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Cellar Updates

We Process Fruit as Soon as it is Harvested and then Manage Fermentations

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

Last Saturday, we processed the Marquette. That involves weighing-in the grapes and then dumping them in the elevator hopper. The elevator carries the fruit up above the destemmer-crusher where any stems are removed and the grapes are crushed. The grapes are then pumped into a tank in

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Cellar Team is in a Race to Be Ready for Harvest

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

The Cellar Team is testing and tasting grapes on a daily basis and we will harvest right when they are ready. Brianna is likely to be the first grape harvested. Meanwhile, the bin dumper needs to be attached to the crush pad forklift, the scale will be

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The Cellar is a Beehive of Pre-Harvest Activity

On August 10, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will very carefully scrub the inside of our new press by hand with scrub brushes. The scale will be moved to the crush pad and we will get a preventative maintenance visit for our Titrator. Our two new 4,000 gallon tanks will be carefully cleaned. We

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The Cellar is Now in the Run-up to Harvest

On August 4, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We’ll be doing some cleaning and equipment maintenance before we bring our hopper, fruit elevator, destemmer-crusher, and must pump from the warehouse to the crush pad. Then, we’ll get that equipment cleaned and ready. We have a bit of wine in the tanks that we’ll be moving

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Finish Last Bottling of Season; Get Everything Ready for Harvest

On July 28, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will bottle our last wines for this season: 2019 Iowa St. Pepin and 2019 Iowa Louise Swenson. Both of these wines are new for Tassel Ridge and we’ll be excited to release them in the Fall.  Batches of American Steuben and Cranberry Wine have finished fermenting.

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We Filter 2019 Iowa St. Pepin and 2019 Iowa Louise Swenson This Week

On July 20, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will get our 2019 Iowa St. Pepin and 2019 Iowa Louise Swenson filtered this week so we are ready to bottle both wines next week. We are monitoring the fermentation of another batch of Cranberry Wine. Fermenting cranberry is a slow process. We are also getting

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We Bottle Blackberry Wine This Week

On July 14, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

On Wednesday, we will bottle another batch of our very popular Blackberry Wine. If you like a really smooth sweet wine, you should try Tassel Ridge Blackberry Wine. We are fermenting batches of Cranberry Wine and American Steuben so we’ll be monitoring those fermentations. We will be

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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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Tassel Ridge Winery

Address:
1681 220th Street
Leighton, IA 50143

Phone:
641.672.WINE (9463)

*Winery Hours:

Monday–Friday: 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Sunday: 12:00–6:00 p.m.

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