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Best Red Vinifera in Georgia
2018 Georgia Trustees Wine Challenge
Click here to see Martha's Second Bud book events!
LATE NEWS: Tiger Mountain named "Best Winery in Rabun County, 2020"
in The Clayton Tribune annual "Best Of-" contest in which the public votes!
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Approximately 100 enjoyed Chocolate and Wine Bash in the Barrel Room! (Brooke Ballagh pours wine at the party!)
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UPCOMING EVENTS
 February 20-23: Friday through Sunday - featuring the new 2019 White Tiger. All case sales, 30% off --- cases can be mixed! We ship!!
Saturday, February 29: Release party, 2019 estate Viognier, 1 to 4 p.m. featuring winemaker Lisa Ezzard. Live music and hors d'oeuvres. $18 admission includes tasting of all wines. Reservations, please, for groups of six or more.
Saturday, March 7: First Saturday jazz with Monica Spears and Derek Worth. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. No admission cost; tasting fees only. Saturday hours 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, March 14: St. Pat's party with Irish fiddling by Marie Dunkle and Irish cheeses. Admission, $15.
SAVE THE DATES: March 20-29, annual Wine Highway week. Purchase a $50 passport and visit 22 wineries in North Georgia; taste four wines at each. Tim McCabe on guitar March 21 and casual fare at the Red Barn both Saturdays (the 21st and the 28th)
noon to 2 p.m. Reservations requested. 706-782-4777.
***Current tasting room hours: Friday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Other days for tours and tastings by appointment
NEW WINES AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY: TMV 2019 VOGNIER, PETIT MANSENG, WHITE TIGER, TANNAT, AND RABUN RED. MALBEC BY EARLY MARCH.
Save these dates: March 14- annual St. Patrick's party at the Tasting Room. March 20-29-Winter Wine Highway. Tim McCabe on guitar March 21 and casual fare at the Red Barn, Saturday, March 21 and Saturday March 28.
Attention wine club members: May 16 is the date for our annual "Awakening the Vines" celebration! If you are not a wine club member, see Tigerwine Tasters page and learn how to join and be included in this exclusive, incredible and unique party!
GOOD NEWS for Dahlonega wine lovers: TASTE Wine & Gourmet Food on South Grove Street has Tiger Mountain Malbec and White Tiger (The TMV Tasting Room is sold out of both!) See www.tastedahlonega.com.
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MORE VISITOR KUDOS FOR TMV! I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised with the quality and taste of the wines.... I found the Tasting Room to be on a par with many we have visited in Sonoma. My two favorites were the Viognier and the Cabernet Franc. I came home with a few bottles and a T-shirt. I can't wait to return and bring my husband. We're members of multiple wineries, mostly in Healdsburg, California and have a cellar full of nice bottles that we consume often. I'm tickled to find something only two hours from home at Tiger Mountain. - Denise Jordan Lane, October 19, 2017
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The 2018 ROSÉ is semi-dry with hints of plum and raspberry. A great wine for spring entertaining. |
 TMV's unique blend of the Portuguese Touriga Nacional and Tannat (TNT) is a great wine for winter holidays!
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 TMV Petit Manseng vintages keep piling up gold medals! The latest is gold, best of class in the 2018 Los Angeles International. It was named "Best Wine in Georgia" in the 2017 Georgia Trustees Wine Challenge. Tiger Mountain's John Ezzard pioneered Petit Manseng in Georgia in 2002. TMV vintages have won five gold medals in the last four years -- two in Los Angeles and one each in San Francisco and The Jefferson Cup Invitational. The 2018 Petit Manseng is sold out, but the 2019 will be released the first week of March along with the 2019 Viognier.
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Tiger Mountain Happenings
Vineyard manager Lisa Ezzard loads grapes.
Red Barn Chef Leon Lemoine and wife Shannon, serve Jambalaya at the harvest party.
Assistant winemaker Matt Rager and Ezzard granddaughter Georgia O'Farrell load grapes from harvest party pickers.
The Clemson Tigers are faithful TMV wine lovers!
Martha's Norton, is grown organically,
but the wine is so far not organically made.
The Ezzard vineyard 2019 Cabernet Franc.
Vineyard Manager Lisa Ezzard and vineyard dog Hamilton check out the vineyards in all seasons!
Ezzard granddaughter Georgia O'Farrell toasts another harvest crush in the production room!
TMV partners John and Marilyn McMullan and Lisa Ezzard enjoy a wine club event.
Vineyard Manager Lisa Ezzard punches down the "cap" (grape skins) on the fermenting 2019 Malbec!
