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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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| TMV wine fans enjoy outdoor seating and music --- vineyard dog, four-year-old Aussie, Hamilton, "chaperones!" Dogs are welcome outdoors but need to be on a leash. |
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6 is our next wine and music event at the Red Barn. Popular jazz singer Monica Spears and guitarist Derek Worth will entertain, 1 to 4 p.m. The purchase of at least one bottle is your admission. Family seating on patio ---- other social distanced tables on the grass or under the trees. In case of rain, the party will move to the Barrel Room with social distanced seating and open double doors.
NEW CASE SPECIAL: A GRATIS BOTTLE AND FREE SHIPPING!! Buy 11 bottles and get one bottle of your choice free!! The 20% case discount applies to wine club and non wine club who choose to join (You must buy two cases the first ear and receive lots of benefits, like free tastings and special party invitations.) Order two cases and receive a 30% discount! Call 706-782-4777 for shipping or pick up!
COMING SOON: Wine flights and music on Saturday evenings outside at the Red Barn: stay tuned for details!
No TMV Red Barn food service until summer when Red Barn Chef Leon Lemoine is scheduled to join us July 4th. Stay tuned for dates.
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!
Attention wine club members: Be sure your membership is up to date so you will receive your discounts and be invited to our special events in the future. YOU MUST PURCHASE A CASE PER YEAR TO STAY IN THE CLUB. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CURRENT CASE DISCOUNTS! Call the Tasting Room to check your membership status or to order wine: 706-782-4777
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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 2019 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 TMV Frost Dragon crew --- Leo, Lisa and husband Brooks, and Martha were out at 4 a. ma few nights this spring to fend off temperatures as low as 29 and 30 degrees! The Frost Dragon is a propane-propelled attachment to the tractor that spews hot air out both sides. Wine people are just farmers, after all!
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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