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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Iowa Frontenac Rosé is a light, fruity, semi-sweet wine with plum, cherry, raspberry and white pepper on the nose and cherry and raspberry on the palate. This wine is made entirely from Frontenac grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa vineyards. It complements mild-flavored chicken, pork, and
Read more →Governor Branstad declared March 2015 Iowa Wine Month. Celebrate Iowa Wine Month by coming out to Tassel Ridge Winery for a tour, to taste our wine, visit our gift shop, or just to sit and enjoy a glass of wine for an hour or so with a friend
Read more →The Cellar Team attended to the final details for the next batch of Cranberry Wine and then got it filtered and bottled. This batch has a big cranberry nose and while it is very smooth on the palate, it has the cranberry punch on the finish that
Read more →Now that we understand how efficiently we will be able to prune with our V-Mech pruning system and also because of the recent high temperatures, we have shifted our vineyard crew to work on getting Meadowcreek and Newport Lane Vineyards ready for the V-Mech. That translates to
Read more →You are receiving this special E-newsletter because you listed Red/Dry wine as one of your interests. Join us for a very special dinner evening designed specifically to address the interests of dry red wine lovers. It begins with a visit to the Tassel Ridge Winery cellar where
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