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
Read more →American Pink Catawba is a semi-sweet, refreshing, fruity rosé with pineapple and other tropical fruits on the nose and hints of green apple and citrus on the palate. Made entirely from Catawba grapes, American Pink Catawba pairs well with barbecue or picnic foods like cold meats or
Read more →We will get our 2019 Iowa St. Pepin and 2019 Iowa Louise Swenson filtered this week so we are ready to bottle both wines next week. We are monitoring the fermentation of another batch of Cranberry Wine. Fermenting cranberry is a slow process. We are also getting
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The shrimp in this recipe don’t have strong flavors but the other ingredients are very flavorful. The tropical fruit notes, with pineapple especially prominent, and hint of citrus in Tassel Ridge Iowa Edelweiss will pair nicely with the lime in the Ginger-Lime Sauce.
Read more →On Wednesday, we will bottle another batch of our very popular Blackberry Wine. If you like a really smooth sweet wine, you should try Tassel Ridge Blackberry Wine. We are fermenting batches of Cranberry Wine and American Steuben so we’ll be monitoring those fermentations. We will be
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