Wine Country

Our columnists get a taste of Wolf Mountain and Accent Cellars in North Georgia

Women + Wine

Last month, we hopped aboard The Vino Van with Billie Harris and headed north to explore North Georgia wine country. We paid a visit to Yonah Mountain Vineyards, but our trip wasn’t finished there.

Wolf Mountain Vineyards

The next stop was Wolf Mountain (wolfmountainvineyards.com) in Dahlonga, a winery established in 1999 with the first vines planted by hand in 2000 by E. Karl Boegner, who was in the hospitality industry for over 40 years, including the opening team of Chateau Elan. This experience drove him to want to build a winery from the ground up. The location was chosen due to the high elevation and southwestern facing slopes. An innovative winery was built that covers 10,000 square feet and is gravity fed. The first vintage was 2001 and completely made from sourced fruit from Frogtown, a neighboring winery who had yet to complete their winemaking facilities. The two teamed up to produce their own first vintages in 2002.

To this day, Wolf Mountain continues to source their white grapes from Frogtown. The whole family has a part in the winery with Karl at the winemaking helm, his wife Linda helping with special events, and their two children helped