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LATE NEWS: Now you can purchase three great wines at all of Georgia's 10 Fresh Markets: Rose, Viognier, Rabun Red. TIGER MOUNTAIN WINS TEN 2011 MEDALS2011 Jefferson Cup in the nation's most prestigious invitational contest, for 2010 Petit MansengSilver, 2010 Petit Manseng, The San Francisco International Gold, 2008 Rabun Red, 2011 Mid Atlantic Southeastern Gold, 2006 Cabernet Franc Reserve, 2011 Wines of the South Silver, 2010 Sweet Petit, 2008 Cabernet Franc Reserve, 2006 Mountain Cyn, 2011 Jefferson Cup Invitational Silver, 2008 Malbec, 2010 Rosé, 2010 Sweet Petit, 2008 Cabernet Franc Reserve, 2011 American Wine Society Silver, 2006 Norton Reserve, 2010 Rosé, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Competition UPCOMING
Feb. 11: CHOCOLATE AND WINE! 1 to 4 p.m. Release of Tiger Mountain's '08 Norton which has aromas of deep cherry, smoke, and - yes, chocolate, perfect with our chocolate fondue and strawberries. Artisan cheeses and breads. Guitar music by Greg Presmanes and Co. - rock and roll, love songs! $15 per person *Limited '06 Norton Reserve bottles available, priority to wine club members. Reservations required ONLY for parties of six or more! 706-782-9256 or jonengel@tigerwine.comMar. 17: 1 to 4 p.m. Celebrate St. Patrick's day with roasted sausages, Celtic music by Marie Dunkle and the release of our 2009 Tannat. This inky dark red wine has barrel aged and bottle aged more than two years. Tiger Mountain Tannat has won 21 awards, including a recent medal in the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle contest. Admission: $10 per person. Mar. 23-25: Spring Wine Highway weekend, sponsored by the Winegrowers Association of Georgia. Visit nine wineries with a $25 pass. (See www.georgiawine.org) Saturday, the 24th, Tiger Mountain will feature music by the popular Mountain Hoo-Doo duo and its native American Norton wine in the newly renovated historic red barn from 1 to 4 p.m., as well as tastings at the winery with Sweetgrass Dairy cheeses and artisan breads. Wine highway visitors Friday through Sunday will be eligible to enter a drawing for one bottle of Tiger Mountain's 2010 Petit Manseng, with their receipt for any purchased wine. The 2010 Petit recently won the first Jefferson Cup ever awarded a Georgia winery and a 2011 silver medal in the San Francisco International, competing with the nation's top Napa, Sonoma and other wines. Apr. 14: (tentative) Tiger Red Barn café and patio preview - JEFFERSON CUP PARTY to celebrate the release of the 2011 Petit Manseng. The 2010 Petit was the first Georgia winner of the coveted Jefferson Cup in a national invitation-only contest among top U.S. wineries! Party details to come. May 5: SAVE THE DATE FOR TIGER MOUNTAIN'S AWAKENING THE VINES CELEBRATION FEATURING THE FEED AND SEED MARCHING ABOMINABLES! Winter hours: Friday, 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.; other times by appointment: 706-782-4777. WINE GIFTS FOR SHIPPING
We ship wine, four bottles or more, anywhere in Georgia and some other states. Check with us for which states we can ship to outside of Georgia. Orders can be placed by phone, 706-782-4777 or email to our tasting room manager Jon Engel: jonengel@tigerwine.com We ship Fed Ex Ground; shipping and handling for wine orders ranges from $18 to $25. We ship the Tiger Tanker (without the wine), which sells for $30 in the tasting room, for $39.95 including shipping.
