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UPCOMING
UPCOMING LIVE MUSIC:
September 22: Jazz singer Monica Spears and guitarist Derek Worth: 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tasting Room.
September 29: Guitarist Mike Chaet plays, 2 to 4 p.m.
October 6: Jazz singer Monica Spears and guitarist Derek Worth: 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tasting Room.
October 14: Jazz Mountain plays at Red Barn wine dinner.
October 27: Singer, songwriter, guitarist Tim McCabe - in the Tasting Room 2 to 4 p.m.
A harvest picnic with gourmet cheeses is part of the celebration. | ATTENTION WINE CLUB MEMBERS: The deadline for responding to the September 23 Harvest Party invitation has been extended to Wednesday a.m. September 18. Gourmet cheeses and picnic - featuring Red Barn Chef Charles Maddrey at the grill! Picking to the piper is a TMV tradition --- grape picking by guests before the party to the vineyard tunes of bagpiper Davey Gregory! Ten percent of harvest reservation proceeds are going to the Dr. John Ezzard Scholarship Fund for a Rabun County High School senior planning a career in agriculture! CALL 706-782-4777 WITH YOUR RESERVATIONS!!! | 
Bagpiper Davey Gregory will once again summon harvest guests to pick to the piper! |
Sunday, October 14: FALL WINE DINNER at the Red Barn featuring Chef Charles Maddrey. $75 per person for four course and four wines includes gratuity. $70 per person for wine club. Last two Red Barn Wine dinners were sell outs! Make your reservations now: 706-782-4777. See Red Barn page for menu.
Chef Charles has added some wonderful dishes to his
weekend dinner menu --- see Red Barn page for update!
Tiger Mountain welcomed its 12th UGA intern this season, Ben Brooks, from Perry, GA. Ben will be a senior at UGA, has studied in the Cortona wine program and did a super job for TMV in the vineyards- as well as pouring, explaining our wines to Red Barn and Tasting Room customers! |
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Tucker Williams spent a second summer working in the vineyards and Red Barn Café at Tiger Mountain. Tucker will be a senior at Carson Newman University in Jefferson City, TN where he also plays college football! |
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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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Tiger Mountain's latest Tannat is now available in the Tasting Room. Taste and purchase this unique full bodied wine, always a sellout. |
2017 vintage now available!
White Tiger is TMV's own unique blend of Petit Manseng, Viognier, and Seyval Blanc! A great spring and summer wine - crisp and refreshing with soft cheeses, pastas, crepes! |
 TMV was first to discover that the Portuguese Touriga Nacional and the French Cahors region Tannat (southwest France) would make a unique, deep rich blend! The 2015 vintage has barrel aged almost two years and bottle aged three months. Now ready to drink --- stop by to taste!
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 TMV's 2015 Malbec is a showstopper! One of the best vintages have ever produced. Only 125 cases produced. It exudes dark berry tones with a touch of leathery earth. Great with duck, lamb, roasted pork, or ham.
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 The 2017 Petit Manseng is now available in the Tasting Room and and was named "Best wine in Georgia" in the 2017 Georgia Trustees Wine Challenge. Tiger Mountain's John Ezzard pioneered Petit Manseng in Georgia; TMV vintages have won four gold medals in the last four years -- one each in Los Angles and San Francisco and The Jefferson Cup Invitational. The 2015 vintage won gold in the 2016 International Eastern in which 1500 East Coast and mid-Atlantic wines competed!
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HAPPENINGS AT THE WINERY
Vineyard Manager Lisa Ezzard and "vineyard dog," Hamilton, check out the grapes for veraison, the August turning of the red grapes. It is an exciting time to stroll through the vineyards --- which all TMV visitors are encouraged to do.
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.
The Red Barn Café, open from May to November, offers an atmosphere of rustic elegance - enjoy a wine and dine experience in the 75-year-old restored Dairy Barn!
Friends and wine happily meet in the Tasting Room most Saturdays!
John Ezzard, Jr. pitches in to help at harvest.
Touriga Nacional and Tannat are both grown at Tiger Mountain --- TNT is a popular unique blend of the two!
 The Ezzards and the McMullans greeted guests at a 2017 wine event at the Red Barn!
Ezzard daughter Shelly Ezzard Smith makes oyster stew for Christmas Eve and pairs it with Petit Manseng from the unique grape cultivated in the Ezzard Vineyard!
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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WELCOME NEW 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, including the 2016 White Tiger and the latest Mountain Cyn (Norton, also known as Cynthiana, and Cabernet Franc blend). 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.
In Thomasville, GA, Liam's Restaurant is "The" place to dine-- Tiger Mountain wines are proudly served there. Guests may enjoy Tiger Mountain wines at the recently remodeled York House in Rabun Gap, an historic inn where owners Stan and Christine Penton host weddings, community events, and guests from around the country. The Healthy Gourmet in Athens now carries TMV wines. Owners Anne and Dave Wells, strong proponents of local food and win, will special order any TMV wines they don't have. Tiger Mountain's popular Rabun Red blend is now available in The Wine Shoppe on the square in Blairsville.
In Rabun County, the award winning FORTIFY restaurant and bar features Tiger Mountain wines as does the Lake Rabun Hotel with its rustic and elegant setting on the lake. TMV wines are also available at the Lake Rabun Hotel Restaurant, by the glass or bottle. TMV wines are also served at Fromage Fine Foods and Rumor Hazit in Clayton and at the popular Dillard House.
See Where to Buy for contact information on all of our vendors.
Martha is scheduling Second Bud book talks for 2018 NOW!
Her presentation can include an update on the growing North Georgia Wine industry!
To schedule with Martha, e-mail her: mezzard@windstream.net or call her cell: 404-277-9040.
NEXT EVENT: Book presentation, Wildflower Bunch Garden Club - 10:30 a.m. Big Canoe.
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, the IGA at Marble Hill, Foxtale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, in Prater's Book Store in Clayton, Dahlonega's Naturally Georgia, and independent book stores throughout the southeast as well as The Tattered Cover in Denver.
In the Atlanta Metro area, the book is available at Cook's Warehouse, Eagle Eye Book Store in Decatur, A Cappella Books in Atlanta, and The Book Exchange in Marietta.
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 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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