This website is my limited contribution to the growing wine industry in the state of Georgia, USA. I have been taking in interest in Georgia wines for many years, and was responsible for presenting several of these at formal wine tastings in Europe.
Georgia is not the best known of the wine producing states in USA. But it does have a presence, though most wineries are small boutique operations with limited production and mainly “cellar door” sales. It is on the climatic edge of reasonable grape production (unless your interest lies in muscadines, fruit or other grape species). Problems like Pierce’s Disease and mildew also drastically limit viable grape growing areas.
This website offers a directory of the vineyards. If you seek Vinifera and hybrid operations, there are 74 Vineyards operational or in development. Most have their own wineries and tasting rooms on site. Additionally, there are 21 stand-alone tasting rooms around Georgia offering wines from one or more wineries.
For Muscadine and fruit wine fans, Georgia has 44 vineyards. More than half of these offer on-site tasting, plus a further 4 off-site tasting rooms.
There is also a directory of related activities including 37 distilleries, 15 cider mills and 9 meaderies and various other related activities. For further reading, I also identify a number of “interesting” links around my home town, Dahlonega, and also other wine-oriented websites.
Details of recent courses and lectures I have presented can be found on the Events page.
Some of my thoughts on wine and related matters can be found on my Blog page