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Tasting Room now open Thursday-Sunday

Click here to see Martha's Second Bud book events!
Celebrate the holidays at the festive TMV Tasting Room!
  • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4: Popular jazz singer Monica Spears entertains in the Barrel Room, 1 to 3 p.m. Buy a wine flight or a glass of wine to enjoy her music!

  • HOLIDAY SPECIAL: As of December 3, select older library wines for sale in the Tasting Room. Supply very limited! Buy now!

  • SAVE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 for our annual Christmas Open House with hot mulled wine and artisan cheeses! Mountain carolers will be featured. Enjoy singing and wine and cheese the week before Christmas!

  • DECEMBER TASTING ROOM HOURS: Thursday, Friday, and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • The Tasting Room will be closed from December 20 to January 7 except for New Year's Eve- open 12:30-5:00 p.m. (We check voicemail every day - so if you need wine when we are closed, just call the Tasting Room, 706-782-4777, and we will accommodate!)

  • SAVE THE DATES: Our traditional winter Soup and Wine Events with live music in the Barrel Room will be January 15 and 29 - details to come!


    • The lively holiday party November 20 at the Red Barn, was a sellout!




    Winemaker Lisa Ezzard shows off a bottle of the 2021 gold medal Cabernet Franc Reserve 2019,
    made exclusively from Ezzard vineyard grapes!


    RECENT HAPPENINGS




    Artist and teacher Erica Watson enjoys harvesting.


    Winemaker Lisa Ezzard is happy to conduct barrel tastings for guests. Contact Lisa: lisa@tigerwine.com (See video interview with Lisa on Roger Glenn's website: parkbench.com/rabun-county)





    Guitarist Tim McCabe's music inspired recent dancing in the Barrel Room!

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    Lisa Ezzard celebrates the 2020 harvest!



    TMV guests and STAMPEDE bid adieu to winter at the May 15 bonfire of the winter prunings.

    Tiger Mountain hosted two outstanding young interns this summer - Trent Sutton, UGA, and Joey Streeter from Colorado College. Trent is the 14th UGA student TMV has hosted!

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    Wine club members McCabes and Callahans join the harvest celebration.



    Hamilton, the Ezzards' 6-year-old Australian Shepherd, is part of the TMV vineyard team!

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    John Ezzard, Jr. brings in the last lugs of grapes.



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    Can't get out or find a store for purchasing a special gift? Tiger Mountain's 2019 desssert wine, Sweet Petit, is elegant and we furnish a classy mesh gift sack with it! This Sauterne-like desssert wine is unique to TMV and sold only at the winery. For a limited time, however, since it is hard to travel, we will ship two bottles or more of it!

    Painting by Robert Balcerzak scbobb@gmail.com
    TMV wine inspires creative art!


    MORE VISITOR KUDOS FOR TMV! "Wow! The atmosphere, settings, facilities and story of this place are incredible. This is the kind of place where you can lose yourself for a few hours and enjoy some of the best wines in Georgia. There are so many neat spaces to relax, savor the expansive variety of quality Appalachian wines and be treated to a host of natural beauty, music, and curated spaces. Tiger Wine is not far off the beaten path of 441, a few stones throws from Clayton and worth the trip. A treasure of the region, for sure." -- Google review, Roger Glenn, January 15, 2021





    The Viognier is as crisp and refreshing as a mountain waterfall!


    Tiger Mountain Happenings


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    Artist Shelly Ezzard Smith designed all of our wine labels and also cooks creative dishes with TMV wine!
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    Vineyard owner Martha Ezzard checks out the vines with four-year-old vineyard dog, Hamilton!
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    Vineyard manager Lisa Ezzard loads grapes.
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    Red Barn Chef Leon Lemoine and wife Shannon, serve Jambalaya at the harvest party.
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    Our Saturday afternoon music often inspires dancing on the patio!
    Sweet Charity
    The Sweet Charity Trio plays classic rock and is a favorite with TMV fans.
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    Martha's Norton, is grown organically,
    but the wine is so far not organically made.
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    The Ezzard vineyard Cabernet Franc.

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    Vineyard Manager Lisa Ezzard and vineyard dog Hamilton check out the vineyards in all seasons!
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    Ezzard granddaughter Georgia O'Farrell toasts another harvest crush in the production room!
    gold medalTiger Mountain staffers celebrate TMV's gold medal in the L.A. International Wine Competition!
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    Vineyard Manager Lisa Ezzard punches down the "cap" (grape skins) on the fermenting 2019 Malbec!


    OUR TASTING ROOM HAS WINE GIFTS GALORE -- AND WE SHIP!


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    In addition to logo shirts, vests, hats, and three bottle gift boxes, an elegant gift for special people or special occasions is a bottle of Sweet Petit in a lovely mesh sack --- named "Best Dessert wine in Georgia" by the Georgia Wine Producers Wine Challenge. Call TMV Tasting Room Manager Erica Watson: 706-782-4777.

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    KEY VENDORS

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    Winemaker John Ezzard at Decatur Sherlocks store.
    Tiger Mountain wines are now available at Brookhaven Wines, located in Village Place Brookhaven where you will find Cabernet Franc Reserve, Malbec and White Tiger. Another new vendor for TMV is Mercier Orchards in Blue Ridge which, in addition to TMV fine wines, offers an array of fresh farm vegetables and fruits, local cider, cheeses, and a delightful café. Good news for Dahlonega wine lovers: TASTE Wine and Gourmet Food in downtown Dahlonega has TMV Malbec and White Tiger, both of which are sold out at the Tiger Winery! The charming shop has other TMV wines as well. La Grange wine lovers can purchase Tiger wines at Splash Kitchens on Broad Street while you shop for home accessories! The Lake Rabun Hotel, a charming and historic Inn on the lake, now lists five Tiger Mountain wines! Four Whole Foods have recently re-stocked TMV wines: Marietta Whole Foods, Avalon, Sandy Springs and Briarcliff as well as Marietta Wine Market! The two new Whole Foods 365 in Decatur and Buckhead carry TMV wines! Tiger Mountain is thrilled to be a featured wine at Decatur's exciting new wine and gourmet shop --- Wahoo Wine and Provisions, featuring wine tastings every Saturday! See www.wahooowine.com. Ellijay fans can now purchase some of our latest wines at Appalachian Beverage Warehouse! Clayton's award winning Fortify Kitchen and Bar as well as Fortify Pi list TMV wines. The U-Joint in Clayton features TMV Rabun Red and Norton as does Rumor Hazit restaurant. Fromage Fine Foods in Clayton also serves TMV wine. Tiger Mountain wines can be purchased at The Vineyard Wine Shoppe, 4414 Evans Locke Road, Augusta and at The Wine Shoppe on the square in Blairsville.

    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 still scheduling Second Bud book talks!

    She speaks November 9 to the Mountain Garden Club at tje Rickman Airfield clubhouse.

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    Martha and The Happy Bookers of Lake Keowee who enjoyed
    lunch and a book talk at The Red Barn June 25.


    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

    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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    New York visitors
    The Second Bud was a highlight for visitors from New York and Pennsylvania! Books are still available in the Tasting Room.
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    Ezzard signs books following a presentation to Auburn University writing class taught by Dr. Terry Ley.
    speakersKristen Fricks Roman, Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Martha at the Georgian Club.
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    Rick Bragg
    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.
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    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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