We will be pruning St. Pepin, LaCrosse, Sabrevois, and Brianna in Newport Lane, Meadowcreek, and Maple Woods vineyards this week. We will start spraying herbicide this week if the ground temperature reaches 50°F and will continue spraying the lime-sulfur mixture on trunks in Tassel Ridge, Newport Lane,
Read more →We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue this week and will monitor a fermentation that is midway through the process. We will also start cold stabilization of another wine. Last week, we received our new Dissolved Oxygen (DO) meter. We’ve learned that many of
Read more →We started the week pruning St. Croix and Frontenac at Newport Lane Vineyard, and we’ll continue by mechanically pruning Maple Woods and Newport Lane. The vineyard crew will spray sulfur on vines that have not yet been treated. While we had some rain days in March, we
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This recipe for tacos offers lots of flavor and that will be complemented by a wine with some body but not a wine that will overwhelm the tacos themselves. Tassel Ridge Iowa St. Croix Rosé is a dry rosé with strawberry, raspberry, peach, and nectarine notes and
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Pair Tassel Ridge Hearty Vegetable Soup with Tassel Ridge 2019 Iowa Nouveau or Iowa Pizzeria & Pasta Too!. The fruit in 2019 Iowa Nouveau pairs well with the tomato in the soup.
Read more →The barrels we’d used for 2019 Iowa Marquette are now empty and need to be cleaned. We are working on blending the 2019 Iowa Marquette and In the Dark to get them ready for bottling. We are still working on our St. Pepin blend. We’ve started wiping
Read more →Last week, we took advantage of the weather and got all of Maple Woods Vineyard and part of the Marquette at Meadowcreek Vineyard sprayed with lime-sulfur. Weather permitting, we’ll spray other vineyards this week. We will prune Frontenac and St. Croix at Newport this week. We will
Read more →Our vineyard crew is moving right along with pruning. Having finished the Marquette, they’ll work on St. Croix and Frontenac at Meadowcreek and Newport Lane vineyards this week. We will also start applying the annual lime-sulfur spray to our grapevines this week. This is the same organic
Read more →We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue® this week and get this year’s batch of Blackberry Wine ready for bottling next week. We will be moving the 2019 Iowa Marquette that was in barrels to a tank and will blend what was in the
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