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.
Read more →About three weeks ago, we started to bottle and about one out of five bottles was a serious under-fill. We have a nine head filler but the problem wasn’t caused by the same head each time. We cancelled the bottling date and dismantled all of the filling
Read more →We have torn apart our bottling system and replaced washers and O’rings in several places. We will celebrate the completion of that task with a bottling of Red, White, & Blue this week. Our team have their fingers crossed that everything works right. We will also be getting
Read more →In the cellar, we have two batches of Red, White, & Blue that are being racked (moved from one tank to another, leaving behind solids at the bottom of the tank) and filtered. We are receiving a truck load of bottles which we put in our warehouse.
Read more →On Monday afternoon, we will host the Winemaker’s Round Table. This will give 20 Iowa winemakers a chance to compare processes and results for making red wines from Petite Pearl, Sabrevois, and Frontenac. This is a good opportunity for all 20 attendees to learn from each other.
Read more →We are putting the sleeves and labels on the Oskyfizzante Red this week. We can’t do it when we bottle because the bottles are cold and they sweat, making it impossible for labels to stick. So, we let them warm up for 2–3 days and then put
Read more →This week, we will package more of the Cranberry Wine Christmas Tree bottles and then bottle Cranberry Wine in standard 750 ml bottles. We’ve finished fermenting a first batch of Concord and Catawba and will rack them off yeast lees this week. We will rack Steuben and
Read more →Our cellar team will apply sleeves and label the Oskyfizzante® Cranberry we bottled last week and will then bottle another batch of Oskyfizzante Pink. We will get two new wines bottled and then rack LaCrosse and St. Pepin off the Bentonite that was used to cold stabilize
Read more →We are bottling a batch of American Pink Catawba from last season. We are also getting a batch of Oskyfizzante® Cranberry carbonated and ready for bottling. And, we will be cold stabilizing Sweet Roxie Red®. One of the big events of each fall is the final steps
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