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Cellar Updates

After Two Weeks of Work on our Bottling System, We Will Bottle Red, White, & Blue® This Week

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

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

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Cellar Gets Ready to Bottle Red, White, & Blue® Next Week

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

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.

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Our Cellar Crew Bottles Last Batch of Oskyfizzante® Cranberry on Tuesday

On December 17, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

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.

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The Cellar Crew Finishes Packaging Oskyfizzante® Red and Bottles 2012 Iowa Finale Tawny This Week

On December 2, 2019   /   Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

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

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Cellar Team Gets Cranberry Wine in the Bottle and Moves More Wines Towards Bottling

On November 11, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

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

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We are Getting Some Wines Bottled and Getting Other Wines Ready for Bottling

On October 28, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

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

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We Take Final Steps in Getting Iowa Nouveau Ready for Bottling

On October 14, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

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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We Will Finish Up the Remaining Two Fermentations and Add Fining Agents to Our Nouveau

On October 7, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We will handle the final step in fermentation of our Marquette and Nouveau by racking both wines off the yeast lees. We will begin fining the Nouveau and we will run chemistries on all of our wines and add SO2  where SO2 levels are too low. SO2

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We Will Bottle Our Very Popular Blackberry Wine and Finish Up Fermentations This Week

On September 30, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

This week, we will bottle our first wine after harvest. It is our very popular Blackberry Wine. We are also racking newly fermented wine into new tanks. We pump the wine out of the top of the tank down to the point where instead of wine, we

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Work in Tassel Ridge Cellar Centers on Fermentation Management

On September 23, 2019   /   Action in the Cellar, Cellar Updates, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Steuben is in the middle of fermentation now and both St. Pepin and LaCrosse are just about finished fermenting. Louise Swenson, Petite Pearl, St. Croix, and our Finalés are ready for racking off yeast lees. What this means is that their fermentations are done and now we

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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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