Is there such a thing as Taco Thursday? If not, then there is now! Join us on Thursday night, July 11 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for Taco Thursday! Begin with Chips and Salsa, then choose your favorite tacos and pair with your favorite Tassel Ridge®
Read more →We will be mowing and spraying as needed and we will install pencil rods and grow tubes on our new vines that are already planted as soon as the pencil rods arrive. We are getting our La Crescent blocks cleaned up. We had quite a bit of
Read more →We will be pruning St Croix, St. Pepin, Brianna, and Foch at Newport Lane Vineyard this week. 28,000 of our 38,000 vines have been pruned. We have delayed shipment of new vines from the nursery in Southeastern Vermont to allow our vineyards to dry out. We removed
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We received juice to make American Steuben, Cranberry Wine, and American Pink Catawba on Monday and will start fermentations as soon as the juice temperatures get to about 60°F. Our titrator is all of a sudden not functioning, so we have to send all of our wine
Read more →All of our 38,500 vines have been long pruned (most of them mechanically) and now we have the Marquette, Brianna, and Edelweiss that need to be short pruned. As of last Friday, about 50% of the vines had started to leaf out although the cool, wet weather
Read more →The cold snap late last week illustrates the judgment required to know when and how much to prune grapes in Iowa. It is essential to prune grapes annually in the spring because without pruning, they would attempt to produce far more grapes than possible without damaging and
Read more →The colder weather has sent the vines into dormancy so we can now spray herbicide under the vines at Newport Lane. It also means we can spray herbicide to control broadleaved weeds in-between the vines at Newport Lane and Maple Woods. We will also be spraying pre-emergent herbicides at
Read more →This week, we expect to finish replacing posts at Meadow Creek and then focus on removing trees growing in our Marquette vineyard. We’ve taken advantage of cooler temperatures to start spraying fungicide in all vineyards. This week, we’ll finish up at Meadowcreek and then spray Maple Woods.
Read more →In addition to being a place where we grow grapes, our vineyards also attract a range of trees like cottonwoods and mulberries. We don’t want these and other “foreign” trees and plants in the vineyard because they compete with the grapes for water and nutrients in dry
Read more →In addition to being a place where we grow grapes, our vineyards also attract a range of trees like Cottonwoods and Mulberries. We don’t want these and other “foreign” trees and plants in the vineyard because they compete with the grapes in dry years for water and
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