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We have had a positive response to our one-on-one wine making classes.  Saturday mornings have seen us with couples coming in prior to our store opening so that a class on making wine can be finished before the store opens.  It is a great way to start off a Saturday morning and many couples are busy making wine by the end of the day.

We like to have time to show the contents of our winemaking equipment kits and explain how each piece of equipment is used.  Most of the equipment is pretty straight-forward but there are always a few how-tos that we like to go through.

Time is then spent talking about the various WinExpert and Cellar Craft wine ingredient kits that we have for sale.  We encourage our new winemakers to start off with one of these superb kits so that their first wine making experience is a good wone.  The use of one of our Cellar Craft or WinExpert wine kits virtually guarantees that our new wine making hobbyists will get a super wine to enjoy with their first attempt.

After selecting one of the Cellar Craft or WinExpert kits to purchase, we then open the box and go through the instructions so that the new winemakers can ask questions and have a thorough understanding of the process of making wine.

If their preference is to make wine from fruit or their own grapes, BlueStem Winery stocks a complete line of winemaking ingredients, wine making equipment and winemaking supplies to meet their needs.

Have a group of people who want to learn to make wine?  We can get together and have an evening session and walk through the entire process at your convenience.  Call us at (319) 346-1046 or e-mail the winery at bluestemwine@mchsi.com or at info@bluestemwine.com.

An article about wine making or beer brewing is published approximately 15 times per month on the BlueStem Winery blog.  We also publish about 3 or 4 articles per month on our perspectives on life or on events which have shaped our lives.

These articles are intended to be informative, insightful or just interesting.

Red Crescent (our second BlueStem Winery label wine) is on the shelves as of late March 2008. Red Crescent is a wonderfully sweet dessert wine and will be a nice accompaniment to our first wine (a Riesling dessert wine) Once in a Blue Moon.

Our third wine is bottled and the label has been designed, approved and ordered.  This wine will be called Dark Side (yes, all of our wines so far have a moon theme in their names) and is called this because the wine is so dark it appears to be black.  Dark Side is a Montepulciano wine made from concentrated juice from the Chilean Andes.

Following along in rapid succession will be our 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th wines which should all be available sometime in the summer to early autumn of 2007.  These wines will include a Riesling, a Gewurztraminer, a Gruner Veltliner (an Austrian white) and a Gewurztraminer dessert wine.

We are about ready to start our 8th wine which will be a Zweigelt (an Austrian red).  Our 9th wine will be started in April 2008 and will be a Late Harvest Riesling.

We are pumped!  It has taken a long time to get to the point where we were able to put several kinds of our own wines out for sale but that time is rapidly approaching.

Stop by for a sample.  Check below for our winery hours.  If we are open, we are tasting!