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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue this week and move two additional batches of Red, White, & Blue closer to bottling. We are continuing experimentation with St. Pepin which we plan to bottle as a new varietal. And, we are moving our 2019
Read more →On Wednesday of this week, we’ll be bottling a long run of Red, White, & Blue. Our winemaker, Jonita, will be tasting and doing a chemical analysis of batches of Blackberry, Concord, and Catawba and she will be cold stabilizing several batches of Red, White, & Blue.
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