Spice up Curried Chicken Salad and pair it with a semi-sweet rosé! The sweetness from the raisins and honey in this Curried Chicken Salad will pair well with a semi-sweet wine. The sweet cherry, citrus, and candied fruit notes in Tassel Ridge Sweet Roxie Red® make it
Read more →Sweet Roxie Red® is a refreshing, sweet, fruity red wine with cherry and citrus on the nose and sweet cherry and candied fruits on the palate. Made from a blend of Marquette grapes grown in our Iowa, vineyards and Muscat grapes, Sweet Roxie Red is a great sipping wine
Read more →We have several batches of Red, White, & Blue® in the works right now. Some are still fermenting and need additions of yeast nutrients while we also monitor fermentation temperatures. On other batches, we are ready to make the blend, and then cold stabilize the wine. On
Read more →We expect to finish pruning St. Pepin and Brianna at Newport Lane early in the week. While that hand work is being done, we’ll start mechanically pruning at Tassel Ridge on Tuesday. Then, we will hand prune Brianna at Tassel Ridge. We are frequently asked why we
Read more →We are bottling Red, White, & Blue this week. We are also starting to cold stabilize another batch of Red, White, & Blue. We will rack and transfer our Iowa In the Dark and also Iowa St. Pepin. With each wine, we’ll measure the dissolved oxygen and
Read more →We will finish hand pruning vines at Newport Lane this week while we start mechanical pruning at Tassel Ridge. We will also get our sprayers ready. The first thing we spray each spring is a fungicide which is largely sulfur. We saturate the trunk of each vine
Read more →The following wines won medals in the Iowa Wine Growers Commercial Wine Competition that was judged on Wednesday, March 24. Award Wine Award—Wine Silver—2012 Iowa Finale Tawny Silver—2018 Iowa Harvest Red Silver—2017 Iowa Brianna Silver—Iowa Candleglow® White Bronze—Iowa Candleglow Red Bronze—Iowa Lace Bronze—2013 Iowa St. Croix Rosé
Read more →Pair Spring with Rosé and Lighter Dinners! This Chinese Chicken Salad is a light and flavorful dinner on a warm spring evening, and Tassel Ridge Iowa St. Croix Rosé is the perfect pairing for this light dinner and its Asian inspired flavors.
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Iowa St. Croix Rosé is a dry rosé with strawberry, raspberry, peach, and nectarine notes and a slightly drying finish. Made entirely from St. Croix grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards, Iowa St. Croix Rosé pairs well with Asian stir-fry, Mexican dishes, and other spicy
Read more →We will bottle the second batch of Iowa Sweet & Snazzy™ on Thursday and on Tuesday, we will measure the dissolved Oxygen (DO) in this wine. If the DO is above about 5 parts per million or 5mg per liter, we will bubble Nitrogen through the wine.
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