Scholium

By the dictionary, Scholium, derived from the Greek word scholion for school or scholar, refers to marginal notes or commentaries intended to illustrate a point in the text.

Alanat News 2008

Yet to call Scholium Project a winery and its proprietor, Abe Schoener, a winemaker is a little like calling Salvador Dalí a painter.

Alanat News 2008

Abe Schoener (Scholium Project) attributes it to electron transfer, but so far nobody has been willing to test that hypothesis.

Keg wine comes to the Finger Lakes, NY | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

Schoener is the philosopher/winemaker behind The Scholium Project, a collection of iconoclastic wines (eg, Sauvignon Blanc fermented on its skins).

Sasha Smith 2009

Schoener is the philosopher/winemaker behind The Scholium Project, a collection of iconoclastic wines (eg, Sauvignon Blanc fermented on its skins).

The New York Cork Report: 2009

On June 11th, 2009 at 4: 50 pm, Neil wrote: my vote: a wacky Gewurztaminer I recently tasted from Napa based Scholium Project, the 2008 Riquewihr, Lost Slough Vineyard.

Impossible food-wine pairing: fish and chips! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

But in the meantime I 've tasted some of the most intriguing and delicious wines in recent memory, some of them bracingly fresh and floral, like Petroski' s '09 Giana, a Viognier/Chardonnay blend; some incredibly rich and opulent, like Mr. Schoener' s 2005 Scholium Project Cena Trimalchionis, a honeyed nectar made from Sauvignon Blanc infected with botrytis, or noble rot.

Napa Jay McInerney 2010

A former professor of Greek philosophy, Mr. Schoener is the proprietor of Scholium Project, a winery that makes deeply eccentric mostly white wines beloved by sommeliers and geeks.

Napa Jay McInerney 2010

You need not give yourself the trouble of examining all the calculations of the Scholium.

Brendan DeMelle: Climategate In Perspective, Featuring Isaac Newton 2009

Other wine bloggers enjoy the challenges associated with opening up a Scholium wine and abandoning their preconceived notions of what wine should be.

Open That Bottle Night Report: Scholium Wine 2009