We have several fermentations going on with the juice that we brought in from upstate New York. Over the weekend, we added the lab nutrients to two of these fermentations. We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue® on Wednesday and then get Cranberry Wine
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Last week and in spite of very muddy conditions, the vineyard crew finished pruning our nine acre Marquette vineyard and the one acre of vines in our test plot at Meadowcreek East. The first step was to go through the vineyard with our mechanical pruner. We did
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Enjoy a glass of Tassel Ridge wine ($6–$9) with your favorites from one of our Wine Small Plates Menus. This week is Wine and Irish-Mex Fusion Small Plates, next week is Wine & Casual Asian Plates Evening to celebrate National Noodle Month, and on March 28 is
Read more →We took advantage of the warm weather over the weekend and started our pruning for 2019 on Monday. The Marquette vineyard is basically a sheet of ice and when the ice melts, it will be a sea of mud! So, as a precaution, we used our mechanical
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Tassel Ridge Winery won six medals at the Florida State Fair Wine Competition in early February for the following wines: Gold Red, White, & Blue® Gold Blackberry Wine Silver 2016 Iowa Brianna Bronze Iowa Edelweiss Bronze Iowa Candleglow® White Bronze Cranberry Wine If you have not tried
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We will bottle Rockets Glare Rosé® on Wednesday. We finished fermentation of a batch of American Pink Catawba and will be cold stabilizing a batch of Red, White, & Blue®.
Read more →We were going to start pruning on March 1, but the cold weather has delayed that until late this week, assuming it warms up to about 30°F. Weather permitting, we’ll be going flat-out pruning for the next two months. For a quick view of what is involved
Read more →Shamrocks and leprechauns are a traditional pairing in March, but at Tassel Ridge Winery you’ll find that a Wine & Cheese Pairing is much tastier! We’ve paired five Tassel Ridge wines with five different Frisian Farms Iowa cheeses (sorry, none of them are green). Taste all five
Read more →Iowa Marquette Rosé is a dry, full-bodied rosé with bright cherry, strawberry, citrus, and peach on the nose and strawberry, raspberry, and cherry on the palate. Made from Marquette grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards, this versatile rosé will pair with a large range of
Read more →The extremely cold weather we’ve experienced over the past three weeks is starting to worry us that we may have incurred damage to trunks and cordons of our vines. The problem is that we aren’t going to know for sure until just before harvest. The reason is
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