Tiger Mountain Happenings
 Tiger Mountain staffers celebrate TMV's gold medal
in the L.A. International Wine Competition!
Vineyard owner Martha Ezzard checks out the vines with four-year-old vineyard dog, Hamilton!
Vineyard manager Lisa Ezzard loads grapes.
Red Barn Chef Leon Lemoine and wife Shannon, serve Jambalaya at the harvest party.
Our Saturday afternoon music often inspires dancing on the patio!
The Sweet Charity Trio plays classic rock and is a favorite with TMV fans.
Martha's Norton, is grown organically,
but the wine is so far not organically made.
The Ezzard vineyard 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!
Ezzard daughter Shelly Ezzard Smith cooks some creative dishes with TMV wine.
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!
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
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 2020 NOW!
Her presentation can include an update on the growing North Georgia Wine industry!
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
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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! 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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SATURDAY, JULY 31: Louisiana Chef Leon LeMoine serves lunch, 11:30 to 2 p.m. at the Red Barn. Chicken and andouille sausage
gumbo, potato salad, bread. Jazz Mountain's Ray Olson and Paul Sevaike will entertain. $16 per person. Pre-paid reservations required.
Special news: Tiger Mountain is hosting two young interns this summer - Trent Sutton, UGA, and Joey Streeter from Colorado College. Please welcome them!!
