A selection of wine from Wild Bush lines the tasting room shelf at the northshore vineyard. (Staff photo by Ian McNulty, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We followed the tracks made by other cars through the grass, driving between the vineyard rows, the usual path to events at this rolling property just outside Covington.
This time, though, the post at the end of each row was topped by an action figure or collectible toy character, tiny little totems that fit the playful mood of the changes here lately. A Leatherface character based on the horror movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" guards the vineyard rows at Wild Bush just outside of Covington. (Staff photo by Ian McNulty, NOLA.
com | The Times-Picayune) The vineyards changed to parked rows of mostly SUVs and then we could hear the band playing down by the tasting room. The tasting room at Wild Bush vineyard in Bush, Louisiana, sells bottles and offers wine by the glass. (Staff photo by Ian McNulty, NOLA.
com | The Times-Picayune) This was Jazz’n the Vines , a long-running music series that’s back for another season at a vineyard in the early stages of a new and very different chapter. Wild Bush Farm + Vineyard is the new name for a property that had been known as Pontchartrain Vineyards. In 2022, Monica Bourgeois and Neil Gernon bought the vineyard from founder John Seago, who made the property a destination for Jazz’n the Vines and other events through the cour.