We will start this week by removing suckers that appear annually at the base of healthy vines. Sometimes suckers emerge right at the soil line and other times, they grow from the trunk below the soil line. In either situation, they are quite brittle and break off
Read more →Try a new Pork recipe made with Red, White, & Blue for the upcoming Holiday! This Cranberry-Grape Reduction adds new flavors to Pork Loin and well-chilled Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue with its strong grape flavors. It is a perfect pairing for Tassel Ridge Pork Loin
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Red, White, & Blue® is a traditional sweet, Concord-based blend with strong grape flavors reminiscent of grape jelly. An outstanding sipping wine, Red, White, & Blue is best served chilled. Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue is available at the Winery and at over 400 retailers in Iowa.
Read more →Most of our Marquette and all of the La Crescent are trellised on a VSP or vertical shoot positioning trellis system. The objective of this system is to assure that the fruit and most of the leaves are exposed to morning sun on the east side of
Read more →Are you buying a Father’s Day gift for someone who likes dry red wines? Tassel Ridge Winery offers ten different dry red wines ranging in price from $11 to $30. The ultimate Father’s Day Gift is a selection of two 2008 Iowa St. Croix, two 2020 Iowa
Read more →Warm evenings, Grilled Salmon Salad, & Star Spangled White® Warm evenings are finally here! Start your list of outdoor dining recipes with Tassel Ridge Grilled Salmon Salad. The oranges, apples, and raspberry vinaigrette in this salad make Tassel Ridge Star Spangled White with pineapple, melon, and pear
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Star Spangled White® is a sweet white wine with pineapple, melon, and pear on the nose and candied pineapple and pear on the palate. This wine is made entirely from Edelweiss grapes. Pair with apple and pear desserts or blue vein cheese. Enjoy Star Spangled White alone
Read more →This week, we bottled 2021 Iowa Petite Pearl and the 2020 Iowa Marquette. The first step was to run Nitrogen through both wines in order to remove any dissolved Oxygen in the wine before bottling. Then, on Wednesday, we bottled both the 2021 Iowa Petite Pearl and
Read more →Our grapevines are in bloom. Compared to daffodils or tulips, their blooms are very unimpressive as the attached photo shows. First of all, each flower is very small and second, it is only at the pollinating stage for 2–3 days. You have to look quick. Initially, each
Read more →On Wednesday, we canned 7,000 twelve-ounce cans of Red, White, & Blue for the first time. Whenever we do something for the first time, we encounter all sorts of unknowns. This time was no exception because after we got the run completed, we learned that the UPC
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