Head Winemaker
Emily graduated from Emory University with a B.S. in Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology, with a focus in Infectious Diseases. She moved to Virginia from Atlanta in 1999 to take a year off, and work alongside her parents in the development of Veritas Vineyard and Winery. It didn’t take long for her to realize that she was not going back to her original field of study. After completing her Masters in Oenology at Virginia Tech, Emily joined the family venture full-time. Allowing the Virginia terroir to show through in her wines, Emily focuses primarily on vineyard-specific qualities. Emily won Virginia’s Wine Person of the Year in 2017, is one of the founding board members of the Virginia Winemakers Research Exchange which was developed to further the progress and growth in the Virginia wine industry through winery-driven research. She is a co-founder of ViRV (Virginia Resistant Varieties), a wine grape breeding program that is a cooperation between the Virginia wine industry and USDA-ARS focusing on breeding downy mildew resistant varieties. She is also active nationally, as an executive board member of the National Grape Research Alliance.