We will bottle one of our last batches of Red, White, & Blue® for the season and work on getting Cranberry ready to bottle. With the start of harvesting approaching in August, this is the time of year that we start planning the purchasing of yeast, yeast
Read more →We are finishing up on our production of our very popular Red, White, & Blue® for this season and will bottle another batch this week. We are also cold stabilizing Oskyfizzante® Pink. That means that we will chill it way down to about 25°F and then put
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We received juice to make American Steuben, Cranberry Wine, and American Pink Catawba on Monday and will start fermentations as soon as the juice temperatures get to about 60°F. Our titrator is all of a sudden not functioning, so we have to send all of our wine
Read more →Red, White, & Blue® is our biggest selling wine. Each year, after we make the wine from grapes we grow, we start using our empty tanks to make Red, White, & Blue. Right now, we have several fermentations going. We start each fermentation with the nutrients that
Read more →We have several fermentations going on with the juice that we brought in from upstate New York. Over the weekend, we added the lab nutrients to two of these fermentations. We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue® on Wednesday and then get Cranberry Wine
Read more →We will bottle our last batch of Star Spangled White®, our very popular sweet white wine. Our cellar team is also performing some of the last steps in getting our first batch of Red, White, & Blue® ready for bottling. And, the very slow Cranberry Wine fermentation
Read more →We will bottle one of our most popular wines, Star Spangled White®, on Wednesday. Actually, this is just the first batch of Star Spangled White. There will be five more. 2018 Iowa Edelweiss and Iowa White Blossom are also made from Edelweiss and we are beginning the
Read more →In the cellar, we are adding cream of tartar to begin cold stabilization of the 2018 Iowa Steuben. We are also filtering batches of Star Spangled White® and 2017 Iowa LaCrosse which we will bottle during the week of November 28. Over the past several weeks, we
Read more →We continue to fine various batches of white wines in order to get them ready for bottling. We are cold stabilizing Edelweiss in two different ranks. We’ve moved our Muscat into the Winery from the outdoor tank and are beginning to taste the Muscat in order to
Read more →We will bottle our last batch of Oskyfizzante® Pink on Tuesday and follow that with bottling of 2018 Iowa Nouveau on Wednesday. We continue racking and fining wines that we will bottle almost every Wednesday now until the end of the year. Many of these bottling sessions
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