– Project: Installation of new fermentation tanks at Georgia Winery.
– Location: 6469 Battlefield Parkway, Ringgold, Ga.
– Investment: Declined to state.
– Scope of Project: The winery is installing 10 new 3,000-gallon stainless steel tanks and four new 6,500-gallon stainless steel tanks. That will add 56,000 gallons to the 53,500 gallons of fermenting tank capacity already in use at its wine-making facility and tasting room. To increase its output, the Georgia Winery will buy more muscadine and fruit from growers in Georgia, as well as merlot, syrah and cabernet sauvignon from California and Washington state. The winery also grows its own organic muscadine grapes on 15 acres near the foot of Lookout Mountain. For the first time, the winery will start making wine from the Norton grape, a hybrid that grows well in the Southeast and makes a dry, red wine.
– Compiled by Staff Writer Tim Omarzu, who can be reached at tomarzu@timesfreepress.com, www.facebook.com/MeetsForBusiness, twitter.com/meetforbusiness or 423-757-6651.