2013 Iowa La Crescent is an outstanding sipping wine on beautiful spring days. It is a refreshing, semi-sweet white wine with tropical fruit, peach, pear, and grapefruit on the nose and tropical fruit, peach, and citrus on the palate. This wine is made entirely from grapes grown
Read more →We received more Concord juice on Monday and as soon as the juice warms up, we will start the fermentation. The cellar team bottled another batch of Red, White, & Blue® last week. We prepared Oskyfizzante® for carbonation and we started that process last Friday, April 3.
Read more →We have finished long pruning at Meadowcreek and Newport Lane Vineyards and will tackle our biggest vineyard at Tassel Ridge this week. We expect to have visitors and hope to have both a still photographer and a video photographer taking pictures of the mechanical pruner in action.
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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
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Ingredients: 1 bottle Tassel Ridge Cranberry Wine 12 oz cranberry-pomegranate juice ¾ cup orange juice ½ cup pineapple juice ½ orange, sliced ½ apple, sliced ½ lemon, sliced 4 cups lemon-lime soda Directions: Combine Tassel Ridge Cranberry Wine, cranberry-pomegranate juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, and orange, apple,
Read more →The cellar team bottled Oskyfizzante® Pink last Tuesday, March 24. This wine is a nice shade of pink with a finish that is very refreshing. Because these bottles have to warm up before they are labeled, we spent a couple of days late in the week getting
Read more →Sweet Roxie Red® is a refreshing, sweet fruity red wine that displays cherry and green apple notes on the nose with cherry and plum on the palate. It is made from a blend of Marquette and Muscat grapes and is both a great sipping wine and a
Read more →We are getting our Newport Lane Vineyard ready for mechanical pruning and then expect to make fast work of this vineyard on Tuesday with our V-Mech system. We will be spraying Sulforix, also known as Lime-Sulfur, a little later in the week. Sulforix is a fungicide that
Read more →Tassel Ridge Winery won Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals at the recent Finger Lakes International Wine Competition in Upstate New York. The winning wines were: 2013 Iowa La Crescent―Gold 2014 Iowa Edelweiss–Silver 2013 Iowa Marquette Rosé―Bronze The Finger Lakes International Wine Competition is an annual event. It
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