Chocolate, Fizzy Pink Wine, & Valentine’s! Chocolate Pots de Crème is elegant, chocolaty, sweet, and perfect with Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante® Pink and Valentine’s celebrations.
Read more →On Wednesday, we bottled the 2023 Iowa Edelweiss and next week, we will bottle our Oskyfizzante® Iowa White. We will start carbonating the Oskyfizzante Iowa White on Friday. We routinely check the SO2 on wines in our tanks to make sure that there is enough to prevent
Read more →We are taking advantage of the warming trend to get back out into our Sabrevois blocks at Maple Woods Vineyards to do finish pruning. We rough pruned these vines in December. Both trucks and tractors are being fixed and we have been working on equipment in the
Read more →You can make a Valentine’s dinner special by including Tassel Ridge wines in the event. If you are the guest, consider bringing the host or hostess a bottle of Tassel Ridge Sweethearts Rosé as a special gift. This wine is packaged in a 500 ml heart-shaped bottle
Read more →The dry, red wines described below are all light-bodied and they all complement a wide range of cold weather foods like pastas, stews, roasts, and steaks. All of these wines should be served at room temperature. Iowa Pizzeria & Pasta Too!® is a dry, red blend with
Read more →Monday–Saturday 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Sunday 12:00–5:00 p.m. Freshly Baked Bread with your choice of Tassel Ridge® Dipping Oils—Half-Loaf of Bread and 1 Dipping Oil ($6); Full Loaf of Bread and 2 Dipping Oils ($11); Salsa Trio with Black Bean Salsa, Spicy Corn Relish, and House-Made Salsa ($9);
Read more →Iowa Harvest Red is a dry red with plum and black cherry aromas and notes on the palate along with nice acid followed by a long, complex finish. Iowa Harvest Red is made from Marquette and Marechal Foch grapes grown in our Iowa vineyards. Iowa Harvest Red
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Warm up with Baked Manicotti and Tassel Ridge Iowa Pizzeria & Pasta Too! This Baked Manicotti has acid from tomatoes and savory flavors from the seasonings and garlic. Iowa Pizzeria & Pasta Too!, a dry red with aromas of blackberry and cherry and very fruity raspberry and
Read more →The temperature as I write this article has not gotten above 0°F all day and it is a good reminder of why we grow Cold Climate Grape Varieties in Iowa. Vitis vinifera vines (which includes grape varieties like Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon) will freeze off at the
Read more →The genetics in our Cold Climate grape varieties combine to present some major challenges in wine making. The first is that juice from our varieties tend to have very high acid levels. One common way to manage high acid levels is to let the grapes hang until
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