"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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9/18/2016 - David_T wrote: 88 Points
A unique wine with notes of grapefruit, butterscotch and sherry. Oxidative with light acid & minerals. Drink now.
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11/11/2014 - wormfarmer Likes this wine: 93 Points
"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.
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7/17/2014 - Mtnmd1 Likes this wine:
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.
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4/28/2014 - amateurwino Does not like this wine: 72 Points
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.
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4/28/2014 - salil wrote: 85 Points
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.
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