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We are Assessing Winter Cold Damage to our Vines

On February 18, 2019   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles   /   Leave a comment

The extremely cold weather we’ve experienced over the past three weeks is starting to worry us that we may have incurred damage to trunks and cordons of our vines. The problem is that we aren’t going to know for sure until just before harvest. The reason is

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We are Engaged in Indoor Tasks Like Planning and Equipment Maintenance While it is Cold Outside

On February 4, 2019   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Adam Nunnikhoven, the Tassel Ridge Vineyard Manager, is working on rebuilding an old sprayer so that it can be used to spray lime-sulfur on the vines during March and April. This fungicide stinks and is very corrosive so we don’t want to use a new sprayer to

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Vineyard Crew Focuses on Trellis System Maintenance and Marquette Conversion

On November 19, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

This week, the vineyard crew will be continuing work on trellis system maintenance. We are also starting work on converting some of our Marquette from VSP (vertical shoot positioning) to high wire (single high wire) trellis. We took advice from our vine supplier back in 2006 that

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This Week, Vineyard Team Finishes Up Preparations for Winter

On November 13, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

This week, the vineyard crew will try to get the remaining tasks done required to get the vineyards ready for winter. We still have some trellis damage to fix. We will also clean pickups and tractors and put them away in storage for the winter. We hope

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We Near Completion of Our Vineyard Maintenance for the Season

On October 29, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

Removing the volunteer Mulberry trees has taken what seems like forever, but we are finally down to the last few trees. It’s too bad that we can’t find a use for these trees….telephone pole seeds maybe! The crew at our Tassel Ridge Vineyard will shift to replacing

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Our Vineyard Task This Week is to Finish Up Removing Mulberry Trees From the Vineyard

On October 15, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

The vineyard crew will continue pulling Mulberry trees in the Tassel Ridge vineyard. The very wet ground makes this fairly easy. We will also be spraying fungicide as soon as it gets dry enough. Some of the vineyard team will help bottle Oskyfizzante® Cranberry on Tuesday and

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Vineyard Team Works to Get Annual Vineyard Maintenance Activities Completed Before the Ground Freezes

On October 1, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

The vineyard team will be working hard at removing Mulberry trees from our vineyards at Newport Lane and Tassel Ridge, replacing broken posts at both of those vineyards, and getting all of the vineyards mowed. We will be removing St. Croix vines from two blocks at Tassel

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Vineyard and Equipment Maintenance is Our Focus Now

On September 24, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

With our harvest finished, the vineyard crew moves toward vineyard maintenance activities on a full time basis now to take advantage of good weather. We’ll receive a semi-load of trellis posts and this week will start replacing broken posts at Maple Woods Vineyard. We will be thoroughly power

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Vineyard Crew Will Harvest More Grapes As Soon As They Reach Ripeness

On August 27, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

The vineyard crew is ready to harvest as soon as the fruit tastes good, sugar levels rise, and acid levels drop. We are thinking that it will be St. Pepin, followed by LaCrosse, so we will remove the netting on the St. Pepin the day before we

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Vineyard Crew will Harvest Edelweiss All Week

On August 20, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

We started picking Edelweiss at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. We put the fruit into refrigerated trucks at the Winery so the grapes were ready and waiting for crush to begin Monday morning. We will be picking Edelweiss every day until it is all made into juice. This year’s harvest

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Tassel Ridge Winery

Address:
1681 220th Street
Leighton, IA 50143

Phone:
641.672.WINE (9463)

*Winery Hours:
Monday – Friday: 9AM – 6PM
Saturday: 10AM – 6PM
Sunday: 12PM – 6PM

*See our Event Calendar for special evening event hours.

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