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Best Red Vinifera in Georgia
2018 Georgia Trustees Wine Challenge
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TOAST THE HOLIDAYS AT TIGER MOUNTAIN!
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Try our TNT (Touriga Nacional-Tannat blend) for your New Year's Celebration!
 Saturday, December 14: Annual holiday Open House. Hors d'oeuvres and hot mulled wine. Holiday music by Marie Dunkle and Margie Swint. Admission $15, with $5 of that going to Georgia Forest Watch which is fighting to keep National Forest lands in Rabun County from being sold!
About Georgia Forest Watch
Georgia ForestWatch is the only non-profit organization devoted solely to the protection and restoration of Georgia's National Forests. Established in 1986, it is the collective voice for hundreds of citizens who cherish the forests of North Georgia. ForestWatch was recently awarded the "Clean 13" designation by the Georgia Water Coalition for its role in protecting our major watersheds which originate in Georgia's forested mountains. See www.gafw.org.
COMING IN 2020: Soup, wine, and live music in the Barrel Room first two Saturdays in January!
December Tasting Room Hours are Friday and Sunday, 1 to 5 and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed December 23-26. Open December 27-29 and December 30 and 31. Call for tours and tastings or to purchase or order wine and to ship holiday gifts: 706-782-4777. Calls received before 4 p.m. will be returned the same day!
 Tiger Mountain's Sweet Petit dessert wine is only sold at the winery. It makes an elegant gift in one of our red or green mesh sacks!
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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!
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, 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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 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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