Summer Heat and Celebrations are here.…Time for an icy cold drink! Cool down with a Tassel Ridge® Frosty Flag. A slushy-style drink, made with Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue®. It’s bursting with traditional grape flavors and icy cold goodness! Looking for a fizzy drink with Red,
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Red, White, & Blue® is a traditional sweet, Concord-based blend with strong grape flavors reminiscent of grape jelly. An outstanding sipping wine, Red, White, & Blue is best served chilled. Tassel Ridge wines are sold at about 400 retailers in Iowa. Red, White, & Blue is available
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Peanut Butter, Chocolate, and Red, White, & Blue® Red, White, & Blue®, with its strong grape flavors, is a perfect pairing for Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pie…it’s an adult version of peanut butter and jelly!
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It’s Red, White, & Blue Brisket Season! Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue Brisket takes brisket up a notch. Reduce a mixture of Tassel Ridge Red, White, & Blue wine and spices, and you have the perfect, fully flavored braising liquid for brisket. Pair it with Red, White, & Blue,
Read more →This week, the vineyard crew pruned all 61 rows of Steuben vines and then shifted to tucking the Marquette. All of these vines are at Meadowcreek Vineyard. So, what is tucking? Most of our Marquette is trellised on a Vertical Shoot Positioning (VSP) trellis. That means that
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Tropical Fruit Salsa, chips, and chilled Tassel Ridge Star Spangled White®…perfect for hot weather! Tassel Ridge Star Spangled White, a sweet white wine with pineapple, melon, and pear on the nose and candied pineapple and pear on the palate, is a perfect pairing for the tropical fruit
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Star Spangled White® is a sweet white wine with pineapple, melon, and pear on the nose and candied pineapple and pear on the palate. This wine is made entirely from Edelweiss grapes. Pair with apple and pear desserts or blue vein cheese. Enjoy Star Spangled White alone
Read more →The vineyard team took advantage of the good weather this week to plant 350 LaCrosse vines at the north end of the Maple Woods Vineyard. These vines are replacing La Crescent vines that were not doing well. The soil has a dry crust that is only about
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Rockets Glare Rosé® is a sweet rosé with cherry on the nose, bright red cherries on the palate, and green apple on the finish. Made from Sabrevois and La Crosse grapes grown in our Mahaska County, Iowa, vineyards, Rockets Glare Rosé pairs well with your favorite spicy
Read more →We are now pruning ten rows of Edelweiss in Block A. These are 500 foot rows with 62 very unruly vines in each row. In addition to pruning, we are also removing suckers and tying the vines up to the trellis. Edelweiss is very vigorous and it
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