Iowa Marquette is a dry red with complex aromas and flavors and spicy notes on the finish. Made entirely from Marquette grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards and fermented in stainless tanks and then aged in French oak for a year and neutral barrels for
Read more →In the cellar, we have two batches of Red, White, & Blue that are being racked (moved from one tank to another, leaving behind solids at the bottom of the tank) and filtered. We are receiving a truck load of bottles which we put in our warehouse.
Read more →Weather permitting, we are installing pencil rods (steel rods about ¼ inch in diameter) in several rows of Marquette that we’ve cut off at the ground. We will train the suckers that come up when the ground warms up in the spring up along the pencil rods
Read more →Several batches of the very popular Red, White, & Blue have finished fermenting. We will rack the wine off yeast lees. This means that the wine will be pumped from one tank to another while leaving behind the sludge (dead yeast cells). We’ll then clean out the
Read more →Our vines are all dormant and are asleep for the winter. Some of our vineyard staff will take some time off and others will move indoors for the next two months. We are looking for a new source for rooted Steuben cuttings. Our former supplier lost their
Read more →Enjoy and share this decadent chocolate treat! Two kinds of Tassel Ridge Finalé Bonbons are available: dark chocolate with Finalé Raspberry cream and milk chocolate with Finalé Blackberry cream. These bonbons are made with Tassel Ridge Finalé dessert wines exclusively for Tassel Ridge Winery by Chocolaterie Stam. A 15-piece package is $20.
Read more →On Monday afternoon, we will host the Winemaker’s Round Table. This will give 20 Iowa winemakers a chance to compare processes and results for making red wines from Petite Pearl, Sabrevois, and Frontenac. This is a good opportunity for all 20 attendees to learn from each other.
Read more →If you are looking for the perfect stocking stuffer, Tassel Ridge Winery can help you take care of that! Red, White, & Blue Wine Jelly is now available! Get them before we run out (or before you know who buys them all!) Ho, Ho, Ho!
Read more →Welcome the New Year with an Iowa-made Oskyfizzante® fizzy wine from Tassel Ridge Winery. Oskyfizzante fizzy wines are great for toasts, aperitifs, for accompanying meals during the holidays, and to celebrate with! Tassel Ridge Winery offers four different fizzy wines. Oskyfizzante® Cranberry is a fizzy wine
Read more →We can’t predict the weather with certainty and we sure didn’t predict that it would stay so mild so late this year. This week will get cold but that means that the vineyard floor will be frozen hard enough that we can get equipment out in the
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