Looking for a new chicken recipe? Try Rosemary Lemon Chicken Breasts! These Rosemary Lemon Chicken Breasts have lots of flavors, including rosemary, lemon, and Dijon mustard, and the fruit notes in Tassel Ridge Iowa St. Croix Rosé are a nice complement to these flavors.
Read more →We will very carefully scrub the inside of our new press by hand with scrub brushes. The scale will be moved to the crush pad and we will get a preventative maintenance visit for our Titrator. Our two new 4,000 gallon tanks will be carefully cleaned. We
Read more →We are taking samples of grapes every day or so now and are running chemistries in our lab as well as tasting the fruit. We are also picking samples that we will take to Iowa State University to test for Yeast Assimilable Nitrogen. The results will tell
Read more →Tassel Ridge Winery is pleased to support the Des Moines Symphony. Watch for the release of Tassel Ridge 2019 Iowa Marquette on October 15. 2019 Iowa Marquette 2019 Iowa Marquette is a dry red that teases the palate with a fresh, lightly acidic entry transitioning
Read more →This is the time of year when we collect petiole samples (stems of leaves) and send them to a lab for analysis. We collect the stems of certain leaves because the stems are the pipelines of a grape vine. All of the nutrients in the vine travel
Read more →We’ll be doing some cleaning and equipment maintenance before we bring our hopper, fruit elevator, destemmer-crusher, and must pump from the warehouse to the crush pad. Then, we’ll get that equipment cleaned and ready. We have a bit of wine in the tanks that we’ll be moving
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It’s strawberry, peach, and slushie season…try a Tassel Ridge Strawberry and Peach Layered Wine Slushie! A semi-sweet, aromatic white wine is a good choice when making wine slushies, and Tassel Ridge Prelude is the perfect match for the strawberry and peach flavors in this slushie.
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.
Read more →We will bottle our last wines for this season: 2019 Iowa St. Pepin and 2019 Iowa Louise Swenson. Both of these wines are new for Tassel Ridge and we’ll be excited to release them in the Fall. Batches of American Steuben and Cranberry Wine have finished fermenting.
Read more →Veraison is an annual milestone in grape ripening. It is when the red/purple grapes change from a hard, milky-green to purple. That process started late last week in our Marquette and Frontenac. St. Croix, Sabrevois, and Foch will follow soon. Veraison also happens with white grapes. They
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