Usually, when I think about the wine I want to pair with a summer bar-b-que, I think first about the meat I’m going to grill and that leads me to a dry red wine. But, the summer grilling menu usually includes more than meat AND the temperatures
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Many people are surprised to learn that Tassel Ridge Winery makes dry red wines. Our American Merlot is big, robust, and earthy. Our American Syrah is balanced and rich. American Merlot is a dry red wine with red and black fruit and oaky notes on the nose.
Read more →We will be mowing and spraying as needed and we will install pencil rods and grow tubes on our new vines that are already planted as soon as the pencil rods arrive. We are getting our La Crescent blocks cleaned up. We had quite a bit of
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Not a Margarita…but a Wine-A-Rita! All you need is the mix, ice, wine, and a blender to create a fun and delicious frozen wine drink. Enjoy with your 4th of July celebration! $12 each. Wine-A-Ritas with Tassel Ridge wine recommendations: Blueberry Pomegranate with American Pink Catawba CosmoRita with
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On Tuesday, we will bottle a batch of Oskyfizzante® Pink and then label and install the cap-sleeves later in the week. We will also get the next batch of Oskyfizzante Pink carbonated and ready for bottling next week. Oskyfizzante Pink is our very popular sweet, pink, fizzy
Read more →Our vineyard team planted all of the new Verona and Itasca vines last week and we got most of our vineyards sprayed with fungicide. We’ll try to finish spraying fungicide this week if the weather cooperates. This week, we will plant about 1,000 Steuben vines which we
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Planting has begun at Tassel Ridge Winery! Watch the video here to see exactly how it is done! From drilling the holes to planting the vines…watch this short video to see how grape vines get their start.
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We got started planting about 850 new Verona and 850 new Itasca vines this week. Verona will make a red wine with very prominent raspberry notes. This new (to us) variety was developed by Tom Plocher in East-Central Minnesota. Itasca will produce a white wine which we
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Need a little something to quench your thirst? Tassel Ridge Winery offers several Sangria recipes made with your favorite Iowa wine! There are several varieties to choose from. Click here to go to our recipes page to find out how to quench your summer thirst with Sangrias
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Two wines from Tassel Ridge Winery, Iowa Candleglow® White and 2014 Iowa La Crescent, scored highly in the May Midwest Wine Review. Iowa Candleglow White ranked #2 and 2014 Iowa La Crescent ranked #6 among the top ten wines featured in the article, “May 2019—Heart of the
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