From Our Vineyard

We expect to finish pruning St. Pepin and Brianna at Newport Lane early in the week. While that hand work is being done, we’ll start mechanically pruning at Tassel Ridge on Tuesday. Then, we will hand prune Brianna at Tassel Ridge. We are frequently asked why we

We will finish hand pruning vines at Newport Lane this week while we start mechanical pruning at Tassel Ridge. We will also get our sprayers ready. The first thing we spray each spring is a fungicide which is largely sulfur. We saturate the trunk of each vine

With the help of nice weather, we are moving right along in pruning the Marquette. By mid-week, we will move into the St. Croix and Frontenac at Meadowcreek Vineyard. Adam hopes to be able to mechanically prune Newport Lane Vineyard by Friday. So, how do we decide

We made good progress with our Marquette vines but have a lot more to prune this week. We will take advantage of the good weather to make a first pass with the mechanical pruner and then return to manually pull out the longer canes and prune all

While some Iowa winters are relatively mild, others are particularly severe with lots of snow and more important, extremely low temperatures. The winter of 2021 is certainly one of the latter. So, not surprisingly, we frequently hear the question: How are the grapes doing? The short and

Our harvester needs a lot of work on the bow rods that shake the fruit off the vines. More accurately, the work is on the mechanism that supports the bow rods. Some parts are being replaced for the first time since we purchased the harvester in about

Work in Tassel Ridge vineyards came to a halt last week. Ground temperatures were so low that we could no longer remove Mulberry Trees without them snapping off at the ground. Unfortunately, a tree that snaps off just grows back….with vigor so we have to pull them

If we can get a windless day, we’ll finish spraying pre-emergent herbicide at Tassel Ridge vineyard. It is also time to blow out the irrigation system in the landscaping around the winery building at Tassel Ridge. We still have some Edelweiss vines to get cut off at

We expect to finish pulling mulberry trees in the Tassel Ridge vineyard this week. When the temperature is below freezing at night, we can only pull trees in the afternoon after it warms up because the trees snap off at the ground and we fail to get

With good weather forecast for this week, we expect to finish pulling the Mulberry trees at Tassel Ridge. We are almost done and finally, this vineyard block no longer looks like a young forest. We will also mow all vineyards. We will start our spraying of herbicide