User:Murgh/The Scholium Project

The Scholium Project is a California wine producer.

Scholium, derived from the Greek word scholion for school or scholar.

Abe Schoener
A former professor with a PhD from the University of Toronto in ancient Greek philosophy.

wine study group he founded at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he taught philosophy for nine years in the 1990s.

sabbatical in 1998, took an internship at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars. Schoener also befriended John Kongsgaard, who invited Schoener to work with him at Luna Vineyards.

12-month fermentation, reaching 16.6 percent alcohol.

winery is located in in Suisun Valley AVA, east of Napa.

Production
An annual production of an average 1500 winecase

Red Hook Winery
Red Hook Winery, a Brooklyn, New York project made from grapes from the North Fork of Long Island.

Schoener in collaboration with Mark Snyder, a founder of the boutique wine distributor Angels' Share Wines, Bob Foley of Robert Foley Vineyards in Napa Valley, and Christopher Nicolson formerly of the biodynamic winery Littorai in Sonoma Valley as the on-site winemaker in Brooklyn.