For those who know me best, I always have wine on the brain. Call me “wino.” And, thanks to local wine aficionados like Christian Depken, owner of Le Chai Wine Shop in the Starland District, I am edging ever closer to understanding wine, as opposed to just drinking it.
So when a read a recent article in the Marietta Daily Journal that described a growing wine industry in Georgia, I took notice. While Depken and other self-named wine snobs put their weight behind old world wines (read: European), I’m sure they’d all agree that the diversification of Georgia’s economy to include an expanding interest in viticulture is pretty damn cool. Not just peaches, pecans and pines anymore. No sir.
According to the Journal, Southern vintners are beginning to develop a foothold in the U.S. wine industry. And grapevines are spreading like wildfire across terrain south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
“…in the American South, the taste ranges from sweet, wet whites from the local scuppernong grapes (a muscadine variant) to Euro-style like chardonnays and merlots.
Savannah gets around. At this very moment in fact, our fair city is being pimped around the globe, courtesy of Sky Magazine (yea, a reach of 11 million). We’re a favorite feature location for the in-flight magazine and travel companion of Delta (and now Northwest) Airlines. In recent years, they’ve covered our history, fare, travel accommodations and business community at least five times. And in the current issue, Sky shares with savvy globetrotters and jetsetters tale of our cozy, creative business-friendly environment. That’s right, Savannah’s Creative Coast as light reading during taxi and take off.
An Industry of Ideas presents a handful of local businesses of varying specialties, at various stages of development, that all have two things in common: they love doing business in Savannah and a large portion of their product is ideas. Some of our well-known compadres make the list, including Hannah Byrne at Smack Dab Studios (a graphic design and website development firm that started in Atlanta in 2004 and relocated operations to Savannah, much to our delight), Chad Warner and the gang at BlueLime (a high-tech architectural rendering and architectural animation company that emerged from SCAD connections), and Howard Paul and Bob Benedetto of Benedetto Guitars (the world’s premier and award-winning jazz guitar maker that overlooked Atlanta and Nashville to move it’s hub to Savannah). The featurette focuses on what brought our creative friends to the Creative Coast and what keeps them here.
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