the university
The project has the great fortune to make its home at Whiterock Vineyards. Whiterock is an absolutely remarkable place with a nature so special, and so essential to the work of the Scholium Project, that without this home, the project might be impossible.
It would certainly be different.
Whiterock is a small, family-owned winery—one of the last in Napa. It is run with visionary pride by the Vandendriessche Family in the manner-- as I imagine—of the most venerable vigneron estates of Burgundy. What is essential for the Scholium Project is that Whiterock is a home for learning, experimentation, collaboration. All of this occurs under the generous direction of the family's winemaker, their son Christopher.
He is our Dean. “Our?” We think of this winery as our university; the Scholium Project is but one of the several small producers making a home there. We work together, dine together, dance together, and join every day in consultations and speculations about every aspect of our grape growing and winemaking. It is a remarkable place; harvest is its most remarkable time.
The other residents/students at the university:
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