Notaviva Farm Brewery and Winery
July 26, 2024. A weather system that had been parked at the Pennsylvania state line for a week or so made days very unpredictable for heavy thunderstorms along the front. Finally, it cleared a window for good winery travel to the northwest corner of Loudoun Country. Our first stop was to Notaviva Farm Brewery and Winery outside the town of Hillsboro. The town of Harpers Ferry West Virginia is only about 15 minutes away. Notaviva is the creation of Stephen and Sharron Mackey, who founded the vineyard in 2008 and built the tasting room on top of the family home. The Mackey’s raised their family downstairs while the winery grew upstairs. If you want hear more about that whole life experience, you should Steve’s book, Dream Build Believe: Love, Wine, Music and the Founding of Notaviva Vineyards (Mascot Books 2016). He’ll even autograph a copy. The tasting room is a three-storey vaulted barn of rough-hewn woods with 19-foot high picture windows looking across a pond a