September 18, 2016 - A unique wine with notes of grapefruit, butterscotch and sherry. Oxidative with light acid & minerals. Drink now.
November 11, 2014 - "Drinking window ending in 2013" my ***. This thing's still singing its weird song. Amazing yellow color -- it's almost tennis-ball-bright, or the urine sample of a dehydrated and over-'vitamined' athlete. Rich oxidative notes for the first two hours -- plus stone fruits and butterscotch. Left a glass out and went off to a movie -- that glass, two hours later, was perfection. Some of the sherry notes had blown off, or integrated, and what was left was a considerably less weird, if equally great beast. Glad I socked one away; wish I had more.
July 17, 2014 - Interesting wine. Golden amber, hazy. Flavor profile almost running up against some of the mild barrel aged beers of late. Score? What's the comparison point? It may be a Sauvignon blanc but to compare it to "typical" doesn't make sense. I enjoyed it for what it is.
April 28, 2014 - Tasted double blind, I found this wine puzzling. Nose was redolent of tropical stone fruits. The palate confirmed this - strong peach and apricot notes. I was thinking Gewürztraminer or some other aromatic white when someone guessed Scholium, which seemed reasonable. Only after the reveal could I pick out any Sauvignon character here, a slight herbal grassiness. I liked the nose but not the palate. Strange wine.
April 28, 2014 - I had a hard time finding any Sauvignon Blanc characteristics in this initially, though the Scholium style was apparent - there's a funky earthy character to the nose, the fruit's very ripe and tropical with floral and herbal notes emerging with time, and there's lots of extract and intensity on the palate with a faintly coarse, almost tannic quality to the texture.
April 20, 2014 - 22K gold, more or less. Slightly volatile nose of ripe pineapple and peaches. The palate is viscous and mild, ripe stone fruit and wax. The finish is rather hot, barely tart, and very ripe white fruit. The vagueness of this description I think reflects some lack of focus in this wine. It is enjoyable on its own but I don't see it much complementing food.
An hour or so of air did this wine some good, it is now cloudy orange and distinctly savory, less hot and more palatable.
August 12, 2013 - Scholium Tastings (RT NYC): Skin contact. Similar to the 2008 but more savory. Still alcoholic.
March 9, 2013 - In a vertical of 2009, 2010, and 2011, this was the clear group favourite. Peachy, herbal and delicious. It carried its high alcohol well, though it did start to poke through a bit as it warmed.
October 13, 2012 - Vivid wine. Cloudy, dusky gold. Soaring nose that was Sauvignon Blanc but more dimensional—grapefruit, apricot, something candied. Bracing on the palate, not sweet at all but with great fruit presence, citrus zest. Altogether a knockout.
April 15, 2012 - Dark brown/yellow and cloudy. Nose of peach. On the palate this is not at all SB like; peach and pineapple, a hint of caramel, followed by bracing acidity. This was interesting by itself (as all Abe's wines are), and actually paired pretty well with the meal we had (artichokes, deviled eggs and bruschetta). An interesting wine that was very good but not at all what I expect from SB, even from California.