THE PERFECT GRAPE FOR A TIGER MOUNTAIN TERRIOR
Winemaker John Ezzard and Martha relax on new patio at TMV's red barn to celebrate the news that Tiger Mountain's 2010 Petit Manseng won a 2011 Jefferson Cup. Only two Georgia wineries were invited to compete in the select national contest headed by Doug Frost, one of three in the world with both Master of Wine and Master Sommelier credentials. Each year 500 wineries are chosen by Frost as the best examples of excellence in their regions of the country, including top California wineries. Of the almost 3,000 wines sampled in the blind tastings this year, only 25 won Jefferson Cups.Tiger Mountain produces the only commercially available Petit Manseng in Georgia. Ezzard was the pioneer in growing and making the rare varietal wine. It is sold (or can be ordered) in Whole Foods stores and is served by the glass at Woodfire Grill in Atlanta and Fleming's at Perimeter Center as well as at The Lake Rabun Hotel in Rabun County.It may be purchased at Tiger's satellite tasting room, Naturally Georgia, in the Dahlonega Square and also in some Atlanta Whole Foods stores (Alpharetta and Buckhead). TMV Petit Manseng vintages have won two consecutive silver medals in the San Francisco International the last two years. RECENT HAPPENINGS AT THE WINERY January party goers enjoy hot mulled wine and dancing in the barrel room!  Good to the last serving - John Ezzard hopes for more of Chef Jamie Allred (Lake Rabun Hotel) roasted chestnut soup, a big hit with party goers at a recent barrel room party.  Brenda and Brook Ballagh of Otto, N.C., at holiday party; festive music by Marie Dunkle and Marjorie Swink.  Jazz singer Monica Spears entertains at Jan. 28 soup and wine party in the barrel room.  Winemaker John Ezzard celebrates a near perfect harvest.  Tasting Room manager and assistant winemaker Jon Engel pours the award winning 2010 Petit Manseng for Lisa Ezzard.  2011 harvest partygoers pick to the piper - George McClellan on bagpipes in vineyards!  The harvest party features Sweet Grass Dairy cheeses, John Templeton's flower arrangements and local volunteers and wine lovers at work.  Martha and John Ezzard examine recent Petit Manseng harvest from Ezzard vineyards.  Peter McIntosh instructs wine club members on grape picking technique for harvest of the 2011 Norton vintage.  Mountain Hoodoo's performance was a highlight of Farm Winery Day.  TMV winemaker John Ezzard and Mark Braunstein, manager of the Robert Parker website, confer with acclaimed winemaker Thibault Liger-Belair in his Nuit St. Georges cave on a recent trip to Burgundy.  Seed and Feed Marching Abominable in full force for Awakening the Vines.  TMV partner John McMullan takes a turn cutting bread at a recent wine club party!  Co-owners Marilyn and John McMullan at a recent patio party.  Jabe Hilson grills shrimp (marinated in TMV Viognier) under the old oak trees. WELCOME NEW RETAILERS Winemaker John Ezzard at Decatur Sherlocks store. Locally grown wine and food are not only popular, but key to our environmental health. Three Tiger Mountain wines are now available at the 10 Fresh Markets in Georgia: Viognier, Rose, Rabun Red!  A "locally grown" vineyard dinner for visiting artists at the Hambidge Center for the Arts with local Chef Cindy Halbkat See "Where to Buy" for contact information on all of our vendors. CRITICS CORNERWine Tasting Review: Tiger Mountain Vineyards- Hart Deer, Wine Time 9/2/2011 Check out Hart Deer's recent review of Tiger Mountain wines, especially of Mountain Cyn, on this lively web site, www.amazingfoodcircus.com "...the flavor is bold and forward ... the aroma flows up from your mouth into your nostrils. You feel something in your mouth that's like sitting in front of a fire in a log cabin on a snowy mountain day." Deer says, "If you think you could ever enjoy wine tasting, go to Tiger Mountain Vineyards. Everything you could want in a wine tasting is there. $5 gets you a generous selection of wines ... unlimited fruit, cheese and bread, and they aren't the cheap stuff." Tiger Mountain Vineyards - One Incredible Tour! - p.kelley, Southeast Vino 8/19/11 Life just keeps getting better around here in North Georgia Wine Country these days.... Today, we visited a vineyard that has made a perfected art of creating beautiful wines from grapes that thrive in this area. That vineyard was Tiger Mountain Vineyards. What impresses me so much about this winery is that they aren't trying to make vintages that compete with Napa. Instead, they are creating wine that offers something beautiful and different. Thus being true to the art of winemaking, but making their own statement as well. Some of the more spectacular vintages we tried today were the Norton, Touriga Nacional, Tannat, and Malbec. All remarkable, all well priced and all grown locally. Combined, they provide more than ample reason for sites like this one to exist. Georgia wine has really started to rock and it is exciting as hell! ...Special thanks to Jonathan Engel, tasting room manager, for spending quite a bit of time with us today, discussing the processes, struggles and successes that Tiger Mountain Vineyards faces each season. Tiger Rosé tops the French - Ulysses and Lourdes Arteaga 7/5/11 Wine club members 
We just came back from a trip to Aix-en-Provence to visit some of the wineries and taste their famous rosé wines. Tiger's Rosé wine can easily compete with the award wining rosés of Aix-en-Provence. Will be visiting Tiger Winery in the end of the month and of course buying more rosé wines. Love Tiger's Rosé wine!
