Try a new Pork recipe made with Red, White, & Blue for the upcoming Holiday! This Cranberry-Grape Reduction adds new flavors to Pork Loin and well-chilled Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue with its strong grape flavors. It is a perfect pairing for Tassel Ridge Pork Loin
Read more →Most of our Marquette and all of the La Crescent are trellised on a VSP or vertical shoot positioning trellis system. The objective of this system is to assure that the fruit and most of the leaves are exposed to morning sun on the east side of
Read more →Are you buying a Father’s Day gift for someone who likes dry red wines? Tassel Ridge Winery offers ten different dry red wines ranging in price from $11 to $30. The ultimate Father’s Day Gift is a selection of two 2008 Iowa St. Croix, two 2020 Iowa
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Warm evenings, Grilled Salmon Salad, & Star Spangled White® Warm evenings are finally here! Start your list of outdoor dining recipes with Tassel Ridge Grilled Salmon Salad. The oranges, apples, and raspberry vinaigrette in this salad make Tassel Ridge Star Spangled White with pineapple, melon, and pear
Read more →This week, we bottled 2021 Iowa Petite Pearl and the 2020 Iowa Marquette. The first step was to run Nitrogen through both wines in order to remove any dissolved Oxygen in the wine before bottling. Then, on Wednesday, we bottled both the 2021 Iowa Petite Pearl and
Read more →Our grapevines are in bloom. Compared to daffodils or tulips, their blooms are very unimpressive as the attached photo shows. First of all, each flower is very small and second, it is only at the pollinating stage for 2–3 days. You have to look quick. Initially, each
Read more →On Wednesday, we canned 7,000 twelve-ounce cans of Red, White, & Blue for the first time. Whenever we do something for the first time, we encounter all sorts of unknowns. This time was no exception because after we got the run completed, we learned that the UPC
Read more →This week was devoted to getting ready to plant new vines right after the Memorial Day weekend. We are replanting vines that have died and replacing some varieties that we don’t need with those for which we have greater demand. So, we have removed some La Crescent
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Looking for a different salsa? Try Tassel Ridge Tropical Fruit Salsa. Try this Tropical Fruit Salsa with your favorite chips or as the finishing touch for chicken or fish tacos, and pair it with Tassel Star Spangled White®. A sweet white wine with pineapple, melon, and pear on
Read more →Although our vines are nearly three weeks behind last year, the warm weather has told them that spring is here and it’s time to break buds and grow leaves. The change in just ten days is dramatic. We are bringing pruning to a close, especially in the
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