The 30°F frost on Saturday, October 5 followed by another frost on Sunday, October 13 appear to have convinced our vines to start shutting down for the season. While there are still some green leaves to be seen, the overall impression is that the vineyards are turning
Read more →Friday, Saturday, & Sunday—October 18, 19, & 20 Oskyfizzante® Cranberry Release 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Friday 10:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m. Saturday 12:00–6:00 p.m. Sunday Come and try the new Oskyfizzante® Cranberry! It is a seasonal fizzy wine that is made entirely from Cranberry juice. It packs a tart Cranberry
Read more →We are bottling a batch of American Pink Catawba from last season. We are also getting a batch of Oskyfizzante® Cranberry carbonated and ready for bottling. And, we will be cold stabilizing Sweet Roxie Red®. One of the big events of each fall is the final steps
Read more →Oskyfizzante® Cranberry is a fizzy wine that packs a tart cranberry punch with a smooth and sweet finish. Serve it as an aperitif. Pair it with traditional holiday foods or enjoy it as dessert. Oskyfizzante® Cranberry is great for holiday celebrations and toasts! Serve chilled. Tassel Ridge
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Read more →Frequent rain last week made spraying and mowing impossible. The vineyards were really soggy. We did get more Mulberry trees removed but even that task was possible on only a couple of days. Last weekend, somebody asked me why we have so many Mulberry trees and why
Read more →We will handle the final step in fermentation of our Marquette and Nouveau by racking both wines off the yeast lees. We will begin fining the Nouveau and we will run chemistries on all of our wines and add SO2 where SO2 levels are too low. SO2
Read more →Our Blackberry Wine is brimming with mellow berry flavors reminiscent of old fashion blackberry jam. Pair Blackberry Wine with cheesecake or sweet, fruity desserts. Consider serving it as dessert or sipping it whenever you are in the mood for something luscious and fruity. Serve chilled or at
Read more →This week, we will bottle our first wine after harvest. It is our very popular Blackberry Wine. We are also racking newly fermented wine into new tanks. We pump the wine out of the top of the tank down to the point where instead of wine, we
Read more →Prelude is a semi-sweet white wine offering citrus, pear, nectarine, banana, and tropical fruit notes. Prelude is made from St. Pepin grapes grown in Mahaska County, Iowa, and Muscat grapes. Serve it as an aperitif, pair it with a salad, or sip it on a warm afternoon.
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