We finally got out into the Maple Woods vineyard on Wednesday to finish pruning LaCrosse and to prune St. Pepin. We are very careful about working in the vineyards when there is any possibility of a storm that might include lightning. The reason is that the wire
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Salmon Tacos & Rockets Glare Rosé®…a Spicy-Sweet Pairing! These Salmon Tacos have lots of flavor and can be very spicy, especially with the optional jalapeños. Rockets Glare Rosé, our sweet rosé, is a perfect pairing to tame the spice and heat!
Read more →The Tassel Ridge Rockets Glare Rosé won the Best of Show medal at the American Fine Wine Rosé competition in Florida this week. Rockets Glare Rosé is a sweet rosé with cherry on the nose, bright red cherries on the palate, and green apple on the finish.
Read more →Rosés are perfect for warm weather and lighter meals. Try any of these Tassel Ridge® Rosés ranging from dry to sweet along with the suggested recipe pairings or with your favorite lighter foods: 2013 Iowa St. Croix Rosé with Grilled Jerk Chicken; American Pink Catawba with Mediterranean
Read more →We finished pruning our Foch vines on Monday and then moved to Maple Woods to prune St. Pepin and LaCrosse. While we prune the vines, we remove the suckers and tie up the vines to the trellis. Our Steuben vines will come next…maybe early next week and
Read more →I’ll share a couple of ideas for Mother’s Day Gifts. The first is Sweethearts Rosé in the heart-shaped bottle. While perfect for Valentine’s Day gift giving, it is also perfect for a Mother’s Day gift. This wine is available only at Tassel Ridge Winery. Another idea is
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Tassel Ridge® Frozen Strawberry Rosé is perfect with the Warm and even Hot Weather Ahead! Tassel Ridge Sweet Roxie Red®, a refreshing, sweet, fruity red wine with cherry and citrus on the nose and sweet cherry and candied fruits on the palate, is the perfect wine for
Read more →Sweet Roxie Red® is a refreshing, semi-sweet, fruity red wine with cherry and citrus on the nose and sweet cherry and candied fruits on the palate. Made from a blend of Marquette grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards and Muscat. Sweet Roxie Red is a
Read more →Although we are not bottling this week, both Red, White, & Blue and Star Spangled White are being filtered to get them ready. We filter all of our wines using a cross-flow filter. Our cross-flow filter has four large cylinders that are approximately six inches in diameter
Read more →Between the rain drops, we are continuing with fine pruning (done manually) with Brianna, Edelweiss, Verona, and Itasca as priorities. We have lots of Edelweiss so this pruning is going to take some time. We remove the suckers that emerge from the base of the vine at
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