Summer is officially here! Time for Red, White, & Blue® Sangria!! Try this sangria recipe built around our very popular Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue wine. Well-chilled Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue Sangria is perfect for hot summer weather and entertaining (we’ve even been told that
Read more →Add Beef-Barley Soup and Iowa Harvest Red to your game watching (or any) menu! Watching games and hot soup is a great paring on cold winter days, and Tassel Ridge Iowa Harvest Red with plum and black cherry aromas and notes on the palate along with nice
Read more →Warm up with a Top Sirloin Roast paired with an Iowa dry red wine. The big flavors from the spices and the fat from the sirloin in this Fennel-Coriander Top Sirloin Roast need a big, dry red wine, and Tassel Ridge 2020 Iowa Reserve Marquette is a
Read more →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
Read more →Chicken and Asparagus and Iowa Candleglow® White…a perfect late summer meal! Iowa Candleglow White, a dry, fruity wine, pairs very nicely with this light but flavorful chicken recipe.
Read more →Tassel Ridge Iowa Edelweiss, Iowa sweet corn, and grilled chicken…Perfect together! Tassel Ridge Iowa Edelweiss brings out the fruity flavors in sweet corn, and both pair well with these Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Breasts.
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
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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