Celebrate the season with Cranberry-Almond Brie en Croute and Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante® Cranberry. This Cranberry-Almond Brie en Croute makes an impressive appetizer for fall gatherings, beautifully complemented by the tart fizzy notes of Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante Cranberry wine.
Read more →
The weather is getting cooler…warm up with Seared Beef and Iowa In the Dark! The sauce in this recipe gets lots of big flavors from the cilantro, garlic, and hoisin sauce, and Tassel Ridge Iowa In the Dark has the perfect amount of body to showcase these
Read more →Tassel Ridge Finalé Bonbons are a decadent chocolate treat and they have just arrived for the season. Two different bonbons are available: dark chocolate with Finalé Raspberry cream and milk chocolate with Finalé Blackberry cream. The filling for both bonbons are made with Tassel Ridge Finalé dessert
Read more →While we are not yet done pulling trees, we are making good progress. We will also remove about 600 old Sabrevois vines that we have not harvested fruit from for several years. We have no immediate plans to replace these vines but we will keep the space
Read more →We have made nice progress in pulling trees and shrubs from our vineyard at Tassel Ridge. We have more work to do and will continue until we are done or bad weather stops us. We also are spraying fungicide in all of our vineyards in order to
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
Read more →
Spice up dinner with Penne Arrabbiata paired with Tassel Ridge Iowa Harvest Red. Arrabbiata means angry in Italian. The “angry” part in this recipe is the spice created by the crushed red pepper (which you can adjust to taste), and Tassel Ridge Iowa Harvest Red, a dry
Read more →We returned macro-bins and other equipment to the warehouse, transferred wine back to the Winery and then went to work removing trees in the Tassel Ridge Vineyard. We hit weed removal under the vines hard and then realized that our weed eaters need to be repaired so
Read more →We had numerous fermentations going and we monitored and fed Sabrevois and La Crescent fermentations while doing regular punch downs on the Sabrevois. We punch down the cap that forms on the top of the fermenting red wine every day in order to assure that grape skins
Read more →We started by moving harvest equipment back to the warehouse for the winter. We did maintenance work on some equipment prior to returning it to the warehouse. Then, we resumed pulling trees at Tassel Ridge Vineyard (where we have a lot of work to do). We started
Read more →