Not a Margarita . . . but a Wine-A-Rita! All you need is the mix, ice, wine, and a blender to create a fun and delicious frozen wine drink. Enjoy with your 4th of July celebration! $12 each. Wine-A-Ritas with Tassel Ridge wine recommendations: Blueberry Pomegranate with
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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 →We continue to monitor several fermentations and when they finish, we rack the wine into a new, clean tank, leaving the sediment behind. We will clean the old tank out and run chemical analyses on the wine and give it a taste. This will help determine what
Read more →We always manage to break trellis posts during harvest and this week, we’ll try to get them all replaced. This is just hard work. We have to dig the base of the old post out and we slip a new post down in its place. Then we
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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 →The first job right after harvest finished was to get the harvest equipment back to the warehouse. The red wines that are fermenting in open-top fermenters need to be punched down in the morning and again in the evening until fermentation finishes. We want to extract all
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 →One of the components of our Nouveau is Foch. We started carbonic maceration on the Foch last week and pressed it off skins and seeds on Monday. We took some Marquette and started carbonic maceration on Thursday of this week and will combine the two batches next
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Summer is officially here! Time for Red, White, & Blue® Sangria!! Try this new 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
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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.
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