Star Spangled White® is a sweet white wine with pineapple, melon, and pear on the nose and candied pineapple and pear on the palate. This wine is made entirely from Edelweiss grapes. Pair with apple and pear desserts or blue vein cheese. Enjoy Star Spangled White alone
Read more →If you usually drink red or white wines, but would like to try something different, try a rosé wine. Tassel Ridge Winery offers nine different rosés with varying degrees of sweetness, ranging from fully dry to very sweet. Rosé wines are a nice compromise between red and
Read more →Oskyfizzante® Pink is a refreshing, sweet, fizzy wine with tropical fruit aromas including pineapple and lychee, followed by green apple and citrus on the palate. Pair Oskyfizzante Pink with a wide range of appetizers. Serve chilled. Chill, open, and celebrate! Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante Pink is available at
Read more →Oskyfizzante® Red is a refreshing, semi-sweet, fruity, and fizzy red wine. It displays cherry and green apple notes on the nose with cherry and plum on the palate. Pair with spicy appetizers or just chill, open, and celebrate! Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante Red is available at the Winery
Read more →One of the pumps in our cross-flow filter failed about three weeks ago, and we have not been able to bottle since. We have a temporary fix on that pump until replacement parts arrive from Germany in early March. So, we are starting to catch up this
Read more →We bottled about 140 cases of Oskyfizzante Iowa White on Tuesday. This is a slow process because it is all done by hand. We can’t use our bottling line on fizzy wines. And, it is a two-step process because we have to fill the bottles, wait at
Read more →We are doing a bit of hand pruning when weather and other priorities permit. Adam’s goal is to get two rows of Marquette pruned each day. These vines have already been machine-pruned so these are the finishing touches. Our harvester has sprung a small oil leak. We
Read more →We are doing oil changes on a tractor and a Gator housed at Maple Woods Vineyard. We have also started researching additional vineyard mechanization. Our V-Mech pre-pruner does a good job but it requires three people to operate: one in the tractor and two on the V-Mech.
Read more →We bottled the 2022 Iowa Edelweiss on Wednesday and will be bottling our very popular Star Spangled White® over the next three weeks. We received more Concord and Cranberry juice this week and as soon as it warms up, we will start fermenting both batches of juice.
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Sangria that’s perfect for Fall, Tailgating, and Game Watching! VeryCranBerry Sangria, made with Tassel Ridge® Cranberry Wine, is a perfect sangria for fall. Try it with turkey, ham, and even pumpkin desserts.
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