Elberton, GA |
Once the sixth largest wine producing state in the country, Georgia has really seen an industry resurgence over the past decade with new wineries opening up every year. And one of the newer ones is Blue Cielo Farms in Elberton. It’s a business idea that came about while tending to some land on a completely different property.
“One day we were spraying the tree farm in Commerce and we came across some grapes. And it was a really hot summer day, and I was getting really tired of spraying these weeds and what not on the tree farm. And so, when we came across these grapes, I said ‘wow, why are we getting rid of these grapes? Let’s just grow them,’” says Cassandra Wiseman, owner of Blue Cielo Farms.
That was the beginning of the Wisemans journey into grapes, which eventually lead to the purchase of this property ten years …