We finished harvest last week. It was the lightest harvest we have had for several years. One reason is that we left a lot of fruit hanging because we didn’t need it for our own production. We sold much of what we harvested. In addition, our vines
Read more →We harvested Petite Pearl on Monday. We still have Itasca, Verona, Foch, and Steuben to harvest and should have all except the Steuben harvested by the end of this week. Protecting our ripening grapes from hungry birds is a major challenge. We used to use propane cannons
Read more →The Crimson Pearl is a small batch from the Tassel Ridge Vineyard. It has some very nice flavors and we are interested to see what we can do with it. It might make an outstanding dessert wine. We will use the Foch (which we purchased from another
Read more →We have already harvested LaCrosse, Brianna, Edelweiss, La Crescent, Marquette, and Frontenac. We were very disappointed with the quantity and quality of the LaCrosse so we decided to dump those grapes. The Brianna, Edelweiss, and La Crescent were outstanding and we sold what we harvested. The Marquette
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Iowa Edelweiss is a fruity, semi-sweet white wine that offers orange, pear, and pineapple hints on both the nose and palate. It is great served chilled and simply sipped. And, it enhances spicy Asian stir-fry or a traditional family dinner of glazed ham studded with pineapple. All of
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Looking for a New Chicken Recipe? Try Honey Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry and pair it with Tassel Ridge® Iowa Edelweiss! The sweetness from the honey in this recipe pairs well with a semi-sweet white wine. Tassel Ridge Iowa Edelweiss, a semi-sweet white wine with the scent of
Read more →We started our harvest last week by handpicking the LaCrosse at Maple Woods Vineyard. A lot of the vines are young but we were still disappointed with both the amount of fruit and the quality. The bees were attacking the fruit with a vengeance so we were
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Chill with a Blackberry Fizz! The jammy flavors in Tassel Ridge® Blackberry Wine and the fizz in Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante® Iowa White make a fun, fizzy, fruity cold drink!
Read more →Relatively cool summer weather is causing the grapes to ripen very slowly this year. Brianna is usually our first grape to harvest and it is still very sour. We are thinking now that we may not start harvest until the last week of August at the earliest.
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Looking for a different Burger for Game Watching? Try a Greek Feta Burger paired with Tassel Ridge Iowa Silky St. Croix!
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