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Vineyard Crew is Finishing Up Pruning, Starting Trellis Maintenance

On April 30, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

The vineyard staff has about 26,000 of 38,000 vines pruned. All pruning now is final pruning. The chances of a hard freeze yet this spring are dropping every day. Nonetheless, we are keeping our eyes open to the possibility of a freeze. We have vines at Newport

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Final Short Pruning is Underway in Three Vineyards, Vines Coming Out of Dormancy

On April 23, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

We will short prune vines at Meadowcreek and Newport Lane. Spraying lime-sulfur on our dormant vines is a stinky (rotten eggs) job that we do annually and are starting this week. And we will be mulching up the Tassel Ridge vineyard. We now have all 38,000 of

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We Are Racking and Transferring Wine to Free Up Tank Space for Blending While We Wait to Get Our Filter Operational

On April 23, 2018   /   Action in the Cellar, Newsletter Articles  

We’ve borrowed a cross flow filter that we hope to have operational within the next week or two. It is double the size of our filter, so we’re having to make some electrical changes to accommodate it. We have ordered a new pump for our own filter.

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Vineyard Crew Dodges the Rain Drops and Makes Good Progress Pruning

On April 3, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

The vineyard crew is making good progress cleaning out long canes and dead wood in the Edelweiss and Sabrevois at Tassel Ridge. They hope the weather will allow them to finish this week. They will mechanically prune the rest of the vineyards next. Most people I talk

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Pruning Progressing on Schedule

On March 26, 2018   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

This week, we will continue to clean out the canes we have cut with the mechanical pruner in our Edelweiss and Sabrevois at Tassel Ridge. We have about 20 acres or 11,000 vines of these grape varieties so this project is taking some time. So far, we’ve

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Fizzy Wines are Very Popular from Christmas through Valentine’s Day

On December 22, 2017   /   Featured Article, Newsletter Articles, Wine  

Fizzy wines with bubbles in them get included in many celebrations from Christmas through Valentine’s Day each year. For many people, these wines are all lumped into what they call Champagne. But, there are many different types of fizzy wines and are sold under different names. Naming

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Check Out the Tassel Ridge App!

On December 11, 2017   /   Featured Article, Newsletter Articles  

Check out the new Tassel Ridge Winery app! It’s free and available on both iTunes and Google Play. This app can help you find the retail locations of your favorite wine(s). You can also check to see when wine and food events are happening at Tassel Ridge!

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We Continue to Remove Vines for Two New York Grape Varieties and Cabernet Franc from Tassel Ridge Vineyard

On November 13, 2017   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

About ten years ago, we planted about 60 vines each of two different grape varieties developed by the Geneva Research Station in Upstate New York and also about 60 Cabernet Franc, the most cold hardy vinifera or temperate climate grape variety out there. The New York varieties

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We Pressed Iowa Prairie Snow® Last Week

On November 13, 2017   /   Action in the Cellar, Newsletter Articles  

Last week, we pressed our Iowa Prairie Snow®. We’d harvested the grapes right at the beginning of harvest starting August 2, 2017 and then took them to a locker for freezing. We left them at the locker until we could take a day or two to press

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Vineyard Team is Starting to Spray Herbicides and is Applying Potassium Under the Vines

On November 7, 2017   /   From Our Vineyard, Newsletter Articles  

Now that the first hard frosts have sent the vines into dormancy, the vineyard team is starting to spray herbicides to kill weeds and grass that grow under the vines and compete for moisture and nutrients. This is one thing we can do now that will increase

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Tassel Ridge Winery

Address:
1681 220th Street
Leighton, IA 50143

Phone:
641.672.WINE (9463)

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Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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