The warm temperatures we’ve been experiencing have promoted flowering of our vines. Forget right now about picking a bouquet of grapevine flowers. These flowers are REALLY small and not pretty. Only a grape vine loves them! Anyhow, each flower is almost 1/8 of an inch high and
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Now that warm weather is here, are you relaxing more on your deck or patio or maybe even at the lake or your favorite campground? Try this Tropical Fruit Salsa and well-chilled Star Spangled White® with your favorite chips or as the finishing touch for chicken or
Read more →We finished pruning last week and now one person is dedicated to mowing and another to spraying fungicide. The rest of our vineyard crew will work to get our Marquette tucked up into the catch wires and then we’ll work on removing suckers from the Edelweiss and
Read more →We will start work this week to return the cellar to where things were located prior to resurfacing the concrete floors. The acid in the wine and the cleaning chemicals we use (Potassium Metabisulfate and Citric Acid) help us keep our tanks, hoses, pumps, and other equipment
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Cool down with Tassel Ridge Star Spangled White Sangria. Made with blueberries, strawberries, and star-shaped apple slices, it’s sweet, refreshing, and fun.
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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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End your holiday celebration on a sweet, fruity note with Rockets Glare Rose Cake. Pair this moist, delicious strawberry flavored cake with a glass of Tassel Ridge Rockets Glare Rose and make dessert even more special.
Read more →We will bottle small batches of both Iowa In the Dark and the 2019 Iowa Marquette on Tuesday. We are getting the small batches of Iowa Louise Swenson and Iowa St. Pepin ready for bottling within the next few weeks. We are also working on another batch
Read more →Let’s explore the most important grape varieties grown in Iowa. The most important Northern Climate varieties are mostly hybrids between Vitis riperia and other native American grape varieties. Some Northern Climate varieties also contain a Vitis vinifera component. Vitis vinifera is grown in temperate climates and it
Read more →Iowa farmers have been growing grapes since the 1850s. Initially, grapes were grown around kitchen gardens for consumption by the farmer’s family. Gradually, farmers in both Southeast and Southwest Iowa were growing grapes for sale outside the State of Iowa. In Southwest Iowa, the grapes were delivered
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