User:Murgh/The Scholium Project
The Scholium Project is a California wine producer.
Scholium, derived from the Greek word scholion for school or scholar.[1]
Abe Schoener
[edit]A former professor with a PhD from the University of Toronto in ancient Greek philosophy.[1][2]
wine study group he founded at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he taught philosophy for nine years in the 1990s.[3]
sabbatical in 1998, took an internship at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars.[1] Schoener also befriended John Kongsgaard, who invited Schoener to work with him at Luna Vineyards.[4]
12-month fermentation, reaching 16.6 percent alcohol.[5]
winery is located in in Suisun Valley AVA, east of Napa.[6]
Production
[edit]An annual production of an average 1,500 cases (130 hl; 3,600 US gal)
Red Hook Winery
[edit]Red Hook Winery, a Brooklyn, New York project made from grapes from the North Fork of Long Island.[7]
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.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Asimov, Eric, The New York Times (September 9, 2008). A Thinking Man’s Wines
- ^ Feiring, Alice, The Wall Street Journal (March 5, 2009). Barrel Fever
- ^ Meuse, Stephen, The Boston Globe (September 17, 2008). Romancing the grape
- ^ Bonné, Jon, San Francisco Chronicle (August 8, 2008). Revolution by the glass
- ^ Asimov, Eric, The New York Times: The Pour (February 19, 2008). Brewer-Clifton and Scholium
- ^ Meuse, Stephen, The Boston Globe (June 24, 2008). Wine as essay
- ^ Taylor, Robert, Wine Spectator (September 24, 2008 ). Big Grapes Hit the Big Apple
- ^ Thompson, Lenn, The New York Cork Report (October 18, 2010). The Red Hook Winery 2008 "The Electric"