We have torn apart our bottling system and replaced washers and O’rings in several places. We will celebrate the completion of that task with a bottling of Red, White, & Blue this week. Our team have their fingers crossed that everything works right. We will also be getting
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Read more →Several batches of the very popular Red, White, & Blue have finished fermenting. We will rack the wine off yeast lees. This means that the wine will be pumped from one tank to another while leaving behind the sludge (dead yeast cells). We’ll then clean out the
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Jonita will speak at Grandfather’s Barn at the Iowa State Fair about La Crescent on Wednesday. Come and see us. The floors in the cellar are squeaky clean after Jonita and her crew got them cleaned within an inch of their lives. I find that I can
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We will be bottling a batch of our very popular American Steuben this week. Another bottling run of Oskyfizzante® Cranberry will follow late in the week. These runs will empty tanks we will need as we start to process fruit to be harvested this year. Our cellar
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All of the grapes in our four vineyards are in veraison now. That means that they are changing color from a milky green to a translucent yellow-green or to purple. More important, the amount of malic acid in the grape is dropping and the sugar is increasing.
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Tassel Ridge offers seven different flavors of Wine-A-Ritas. All you need is the mix, ice, wine, and a blender to create a fun and delicious frozen wine drink. Try all seven and discover your favorite! Wine-A-Rita mixes are $12 each (wine sold separately). Wine-A-Ritas with Tassel Ridge
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We are bottling our first batch of the very popular Oskyfizzante® Cranberry this week. We have also just finished cold stabilizing a batch of American Steuben and will rack that wine off cream of tartar. We will get it bottled in the next week or so. Preventative
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Although the start of harvest is 2–4 weeks in the future, we are already thinking about steps we must take to be ready. We are doing preventative maintenance on machinery and equipment right now. We planted about 1,500 new vines this year and now is the time
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