By: Bob Wersen As the weather warms up and you start thinking about dining outside on your patio or balcony, ideas about the kinds of meals to eat begin to change. Think about more Asian stir-fries; Mexican foods, like tacos and enchiladas; a spicy couscous with harissa
Read more →We bottle our first batch of Iowa Sweet & Snazzy™ this week and a second batch next week. We will release this wine on July 5. It is a sweet fruity wine that is great for picnics and outdoor grilling. We will carefully measure the dissolved oxygen
Read more →With the help of nice weather, we are moving right along in pruning the Marquette. By mid-week, we will move into the St. Croix and Frontenac at Meadowcreek Vineyard. Adam hopes to be able to mechanically prune Newport Lane Vineyard by Friday. So, how do we decide
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Ready for a Patio Picnic? Try Mediterranean Beef Pitas! Ready for a Patio Picnic (or an Indoor Picnic if it’s still not quite warm enough to dine on your patio)? These Mediterranean Beef Pitas paired with semi-sweet Tassel Ridge American Pink Catawba are perfect for any picnic.
Read more →We have fermentations of Catawba and Concord going now. We’ll be adding the lag nutrients to keep the yeasts happy. We will also be bottling another batch of Red, White, & Blue® and getting yet another batch filtered after cold stabilization and ready for bottling next week.
Read more →We made good progress with our Marquette vines but have a lot more to prune this week. We will take advantage of the good weather to make a first pass with the mechanical pruner and then return to manually pull out the longer canes and prune all
Read more →Enjoy the glimmer of spring with Tassel Ridge Carnitas Tacos Balance the sharp spices in these Carnitas Tacos with fruity notes in Tassel Ridge Iowa St. Croix Rosé.
Read more →Warm up with spicy Tassel Ridge® Blackened Turkey Burgers! These Blackened Turkey Burgers have big fire from the spices, and Tassel Ridge Iowa Candleglow® Red, a sweet, fruity red wine, will put the fire out!
Read more →While some Iowa winters are relatively mild, others are particularly severe with lots of snow and more important, extremely low temperatures. The winter of 2021 is certainly one of the latter. So, not surprisingly, we frequently hear the question: How are the grapes doing? The short and
Read more →This week, we will bottle Iowa Lace. This is a wine made from La Crescent grapes grown in our vineyards. Before we bottle, we will be doing a dissolved oxygen (DO) test to make sure that the DO level is as low as we want it. If
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