Chicken Enchiladas and Fizzy Red Wine? Yes! These chicken enchiladas have lots of flavors, and you control the spice and heat with your choice of mild, medium, or hot red enchilada sauce. The fruit notes in Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante® Red, a semi-sweet fruity, fizzy, red wine, make
Read more →Iowa Edelweiss wine from Tassel Ridge Winery is a great wine for fall. It is a fruity, semi-sweet white wine that offers orange, pear, and pineapple hints on both the nose and palate. It is great served chilled and simply sipped. And, it enhances spicy Asian stir
Read more →Our new Seated Tastings include your choice of one of five Tasting Flights, freshly baked bread, Frisian Farms Young Gouda, and depending on Flight, Tassel Ridge Dipping Oil or Warm Roasted Salted Cashew Nuts. $15–$25. Seating is limited and is arranged to allow for Social Distancing. The
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Aerating wine is one of the best ways to “open up” or soften a big, full-bodied dry red wine. However, simply opening the bottle an hour before serving doesn’t expose the wine to the amount of air needed to have any real influence on the wine. To
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Ingredients: 1 bottle Tassel Ridge® Cranberry Wine 4 cups cranberry-pomegranate juice 1 cup orange juice 2 Tbsp sugar ½ orange, sliced ½ apple, sliced 1 cup cranberries 1½ cups lemon-lime soda Directions: Combine Tassel Ridge Cranberry Wine, cranberry-pomegranate juice, orange juice, and sugar in large pitcher. Add orange
Read more →On Friday, October 1, Wood Fired Oven Pizza Night returns at Tassel Ridge® Winery by Reservation Only. Enjoy an individual Wood Fired Oven Pizza ($14). Choose an Apple, Bacon, and Cheddar Pizza; a Chicken, Spinach, Artichoke Heart, Black Olive, Shredded Mozzarella, and Roasted Garlic Cream Sauce (no
Read more →Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as we picked the last grapes on Thursday morning. The grape variety was Frontenac and both the quality and quantity was outstanding. On Friday we processed the grapes and started to clean things up. This week, we’ve cleaned the harvest equipment
Read more →After every day of harvest, we have to process grapes. That involves a run through the destemmer-crusher for all grapes. Red grapes are then pumped into either tanks or open-top fermenters. Grapes used to make white and rosé wines go into the press and just the juice
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Chicken and Asparagus and Iowa Candleglow® White…a perfect light late summer meal! Iowa Candleglow White, a dry, fruity wine, pairs very nicely with this light but flavorful chicken recipe.
Read more →The first step in processing each batch of fruit is destemming and crushing the fruit. When we are making a white or rosé, we then juice the grapes in the press and pump the pressed juice straight into one of our stainless steel tanks. If we are
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