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
Read more →We continue to fine various batches of white wines in order to get them ready for bottling. We are cold stabilizing Edelweiss in two different ranks. We’ve moved our Muscat into the Winery from the outdoor tank and are beginning to taste the Muscat in order to
Read more →Harvest Club members receive a shipment of two bottles of wine four times a year. Each Harvest Club shipment has a pre-determined selection of two dry wines, two sweet wines, or one of each. Harvest Club Selections Members will be notified by mail or e-mail about upcoming
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Read more →We will bottle our last batch of Oskyfizzante® Pink on Tuesday and follow that with bottling of 2018 Iowa Nouveau on Wednesday. We continue racking and fining wines that we will bottle almost every Wednesday now until the end of the year. Many of these bottling sessions
Read more →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
Read more →We will finish carbonation of another batch of Oskyfizzante Cranberry and then bottle it this week. We will also filter and start carbonation of the last batch of Oskyfizzante Cranberry. And, we will bottle a small batch of Cranberry Wine in our Christmas tree bottles. We are
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →The cellar team will bottle the very popular Oskyfizzante® Cranberry on Tuesday. They will be monitoring carbonation of Oskyfizzante® Pink while they also monitor fermentation of the Muscat that just arrived from California. Some wines need to be fined and we’ll get fining agents into these wines
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