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Sit back on our sun-drenched brick patio and enjoy the vistas and wondrous beauty of the Blue Ridge while tasting the fruits of our family’s labor of love – the fruit of Virginia – captured for you in our luscious wines. The Tasting Room offers guided tastings, portable taste-in-place flights, and walk-in picnic areas suitable for larger groups. Reservations recommended. Open Monday-Thursday 11-6pm and Friday-Sunday 11-5pm.

Veritas Winery Tasting Room

Membership in the Wine Club is the best way to fully enjoy what Veritas has to offer. Each month or season (December, March, June and September) members will receive a selection of bottles from our limited production, handpicked by the winemaker for your enjoyment. 

Veritas Wine Club

Journey from the vineyard to the bottle with our guided walking tours. You’ll visit our crush pad, wine cellar and barrel room while engaging in a discussion of basic winemaking. Tours leave twice a day, seven days a week from the covered veranda and cost $10/person. Reservations are highly recommended.

Cellar Tours

The Veritas Winery Tasting Room offers a menu of charcuterie, sandwiches, soups, and salads. Enjoy the chef-prepared food with tableside service in the tasting room or on the covered veranda or order to-go to enjoy in any of our picnic areas.

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Veritas Winery was started by Andrew and Patricia Hodson in 1999. Born out of their love of wine and commitment to producing quality wine, Veritas has grown into a 24-year-old family business that is on the leading edge of the Virginia wine industry. With over 55 acres in the Monticello wine region, and producing a complex portfolio of wine ranging from sparkling to beautifully balanced red wines, Veritas wine quality starts in the vineyard, and the terroir of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Winemaker Emily Hodson, daughter of Andrew and Patricia, has been the winemaker at Veritas for over 15 harvests and continues to author the beginning chapters of a young and vibrant wine region. Her philosophy is simple - she strives to give each varietal natural, balanced expression by focusing on attention to detail and cultural practices. Her old-world principles of viticulture and vinification are met with her innovative take on winemaking using state of the art technology and principles to capture the true essence and character of each varietal.

Founders Andrew and Patricia Hodson met and fell in love in Nottingham, England while Andrew was a young Neurologist and Patricia was a nurse. Their careers brought them to the east coast of the U.S. in the early 1970s, where they stayed until settling in Florida in the 1990’s. After successfully raising their three children and and at the height of their careers they decided to take a leap of faith and pursue their passion, wine. In 1999 they bought Saddleback Farm, which at the time was a simple horse and cattle farm. Patricia saw the potential in the land and planted several acres of grapes with a wish and prayer. 

By 2001, they had their first vintage ready for production. That year, Andrew tried his hand at winemaking with great success and their love for the Virginia wine industry blossomed. Since then, Patricia and Andrew have worked tirelessly to expand on their vision, bringing Veritas into the world of events and the fine hospitality at the Farmhouse at Veritas. The business is truly a family affair as they have been joined by all three of their children in the running and development of the business.

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Cabernet Franc

Chardonnay

Malbec

Merlot

Petit Manseng

Petit Verdot

Sauvignon Blanc

Viognier

Elliott is the Assistant Winemaker at Veritas and works alongside Emily. He has been a member of the winemaking team since working at Veritas during summer holiday from the winemaking program at Plumpton College in the U.K. Currently, he leads the Virginia Sparkling Company and is the head winemaker for the award-winning sparkling wines in the Veritas portfolio. His attention to detail and passion for good, clean wine make him a wonderful addition to the family team. 

Elliott Watkins

LEAD WINEMAKER: Winemaker Emily Hodson, daughter of winery co-founders Andrew and Patricia, has been the winemaker at Veritas for over 15 harvests and continues to author the beginning chapters of a young and vibrant wine region. Her philosophy is simple - she strives to give each varietal natural, balanced expression by focusing on attention to detail and cultural practices. Her old-world principles of viticulture and vinification are met with her innovative take on winemaking using state of the art technology and principles to capture the true essence and character of each varietal.

Emily moved to Virginia in 1999 with the intention of taking a year off of school to help her parents and sister Chloe transition as they moved from Florida to Virginia. While starting a vineyard in Virginia seemed like a far-flung idea to Emily to start, she quickly fell in love with the beauty of the industry and the area and decided to stay and pursue a career in the wine industry. Emily and Andrew, her father and the co-founder of Veritas Vineyard & Winery, worked alongside each other as a team in the inception of Veritas, and Andrew held down the fort when she went to Virginia Tech to get her Masters degree in oenology (fermentation science). Now fifteen vintages in, Emily has become head winemaker and proud mother of two beautiful girls, Lydia and Charlotte, who have grown up on the farm and watched the winery and the vineyard grow. 

Emily is one of the few winemakers who cut her teeth in the Virginia wine industry. She feels strongly that with select varietals and true Virginia-grown fruit our industry will be unstoppable. Her philosophy involves trying to achieve natural, balanced expression of the fruit by focusing on attention to detail and cultural practices. But most of all, she just tries to stay out of the way as she allows the wine to show off the beauty of where the grapes were grown.

Emily Hodson

Our steel-fermented Saddleback Chardonnay is modeled after the “old world” style from Chablis, France.

Saddleback Chardonnay

The wine is perfectly balanced with intense and concentrated fruit flavors that round out a rich opulent tannic structure.

Brut

Rosé

Formerly known as Mousseux, Sparkling Rosé is a sparkling wine made in the traditional
method that is used in Champagne, where the second fermentation is completed inside of
the bottle to trap the bubbles.

Sparkling Rosé

White

Scintilla NV is a sparkling wine made in the traditional method, where the second fermentation is completed inside of the bottle to trap the bubbles. 

Scintilla

Our ‘primeur’ is a fruit driven wine with notes of redcurrant and bramble fruit. The wine has a short time in oak, which gives it a well-balanced mouth feel with the light oak character complementing the intense fruit characters nicely.  

Cabernet Franc Blend

Released early each year, Veritas Rose is a sure sign that spring has arrived. 

Cabernet Franc Reserve

For a very long time, this barrel fermented Chardonnay was called our ‘Harlequin Chardonnay’.  We used the word Harlequin because of the richness and complexity of the wine.

Reserve Chardonnay

Veritas Viognier embody the reputation of the unsurpassable Viogniers made in Virginia with varietal correctness and balance.

This is the red wine in our Momentarius series of blends put together specifically for our Wine Club Members.  We are embracing and truly enjoying the concept of creating a forever evolving label that focuses on producing intellectual wines for our most devoted consumers. Momentarius means ‘momentary’ in Latin. These are wines that do not fall into categories and in small productions they only exist for a moment.  They are new ideas and practices that really lean on mother nature to guide us so that we can show her hand in the finished wine. These aren’t wines we can plan, these are ideas that are formulated based on what the sun, rain, dirt and wind of the vintage give us.  Momentarius wines are bottled for you to follow our ideas and reactive creativity.

Momentarius Red

Red Blend

A signature blend that is modeled after the great wines from St-Emilion in Bordeaux, France.  The result; a new world wine with old world charm.

Claret

White Blend

This is the white blend in our Momentarius series of blends put together specifically for our Wine Club Members.  We are embracing and truly enjoying the concept of creating a forever evolving label that focuses on producing intellectual wines for our most devoted consumers. Momentarius means ‘momentary’ in Latin. These are wines that do not fall into categories and in small productions they only exist for a moment.  They are new ideas and practices that really lean on mother nature to guide us so that we can show her hand in the finished wine. 

Momentarius White Blend

Veritas Sauvignon Blanc makes use of several clones to delivery crystal clear wines with mouth-watering freshness.

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