Lovingston Winery
April 12, 2025. On our way back to Charlottesville, we decided to stop at Lovingston Winery south and west of the town of Lovingston off Route 29 in Nelson County. Wes Roberts, his wife Tessa Riley and her parents, Bill and Shelley Riley, purchased Lovingston Winery from the Puckett Family in 2021 and with it a winery that originally opened to the public in 2003 and Josie’s Knoll Vineyard, named after Josie Stevens, whose family resided here back in the early 1900’s. Lovingston Winery occupies a nice new barn amid the rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge range. You will drive past a barn and farmhouse area and then past the tasting room to parking in the rear. The farmhouse used to be the tasting room when the Puckett’s owned the winery. Now it can be rented for overnight stays and the barn is the tasting room. Inside the new barn is one open room which would be dark if the sliding barn doors were closed. A fireplace sits at o...