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Vineyard Manager Looks at Labor Saving Machinery and Gets Equipment Ready for the 2022 Grape Growing Season

On January 20, 2022   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

One of the tasks that takes a lot of our vineyard crew’s time is removal of the large and growing number of Mulberry trees that start to grow each season. They grow fast and have a tap root that must come out because otherwise, it will regrow

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Our Vineyard Crew Mechanically Prunes in All Four Vineyards

On December 22, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Our vineyard crew will take advantage of the good weather to mechanically prune select varieties in all four vineyards. We early prune grape varieties that are least likely to bud out early when temperatures warm up in April. They include St. Croix, Frontenac, Sabrevois, and Brianna. After

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We Take Advantage of the Warm Weather to work Outdoors on the Marquette Trellis

On December 16, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We started this week working on the Marquette trellis in unusually nice weather for December. When we were pruning the Marquette, it was clear that the trellis really needed some attention. We needed to fix some wires that had broken, replace staples that had pulled out, and

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We Take Advantage of Good Weather to Get a Start on Mechanical Pruning of Marquette Vines

On December 8, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

The vineyard crew started mechanical pruning of our Marquette vines with the mechanized sprawl pruner. This takes three people with one person driving the tractor that pulls the V-mech mechanical platform and two people in the V-mech. One person prunes the right hand row while the other

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Vineyard Crew is Finishing Post Replacement and Mulberry Tree Removal at Meadowcreek Vineyard

On November 11, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

The vineyard crew is finishing replacing broken posts and removing Mulberry trees at Meadowcreek Vineyard this week. If they get done before the end of the week, they will move to Tassel Ridge Vineyard where we have lots of trees to remove. Now that the ground temperature

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We Welcome Rain in the Vineyards Now

On October 27, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Our vines are welcoming the rain but they are all getting ready for a long winter’s sleep. The leaves are getting both darker and in some varieties more yellow, but are still hanging on. A couple of cold nights below 32°F and a windy day will leave

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Our Vineyard Crew Takes Advantage of Damp Vineyard Conditions to Remove Trees and Replace Posts in Vineyards

On October 21, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

Removing Mulberry Trees in the vineyard is challenging because they have to be pulled by the roots. So, damp ground makes it all much easier. While we are pulling Mulberry trees, if we encounter a post that has rotted off at the ground, we will dig it

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Replacing Posts and Removing Mulberry Trees Occupy Our Time These Days

On October 14, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

The recent rain storms have softened the ground and are making it easier to remove broken posts and Mulberry Trees. We are taking full advantage of the moist ground and are making steady progress with both posts and trees. We have used our rainy days to get

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Vineyard Crew Performs Post-Harvest Tasks While Getting Vineyards Ready for Winter

On October 4, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We are working on pulling posts that were broken during harvest and then replacing them with new posts. The Vineyard crew has finished spraying for the season so we are getting our sprayers cleaned up, winterized with anti-freeze in tanks, and then put away in the appropriate

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Vineyard Crew Works This Week on Post-Harvest Maintenance

On September 29, 2021   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter, Newsletter Articles  

We always manage to break trellis posts during harvest and this week, we’ll try to get them all replaced.  This is just hard work. We have to dig the base of the old post out and we slip a new post down in its place. Then 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.

*See our Event Calendar for special evening event hours.

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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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