I was born in Florida to a German mother and a Spanish father and consequently grew up between Spain, Germany and the US. Surprisingly my parents are not wine snobs and know next to nothing about wine!

They drank an average amount, maybe less. I do remember my first sip of Sangria at a fairly young age and loving the chunks of marinated fruit; “a taste is enough”, I was told, because the fruit was full of alcohol. I'm often asked, even by family, how on earth we ended up here or if I ever imagined I'd be a farmer and business owner one day and all I can do is point to Dan, the obvious entrepreneur, and to my childhood and the various components that may have inspired this kind of work.

My aunt and uncle own a banana plantation on a cliff directly above the ocean in Tenerife, so maybe the farming gene is in the family though I never harvested more than a handful of bananas and a sea urchin or two on the "family farm". We traveled across Europe often while we lived there, and though we never visited vineyards specifically, they made up much of the scenery on every long car ride; Biergartens and Monastery breweries abounded....planting the seeds of ideas.   

Dan and I were quickly engaged (when you know you know) and before he left for Austria I told him we simply *had* to honeymoon in Italy on an "Agriturismo." This is an Italian term for a vineyard, olive grove or farm in the countryside open to the public for nightly or weekly stays. Who wouldn't want to honeymoon on a farm?? Ok, but it was much more romantic than it sounds haha. Well we did exactly that and the experience never left us. How to accomplish this in the US though? I guess we're figuring it out because here we are, 8 years later, with 37 acres in the rolling North Georgia mountains, with chickens, a future bee hive and an orchard and acres of grape vines planted and we can't wait to host you!

Limoges Cellars began in 2018 after a few years of intensive wine study and making wine in our spare time . After half a dozen trips to Europe within that time to hone our regional wine knowledge, we broke ground on the vineyard at Limoges Cellars in the Spring of 2021. The vineyard is situated among 37 acres of rolling hills in the North Georgia mountains, just adjacent to the Dahlonega Plateau: Georgia's first designated viticulture appellation or American Viticultural Area (AVA). After planting the initial 2 acres of vines, we began construction of the tasting room and production facility: our "Atelier Limoges" in January of 2022.

That same Spring we planted our next 2.5 acres of vines. The grapes we have planted between our two planting blocks are as follows:

The Avondale Estate block (2021), Vidal Blanc, Albariño, Petit Verdot, Merlot, Teroldego, Tannat, Nebbiolo.

The Atlas Estate block (2022), Chambourcin, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Sangiovese, Grüner Veltliner.