We started pruning at Tassel Ridge. More than 50% of the Tassel Ridge vineyard is planted with Edelweiss. Edelweiss has a peculiar habit of wrapping itself along the top wire making long pruning with our mechanical pruner very challenging. But, most of the long pruning will be
Read more →Tassel Ridge Winery won two medals in the new Rosé competition that took place at Simi Winery in Healdsburg, California. The medals were: Steuben―Gold 2013 Iowa St. Croix Rosé―Silver (Brand new wine, see article below for more information) There were two categories: Dry and “A Little Sweet.”
Read more →We received more Concord juice on Monday and as soon as the juice warms up, we will start the fermentation. The cellar team bottled another batch of Red, White, & Blue® last week. We prepared Oskyfizzante® for carbonation and we started that process last Friday, April 3.
Read more →We have finished long pruning at Meadowcreek and Newport Lane Vineyards and will tackle our biggest vineyard at Tassel Ridge this week. We expect to have visitors and hope to have both a still photographer and a video photographer taking pictures of the mechanical pruner in action.
Read more →The cellar team bottled Oskyfizzante® Pink last Tuesday, March 24. This wine is a nice shade of pink with a finish that is very refreshing. Because these bottles have to warm up before they are labeled, we spent a couple of days late in the week getting
Read more →Sweet Roxie Red® is a refreshing, sweet fruity red wine that displays cherry and green apple notes on the nose with cherry and plum on the palate. It is made from a blend of Marquette and Muscat grapes and is both a great sipping wine and a
Read more →We are getting our Newport Lane Vineyard ready for mechanical pruning and then expect to make fast work of this vineyard on Tuesday with our V-Mech system. We will be spraying Sulforix, also known as Lime-Sulfur, a little later in the week. Sulforix is a fungicide that
Read more →Tassel Ridge Winery won Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals at the recent Finger Lakes International Wine Competition in Upstate New York. The winning wines were: 2013 Iowa La Crescent―Gold 2014 Iowa Edelweiss–Silver 2013 Iowa Marquette Rosé―Bronze The Finger Lakes International Wine Competition is an annual event. It
Read more →Governor Branstad declared March 2015 Iowa Wine Month. Celebrate Iowa Wine Month by coming out to Tassel Ridge Winery for a tour, to taste our wine, visit our gift shop, or just to sit and enjoy a glass of wine for an hour or so with a friend
Read more →The Cellar Team attended to the final details for the next batch of Cranberry Wine and then got it filtered and bottled. This batch has a big cranberry nose and while it is very smooth on the palate, it has the cranberry punch on the finish that
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