Two wines from Tassel Ridge Winery, Iowa Candleglow® White and 2014 Iowa La Crescent, scored highly in the May Midwest Wine Review. Iowa Candleglow White ranked #2 and 2014 Iowa La Crescent ranked #6 among the top ten wines featured in the article, “May 2019—Heart of the
Read more →We are performing final touches to our new 2018 Iowa Harvest Red blend and will bottle it this week. We will release it in September to our Harvest Club. It will be available in our tasting room later in the year. We are finishing up our Oskyfizzante®
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Most of our vines are at one stage or another of blooming. Just prior to bloom, vines have “bunches” of tiny tight buds that look like little grapes. The outer casing on each bud will drop off, the stamen (pollen producing part of the flower) extends to
Read more →Friday & Saturday, June 21 & 22 Wine Dinner & Murder Mystery 6:00 p.m.—Wine Tasting 6:30 p.m.—Dinner Seating & Show Reservations Required by 3:00 p.m. on June 19 Tassel Ridge® Winery is the place to be for wine, dinner, and mystery when Jest Murder Mystery Co. presents
Read more →We are finishing up on our production of our very popular Red, White, & Blue® for this season and will bottle another batch this week. We are also cold stabilizing Oskyfizzante® Pink. That means that we will chill it way down to about 25°F and then put
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We will start the week by finishing pruning of all vines at Newport Lane Vineyard. Then, we’ll start tucking the VSP trellised Marquette and La Crescent vines at Meadowcreek Vineyards. What this means is that the canes are trained to grow upward on these vines and we
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Doing a little camping this summer? Stop out at Tassel Ridge® Winery—with many wines to choose from you will surely find something to love! Our Oskyfizzante® Pink pairs perfectly with S’mores! Discover a new Tassel Ridge wine and check out some of our favorite Local Attractions.
Read more →We will be pruning St Croix, St. Pepin, Brianna, and Foch at Newport Lane Vineyard this week. 28,000 of our 38,000 vines have been pruned. We have delayed shipment of new vines from the nursery in Southeastern Vermont to allow our vineyards to dry out. We removed
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Aerating wine is one of the best ways to “open up” or soften a big, full-bodied dry red wine. However, simply opening the bottle an hour before serving doesn’t expose the wine to the amount of air needed to have any real influence on the wine. To
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We received juice to make American Steuben, Cranberry Wine, and American Pink Catawba on Monday and will start fermentations as soon as the juice temperatures get to about 60°F. Our titrator is all of a sudden not functioning, so we have to send all of our wine
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