Rockets Glare Rosé® is a sweet rosé with cherry on the nose, bright red cherries on the palate, and green apple on the finish. Made from Sabrevois and La Crosse grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards, pair Rockets Glare Rosé with your favorite spicy foods.
Read more →Sweethearts Rosé from Tassel Ridge Winery is an outstanding Valentine’s Gift. The 500 ml bottle of sweet rosé wine is shaped like a heart and it is a memorable gift. If you are thinking about the perfect wine for that special Valentine’s dinner, consider Iowa Harvest Red
Read more →Weather permitting, we are installing pencil rods (steel rods about ¼ inch in diameter) in several rows of Marquette that we’ve cut off at the ground. We will train the suckers that come up when the ground warms up in the spring up along the pencil rods
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
Read more →Our vines are all dormant and are asleep for the winter. Some of our vineyard staff will take some time off and others will move indoors for the next two months. We are looking for a new source for rooted Steuben cuttings. Our former supplier lost their
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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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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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Simple…sweet…smooth…refreshing…fruity…summery… Enjoying a Tassel Ridge sangria is a wonderful way to embrace summer. A refreshing, wine-based drink, sangria is an excellent way to cool down on a hot summer day. Discover your favorite sangria recipe! These recipes include Tassel Ridge red wines or white wines, such as
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This is the time of year that we engage in purely routine regular tasks like mowing, removing suckers, spraying fungicide, and tying vines to the trellis. When we tie new vines, we are also tying them to the pencil rod so their trunks grow straight up. This
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