Featured Event
Saturday, April 8
Spring Wine Dinner
6:00 p.m.—Wine Tasting
6:30 p.m.—Dinner Seating
Reservations Required by 3:00 p.m. on April 6
Celebrate spring at Tassel Ridge Winery! Enjoy a three-course dinner beginning with a Mixed Greens Salad with Apple, Almonds, Blue Cheese, and Balsamic Vinaigrette paired with Tassel Ridge (read more)
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Bistro Lunch
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.—Monday–Friday (and select Saturdays)
12:00–3:00 p.m.—Select Sundays
New Spring Menu! Tassel Ridge Winery is now serving lunch Monday through Friday (11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) and on Saturdays (11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) and Sundays (12:00 to 3:00 p.m.) when we don’t have other events during the day like All-Day Pizza or Small Plates. Take a midday break (read more)
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Thursday, April 6
Thursday Night Wine & Small Plates at Tassel Ridge
5:30–8:00 p.m.—Small Plates served until 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy a glass of Tassel Ridge wine with your favorites from the evening’s Small Plates Menu: Buffalo Chicken Sliders with Monterey Jack Cheese, Lettuce, and Buffalo Wing Sauce ($9); (read more)
Friday, April 7
Special à la Carte Wine & Wood Fired Oven Pizza Night at Tassel Ridge
5:30–8:00 p.m.—Pizza served until 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy an 11-inch individual Wood Fired Oven Pizza for $12. Choose a Margherita Pizza, made with Tomato Sauce, Fresh Mozzarella, and Fresh Basil; a Pepperoni, Black Olive, and (read more)
Saturday, April 8
Wine, Lunch, & Vine Wreath Making Workshop
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Reservations Required by 3:00 p.m. on April 6
We’ll show you how to make your own grapevine wreath at our 8th annual Vine Wreath Making Workshop! Then, after you finish your wreath and have had a chance to admire it, enjoy a light lunch (read more)
Saturday, April 8
Spring Wine Dinner
6:00 p.m.—Wine Tasting
6:30 p.m.—Dinner Seating
Reservations Required by 3:00 p.m. on April 6
Celebrate spring at Tassel Ridge Winery! Enjoy a three-course dinner beginning with a Mixed Greens Salad with Apple, Almonds, Blue Cheese, and Balsamic Vinaigrette paired with (read more)
Sunday, April 9
Wine & Sunday Brunch Small Plates at Tassel Ridge
12:00–3:00 p.m.—Small Plates served until 2:30 p.m.
Enjoy a glass of Tassel Ridge wine with your favorites from today’s Sunday Brunch Small Plates Menu: Ham and Cheese Omelet with Bacon ($9); Waffles with Strawberries and Cream (read more)
Thursday, April 13 (National Peach Cobbler Day)
Thursday Night Wine & Small Plates at Tassel Ridge
5:30–8:00 p.m.—Small Plates served until 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy a glass of Tassel Ridge wine with your favorites from the evening’s Small Plates Menu: Chef Frank’s Salsa and Chips ($5); Pork Carnitas Salad with Romaine, Black Beans, (read more)
Friday, April 14
Wine & Pasta Night
6:00 p.m.—Wine Tasting
6:30 p.m.—Dinner Seating
Reservations Required by 3:00 p.m. on April 13
Dinner begins with an Italian Salad with Romaine, Tomato, Black Olives, Banana Peppers, and Italian Dressing paired with Tassel Ridge 2013 American La Crescent. Chef Frank will (read more)
Saturday, April 15
Wine & Wood Fired Oven Pizza Day
11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.—Pizza served until 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy an 11-inch individual Wood Fired Oven Pizza for $12. Choose a Margherita Pizza, made with Tomato Sauce, Fresh Mozzarella, and Fresh Basil; a Pepperoni, Black Olive, and (read more)
Thursday, April 20 (National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day)
Thursday Night Wine & Small Plates at Tassel Ridge
5:30–8:00 p.m.—Small Plates served until 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy a glass of Tassel Ridge wine with your favorites from the evening’s Small Plates Menu: Chicken Caesar Salad ($9); Corned Beef Reuben with Swiss Cheese, Sauerkraut, & Thousand (read more)
Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22
Wine Dinner & Murder Mystery
6:00 p.m.—Wine Tasting
6:30 p.m.—Dinner Seating
Reservations Required by 3:00 p.m. on April 19
Tassel Ridge Winery is the place to be for wine, dinner, and mystery, when Jest Murder Mystery Co. presents “Murder at the Abbey.” During the show, enjoy a three-course dinner (read more)
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Recipe of the Week
Tassel Ridge® Caramel Nut Tart
Tart Shell Ingredients:
1⅔ cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 sticks butter, cubed and cold (read more)
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Gift Shop Idea of the Week
One Way to Use Your Leftover Corks
This Greenophile Bamboo Corkboard Trivet Kit is a great way to use your leftover corks. $13.
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Featured Wine
Iowa St. Croix Rosé Pairs Well with Asian Stir-Fry and Mexican Dishes
2013 Iowa St. Croix Rosé is a dry red rosé with strawberry, raspberry, peach, and nectarine notes and a slightly drying finish. Made entirely from St. Croix grapes grown in our Mahaska (read more)
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If You Like Tassel Ridge Wines, We Invite You to Join the Tassel Ridge Harvest Club!
In a nutshell, Harvest Club members receive a shipment of two bottles of wine four times a year. Each Harvest Club shipment has a pre-determined selection of two dry wines, two sweet wines, or one of each.
Harvest Club Selections
Members will be notified by mail or e-mail about upcoming Harvest Club selections and can choose to pick up their wine on Club Member Release Weekends or have the wine shipped (read more)
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Cellar Team Bottled Iowa Prairie Snow® and Red, White, & Blue® and Managed Fermentations of Two Different Wines
Last week the cellar team bottled Iowa Prairie Snow and this week they will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue. They are also managing fermentations of more juice for future batches of (read more)
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Long Pruning Continues While Weed Removal and Sulfur Spraying Continue as Weather Permits
The vineyard crew continues to long-prune, remove weeds with the weed badger, and spray herbicide under the vines, all while working around the weather. They will also start spraying sulfur on the trunks (read more)
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Wine Ambassadors
Tassel Ridge Winery is looking for Wine Ambassadors to conduct two to three tastings per (read more)
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Our Hours:
In April 2017, we are open seven days a week. Come to the Winery for Winery tours, tasting, and wine and gift shop sales.
Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Sunday 12:00–6:00 p.m.
Bring your out-of-town friends and relatives to Tassel Ridge Winery and help them experience wines made in Iowa. We are happy to provide Winery tours upon request.
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 Our Location:
Tassel Ridge Winery is easy to find. It is just south of State Highway 163 on 220th Street in rural Leighton. From Ottumwa and Oskaloosa, drive northwest on 163 to 220th Street and turn left toward Leighton. From Des Moines and Pella, drive southeast on Highway 163 and turn right at 220th Street. Drive west on 220th about 0.7 miles from the Highway and right into the Tassel Ridge Winery parking lot. View maps
—Bob Wersen, President
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Tassel Ridge Wines...Simply Extraordinary®
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