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Cellar Updates

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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We Bottle More Red, White, & Blue® This Week

On March 9, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Featured Article, Newsletter  

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

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We are Bottling Lots of Red, White, & Blue® Now

On February 24, 2020   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

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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With Our Bottling Line Now Thoroughly Cleaned and Tuned Up, We are Bottling with a Heavy Weekly Schedule

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

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

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Tassel Ridge Winery

Address:
1681 220th Street
Leighton, IA 50143

Phone:
641.672.WINE (9463)

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Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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