Friends and wine happily meet in the Tasting Room most Saturdays!
John Ezzard, Jr. pitches in to help at harvest.
Ezzard daughter Shelly Ezzard Smith cooks some creative dishes with TMV wine.
 Winery co-owners the Ezzards and the McMullans founded the Red Barn Café in 2012!
Guitarist Bradley Smith is one of TMV's
most popular musicians!
 Tiger Mountain staffers celebrate TMV's gold medal
in the L.A. International Wine Competition!
OUR TASTING ROOM HAS WINE GIFTS GALORE -- AND WE SHIP!
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In addition to logo shirts, vests, hats, and Tiger stripe stoppers, a popular gift for football fans is our Tiger Tanker ---- and an elegant gift for special people in your life for Valentine's or other special occasions is a bottle of Sweet Petit in a lovely mesh sack ---- named "Best Dessert wine in Georgia, 2016." Call TMV Tasting Room manager Delena Joedicke: 706-782-4777.
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KEY VENDORS
Winemaker John Ezzard at Decatur Sherlocks store.
The Salt Table in Savannah, the popular gourmet spice and gift shop, also carries local wines and has a grand selection of Tiger Mountain wines. David and Carl Legasse, the owners, are knowledgeable advisers about wines for the holidays! Fernside Package Store is a convenient stop for Toccoa residents to pick up TMV wines, including Petit Manseng and Cabernet Franc. Betty's Country Store in Helen sells a broad selection of Tiger Mountain wines.
See Where to Buy for contact information on all of our vendors.
Martha is scheduling Second Bud book talks for 2019 NOW!
Her presentation can include an update on the growing North Georgia Wine industry!
Wednesday, April 25, 2019 -- Hosting the Seneca, S.C. Book Club for a book talk at the Red Barn Café.
To schedule with Martha, e-mail her: mezzard@windstream.net or call her cell: 404-277-9040.
Second Bud Reviews
"In grape growing a second bud sometimes comes along to replace a first that has fallen victim to late spring frosts. As a metaphor for survival, perseverance and unexpected growth, it's pretty darned good. As the title of Martha Ezzard's book, it's perfect." Jill Vejnoska, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dec. 9, 2013
"The Second Bud," the story of how the grapes came to be, putting Tiger Mountain Vineyards among Georgia's foremost wineries, is a recounting to make Rabun County proud. Michael Leonard, publisher, The Clayton Tribune, Sept. 26, 2013
Opening Martha Ezzard's The Second Bud is like popping the cork on a bottle of fine wine: the more you sip, the gooder it gets. Forget all the glamorous, foo-foo crap you've ever heard about owning a vineyard; growing wine is hard work and so are the challenges the author and her husband face. So lush is Martha's telling that the reader is caught up in the fragrant, beautiful landscape of the vineyard without ever having set foot on the soil." Nancy Stephan, Memoir/Autobiography Judge Georgia Writers Assn., 2014
While traveling with Martha from Denver, Colorado to Atlanta and finally full-time to Tiger, be prepared for detours that will yank your heart strings and strike your funny bone... John Shivers, Georgia Mountain Laurel, October 2014
The Second Bud is a poignant narrative told with humorous anecdotes and poetic visual imagery. M.J. Sullivan, Northeast Georgia Living, spring, 2014
Ezzard knows how to tell a story, to pull readers out of their everyday routines and lure them into her changing world. "A Toast to The Second bud and Starting Over." Barbara Schneider, publisher, Smoke Signals, Big Canoe News
It's the idea of being about the soil, a sense of taste and of place.... Scottie Taylor Iverson, the Villager, Denver, Colorado, March 13, 2014
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Where to buy The Second Bud
Martha Ezzard's book, THE SECOND BUD; DESERTING THE CITY FOR A FARM WINERY, is available in the Tasting Room, and the IGA at Marble Hill.
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 The Second Bud was a highlight for visitors from New York and Pennsylvania Saturday April 28! Books are still available in the Tasting Room. |
 Ezzard signs books following a presentation to Auburn University writing class taught by Dr. Terry Ley. |
 Kristen Fricks Roman, Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Martha at the Georgian Club. |
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Pulitzer prize winning writer Rick Bragg gives Martha's book a boost at a recent Atlanta Press Club event!
Bragg's new book, Jerry Lee Lewis, His Own Story, based on hundreds of hours with the most colorful Rock and Roll star of all time, is a compelling true story, one only Bragg could be trusted to reveal.
Members of the Mount Paran Woods Garden Club discussed rose care in the vineyards with Ezzard as well as grape growing and Georgia wines.
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