Iowa St. Croix Rosé is a dry rosé with strawberry, raspberry, peach, and nectarine notes and a slightly drying finish. Made entirely from St. Croix grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards, Iowa St. Croix Rosé pairs well with Asian stir-fry, Mexican dishes, and other spicy
Read more →We will get the preventative maintenance done on our scales and our presses early this week and then get our outside 4,000 gallon tanks washed. We will stock up our case goods room so that we can continue to make deliveries to retailers during harvest without having
Read more →We are expecting a very good grape harvest this year. With only a week or so before we actually start to harvest, we keep an eye on the weather because we don’t want heavy rain, hail, or high winds. We also need to deter birds from harvesting
Read more →Several tanks have small quantities of wine that we will move to totes for storage during harvest. We will need all of our tank space for harvest. We will reorganize the case goods room to temporarily house several Macro bins that we will be fermenting red wines
Read more →We are watching development of the grapes very carefully with a focus on Brianna, Edelweiss, and Marquette. We do a full pre-harvest test using a rigorous sampling procedure weekly complemented by random sampling and tasting. When we see the three varieties mentioned above getting ready for harvest,
Read more →Put some award-winning Iowa fizz in your Mimosa Put some award-winning Iowa fizz in your Mimosa with Tassel Ridge® Oskyfizzante® Iowa White, winner of the Governor’s Cup in the 2021 Iowa State Fair Commercial Wine Competition.
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! Tassel Ridge Oskyfizzante Iowa
Read more →After about two weeks of regular light rain, we have experienced two weeks of hot, dry weather. Fortunately, we have lots of ground moisture and only the newly planted vines will need additional water if the weather stays hot and dry. Our mature vines have root systems
Read more →Cool Down with Tassel Ridge® American Pink Catawba, and pair it with Buttermilk Chicken American Pink Catawba is a semi-sweet, refreshing, fruity rosé with pineapple and other tropical fruit aromas and green apple and citrus flavors that pair nicely with our Tassel Ridge crowd-pleasing Southern Buttermilk Chicken.
Read more →The first question everyone asks at this time of year is this: How is the grape crop looking? Vines in all of our four vineyards have heavy fruit loads. In fact, I don’t remember a harvest that was looking this good by July 15. Keep in mind
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