The supplier of our bottling line arrived on Tuesday for a planned preventative maintenance and training visit. We were excited about that because it was the first time since we installed the line 19 years ago that they have come to show us the details about its
Read more →How do we put our wine in bottles…thousands of them, each year? We use a semi-automated bottling line that with five people can fill and label 25 bottles per minute. The machine rinses each bottle with filtered water and then fills it with food-grade Nitrogen. The bottle
Read more →Who said that Trick or Treating candy was just for kids? Come in and indulge in an adult wine and chocolate pairing with some of your favorite Tassel Ridge wines and chocolate curated by our Tasting Room staff. Tassel Ridge Winery will be offering Wine and Adult
Read more →From time to time, we get questions about why we use screw caps when most wine from California, Oregon, and Washington, for example, is packaged in bottles with cork closures. Back in 2004 when we were making the decision about which kind of a bottle closure we
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A bruschetta with fall flavors for holiday meals and football viewing… This bruschetta is filled with cranberry and apple flavors, perfect for fall, and Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante® Cranberry, with its tart cranberry punch, is a perfect pairing for these fall flavors. A fizzy wine, Oskyfizzante Cranberry is
Read more →Vineyard posts break because they rot off right at the ground level. They are pressure treated and they usually last for at least ten years, but our vineyards are now mature (we started planting in 2002) and the posts still have a finite life. Then, if we
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Looking for a new sangria for tailgating, game watching, or any fall event…try Tassel Ridge® VeryCranBerry Sangria! VeryCranBerry Sangria, made with Tassel Ridge® Cranberry Wine, is a perfect sangria for fall and fall events. Try it with turkey, ham, and even pumpkin desserts, or just sip it
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Strawberries, Crème Anglaise, and Fizzy Pink Wine . . . Strawberries with Crème Anglaise make an elegant dessert, and Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante Pink, a sweet, refreshing, fruity, fizzy wine with tropical fruit aromas, make dessert a celebration!
Read more →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
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