of Iowa Louise Swenson and Iowa St. Pepin ready for bottling within the next few weeks. We are also working on another batch

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Activities No Bottling this Week; Cellar Gets Several Wines Ready for Bottling

On May 11, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter  

The cap elevator on our bottling line has failed and while we work to fix it, we are delaying bottling, hopefully for just a week or so. This machine takes the screw caps from floor level and blows them up about 7 feet to the vibratory bowl

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The Cellar is Working on Four New Wines and Finishing Up the Last Batches of Red, White, & Blue for This Year

On May 5, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue® this week and are getting ready to bottle four new vintages of wine: 2019 Iowa Marquette, Iowa In the Dark, 2019 Iowa St. Pepin, and 2019 Iowa Louise Swenson. The last two wines are white, and we

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We are Taking a Week Off from Bottling to get Caught up on Other Tasks in the Cellar

On April 13, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We continue to ferment Red, White, & Blue® and will be monitoring those fermentations. Checking SO2 and Dissolved Oxygen levels will take some time. We will be bottling St. Pepin as a stand-alone varietal for the first time in a couple of weeks and are working on

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The Cellar Team will Bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue® This Week

On March 31, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue this week and will monitor a fermentation that is midway through the process. We will also start cold stabilization of another wine. Last week, we received our new Dissolved Oxygen (DO) meter. We’ve learned that many of

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We will bottle Blackberry Wine this week. This is one of our most popular wines.

On March 23, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

The barrels we’d used for 2019 Iowa Marquette are now empty and need to be cleaned. We are working on blending the 2019 Iowa Marquette and In the Dark to get them ready for bottling. We are still working on our St. Pepin blend. We’ve started wiping

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Bottling Season Continues

On March 17, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue® this week and get this year’s batch of Blackberry Wine ready for bottling next week. We will be moving the 2019 Iowa Marquette that was in barrels to a tank and will blend what was in the

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1681 220th Street
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641.672.WINE (9463)

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