the scholium project

Wine

tastings!

As often as possible, we host you. We pour wines. Rarely ours alone. How can we welcome you without the presence of our friends?

Some tastings are dinners. Some tastings are actually dance parties. Read carefully.

The Scythians Solstice
Sunday December 22, 3:00 PM-- at the winery.

$200.00 each

Post-harvest visit to the new space
a tutored tasting-- Sunday 12/15 at 1:30 PM

$25.00 each

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Post-harvest visit to the new space
A tour for Tina Oh-- Sunday 12/15 at 3:00 PM

$25.00 each

Post-harvest visit to the new space
a tutored tasting-- Monday 12/16 at 7:00 PM

$25.00 each

the winery

The Los Angeles River Company
A Society

$1000.00 each

olive oils

For years, we have made a few gallons of superb and super-fresh olive oil from olives planted and dry-farmed by the Tenbrinks around their winery in Suisun Valley. There is something really special about the very dry growing conditions, the careful farming, and the 20 varieties of olives planted by the Tenbrinks.

We have decided to focus on freshness in our oil-- on something analogous to the acidity and florality in Riesling. So we harvest early and press the olives right away. The result is an oil deeply and brightly green in color. There is no bitterness or unripeness. It is truly not like any other oil.

The harvest was great in 2019-- the trees were super healthy, the Spring rains encouraging, no damage of any kind to the fruit. We harvested on three separate days in October, pressed the olives on each harvest day and then combined all three lots. We have about 100 375 ml bottles available, and one more gallon in a big jug in case anyone wants some large format bottles.

2019 olio nuovo
freshly pressed, unsettled extra virgin oil in 375 ml bottles

$37.50 each

fragments of the LIbrary of Babel

We have a small number of bottles scattered over a large number of wines sitting idle and unheralded at our shipper's warehouse. 41 different wines; 2 or 3 bottles of most, a couple cases of a few. They are stranded, left over from a hundred other offerings. You may rescue them here. To reward you for your magnanimity, we have slashed the prices radically on some, modestly on others, but they are all reduced. Please help us find them homes!