Bravo for Tiger Mountain Malbec! - Master Sommelier Yves Durand (Tasted 08/12/10) "Attractive forward aroma of ripe black fruit, plum and Bing cherries. Most enticing! On the palate rich and opulent, full bodied entrance of delicious red and black juicy fruits. Fleshy and velvety texture, round and supple. Quite harmonious. The middle palate lacks some intensity but the sensual finish redeems the nectar which lingers as a soft fleshy lover (speaking of long, long ago past experiences). Over all this is a very well made Malbec. I was born a few miles away from Cahors where Malbec is king. My Grand-father had a small vineyard; but too far to be included in said Appellation. He never produced such a tasty Malbec nor did I ever savor a Cahors wine as good as this expression of Malbec. Bravo!!!" Tiger Mountain TNT-a great food wine! - Randall Murray,The Gainesville Times, 5/4/11 "The primary grape used in the production of Port is Touriga Nacional. Coincidentally, this grape is popular in Georgia wine county, with a number of northeast Georgia wineries, producing a dry red wine from Touriga Nacional. Tiger Mountain Vineyards in Rabun County offers a full bodied dry red called TNT - for Touriga Nacional and Tannat, a grape with origins in southwest France. It's a great food wine and stands up to hearty meat dishes." Petit Manseng wins acclaim from international wine critic Doug Frost Choosing Tiger Mountain's '07 Petit Manseng as one of his "10 Most Exciting and Unusual Wine Finds," Doug Frost, Master Sommelier and Master of Wine, wrote in Tom Stevenson's 2009 (global) Wine Report: "Is Petit Manseng the right grape for Georgia's elevated vineyards in the northeast? Who the heck knows? But this is very, very interesting, balanced with honey, lemon, apples, and some ripe melon." WINE NEWSTiger Mountain Vineyards releases its first dessert wine, Sweet Petit.
A late harvest Petit Manseng, Sweet Petit is filled with delicious honey, apple and melon flavors. Don't miss this elegant Sauterne-like dessert wine - only 400 bottles produced. This first vintage has been awarded two silver medals in competition this year; first in the American Wine Society and then again in the Jefferson Cup Invitational.
TMV 2010 Rosé available at the winery - supply limited! 
Tiger Mountain's 2010 Rosé is available at the winery. This vintage, which won a silver medal in the Jefferson Cup Invitational, is only $15 per bottle.
MEDIA SPOTLIGHTCo-owner Martha Ezzard's article on growing Petit Manseng in Georgia is featured in the November 2011 issue of the national industry magazine, Wines and Vines, and includes photos of the winery and vineyards and of Dr. John Ezzard, the winemaker. The editors call Petit Manseng, "A Southern Classic." Tiger Mountain Vineyards harvest and history are featured in a four page spread by Bill Bauer in the Sept-Oct issue of Upstate Lake Living (Seneca, S.C.) The vineyards and winery were the focus of two articles in August on Rabun County's first Farm Winery Day: Sally White wrote about the event in Atlanta's Northside Neighbor; Randall Murray, wine columnist for The Gainesville Times featured it in a July 7 piece. Murray also wrote a positive review of TMV wines in the Times in May. The Athens Banner Herald also published an article on Tiger Mountain wines in May. TMV was highlighted Aug. 19th on the wine website, Southeast Vino. Look for an in-depth article in the upcoming fall edition of Wines and Vines magazine about Petit Manseng at growing and making Petit Manseng at Tiger Mountain. UGA INTERNS AT TIGER MOUNTAINRecognizing the growing North Georgia wine industry, Dean Scott Angle of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences joined with the Winegrowers Association of Georgia to create an internship program, now in its fourth year. The college also holds viticulture courses in Cortona, Italy each spring. Tiger Mountain is hosted its fourth Intern, Phil Stice this summer and fall. UGA interns have worked also at Blackstock Vineyards and Winery, Habersham Winery, Wolf Mountain, Montaluce and Persimmon Creek Vineyards.  UGA horticulture major Griffin Hans of Alpharetta, Tiger Mountain's 2011 intern, works in the vineyards and in the winery tasting room.  UGA intern Phil Stice helps with the crushing process at Tiger Mountain's 2010 harvest TMV SATELLITE TASTING ROOM Vickie Cooper, manager of the Dahlonega tasting room, recently visited Tiger Mountain. Naturally Georgia offers wine tastings and cheeses Wednesday through Sunday. Its location is 90 Dahlonega Square. Wine expert Vickie Cooper pairs Tiger Mountain wines with local cheeses. She gives terrific advice for entertaining with wine. The colorful shop offers pottery and local art, jewelry, hand made candles and soaps. See www.naturallygeorgia.com or call 706-864-0832 for details. TIGER MOUNTAIN VINEYARDS RECENT AWARDS Shelly Ezzard Smith designed Tiger Mountain's labels which have won awards in the San Francisco International Wine Festival and the Los Angles County Fair Tiger Mountain won two medals for its labels in the 2009 California Lodi Competition, headed by U.C. Davis professors, which were described by the judges as "artistic and graceful." Tiger Mountain's unique tri-color labels, which portray a profile of Tiger Mountain vertically on each bottle, were created by Shelly Ezzard Smith and printed by Wright Labels of Thomasville, N.C. The latest awards bring to four the label design medals in international contests; the previous include the Los Angeles County Fair and the San Francisco International. TMV partner John McMullan receives UGA honor
John F. McMullan, partner in Tiger Mountain Vineyards, was honored recently at a university luncheon in Athens with the prestigious Alumni Merit Award. This is the 74th year the award has been given to a UGA graduate who has demonstrated outstanding support for the university in addition to achieving superior professional leadership.He and his wife, Marilyn, have been active in Atlanta wine organizations for many years; both are members of the Tiger Mountain Vineyards Board of Directors. McMullan serves as Chief Financial Officer of the winery corporation. |