With our harvest finished, the vineyard crew moves toward vineyard maintenance activities on a full time basis now to take advantage of good weather. We’ll receive a semi-load of trellis posts and this week will start replacing broken posts at Maple Woods Vineyard. We will be thoroughly power
Read more →Oskyfizzante® Iowa White is a fruity, semi-sweet, fizzy wine with grapefruit, kiwi, and stone fruit on the nose and kiwi, peach, and citrus on the palate. Made from grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa vineyards, Oskyfizzante Iowa White is great for celebrations! Serve well chilled. Oskyfizzante
Read more →Tassel Ridge Winery is participating in Oskaloosa Restaurant Week, September 14–23. Oskaloosa Main Street and the Oskaloosa Area Chamber and Development Group are sponsoring Oskaloosa Restaurant Week to celebrate local food options. Tassel Ridge Winery is offering a variety of wine and food choices. The Wine and
Read more →If you’re interested in wine, like to talk about wine, and like to meet people, become a Tassel Ridge Winery Wine Ambassador—host wine tastings at Tassel Ridge retailers located near your home. It can be very gratifying to introduce someone to a new wine, have that person
Read more →The cellar team crushed the Sabrevois on Friday and left it to cold settle over the weekend. This allows solids to settle. We racked the Sabrevois off the sediment and started fermentation today. We processed the Steuben on Monday and will allow it two days to cold settle
Read more →Iowa Candleglow® White is a dry, fruity white with pineapple, pear, melon, and apricot notes on the nose and palate and a finish that hints of green apple. This dry white is made from La Crescent, Brianna, and Edelweiss grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards.
Read more →The first step in making wine is getting it fermented. We have several fermentations going all at once right now and are monitoring them regularly. With red wines, we want to keep the skins in contact with the juice as much as possible so this weekend, we
Read more →Tassel Ridge Winery is participating in Oskaloosa Restaurant Week, September 14–23. Oskaloosa Main Street and the Oskaloosa Area Chamber and Development Group are sponsoring Oskaloosa Restaurant Week to celebrate local food options. From September, 18–23, Tassel Ridge Winery will offer a variety of wine and food choices.
Read more →Iowa Edelweiss is a semi-sweet white wine with the scent of ripe pineapple followed by hints of mandarin orange, pear, and pineapple on the palate. Made entirely from Edelweiss grapes grown in Mahaska County, Iowa, this wine pairs well with spicy Asian food, meats seasoned with Caribbean
Read more →We have six batches of juice fermenting in the cellar right now. They need regular attention to make sure that they are not fermenting too fast and that the temperature is being maintained. Unfortunately, on Saturday night, a local electrical substation took a hit and we were without
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