The following wines won medals in the Iowa Wine Growers Commercial Wine Competition that was judged on Wednesday, March 24. Award—Wine Silver—2012 Iowa Finale Tawny Silver—2018 Iowa Harvest Red Silver—2017 Iowa Brianna Silver—Iowa Candleglow® White Bronze—Iowa Candleglow Red Bronze—Iowa Lace Bronze—2013 Iowa St. Croix Rosé Bronze—Oskyfizzante® Iowa
Read more →Pair Spring with Rosé and Lighter Dinners! This Chinese Chicken Salad is a light and flavorful dinner on a warm spring evening, and Tassel Ridge Iowa St. Croix Rosé is the perfect pairing for this light dinner and its Asian inspired flavors.
Read more →We will bottle the second batch of Iowa Sweet & Snazzy™ on Thursday and on Tuesday, we will measure the dissolved Oxygen (DO) in this wine. If the DO is above about 5 parts per million or 5mg per liter, we will bubble Nitrogen through the wine.
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Try a new Glaze for your Easter Ham! Tassel Ridge Star Spangled White® imparts tropical flavors in foods, and this very simple glaze made with Star Spangled White will take your ham to the next level. Ham calls for a light bodied wine, and both Tassel Ridge Cranberry Wine and Tassel
Read more →By: Bob Wersen As the weather warms up and you start thinking about dining outside on your patio or balcony, ideas about the kinds of meals to eat begin to change. Think about more Asian stir-fries; Mexican foods, like tacos and enchiladas; a spicy couscous with harissa
Read more →We bottle our first batch of Iowa Sweet & Snazzy™ this week and a second batch next week. We will release this wine on July 5. It is a sweet fruity wine that is great for picnics and outdoor grilling. We will carefully measure the dissolved oxygen
Read more →With the help of nice weather, we are moving right along in pruning the Marquette. By mid-week, we will move into the St. Croix and Frontenac at Meadowcreek Vineyard. Adam hopes to be able to mechanically prune Newport Lane Vineyard by Friday. So, how do we decide
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Ready for a Patio Picnic? Try Mediterranean Beef Pitas! Ready for a Patio Picnic (or an Indoor Picnic if it’s still not quite warm enough to dine on your patio)? These Mediterranean Beef Pitas paired with semi-sweet Tassel Ridge American Pink Catawba are perfect for any picnic.
Read more →We have fermentations of Catawba and Concord going now. We’ll be adding the lag nutrients to keep the yeasts happy. We will also be bottling another batch of Red, White, & Blue® and getting yet another batch filtered after cold stabilization and ready for bottling next week.
Read more →We made good progress with our Marquette vines but have a lot more to prune this week. We will take advantage of the good weather to make a first pass with the mechanical pruner and then return to manually pull out the longer canes and prune all
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