The Virginia winery has agreed to transfer ownership to a Central Virginia group while retaining the Hodson family’s operational expertise and hospitality model.
Veritas Vineyards & Winery announced on May 4, 2026, that it had agreed to be acquired by Veritas Legacy Partners, LLC, a new ownership group led by Charlottesville entrepreneur and architect Kurt Wassenaar and Eric Trebour of the Trebour Family. The proposed transaction places a long-established Virginia wine and hospitality destination with local business leaders while retaining key members of the Hodson family’s management team. The release said the agreement is intended to continue the work of founders Patricia and Andrew Hodson, who are retiring.
The announcement reflects the breadth of Veritas’s operation beyond wine production. Founded in 1999 in Nelson County, Virginia, the business combines estate wines with tastings, weddings, private events and accommodation at The Farmhouse at Veritas, an eight-bedroom bed and breakfast on the property. The winery describes itself as an anchor property of the Monticello AVA and Nelson 151 Craft Beverage Trail, placing the ownership change within a destination model that joins agriculture, hospitality and regional tourism.
Under the proposed arrangement, head winemaker Emily Hodson will continue to lead the cellar and serve as a key member of the executive team, while George Hodson will remain chief executive officer. The release also named Andrew Murphy and Allison Evanow as additional advisers who will assist the new owners and Veritas staff during the transition. It said the transaction remained subject to various conditions and approvals and was expected to close in early summer 2026; the release did not report a completed closing.
The continuity of personnel is central to the structure described by the parties. Wassenaar said the incoming owners intended to preserve the qualities associated with Veritas’s wines and hospitality, while Patricia and Andrew Hodson said transferring stewardship to partners with the resources and commitment to take the estate further represented the preferred outcome for their family, team and Virginia wine. Those statements frame the deal as a change in ownership rather than a publicly announced change to the operating identity of the estate.
For customers, the release said operations would continue without interruption during the transition. Wine club memberships, Farmhouse reservations, tasting-room bookings and private events were to be honoured in full under the new ownership. The arrangement therefore leaves Veritas’s consumer-facing commitments in place while shifting ownership to a locally rooted partnership, with the next phase dependent on the required approvals and the reported early-summer closing timetable.
