It is exciting to write to you. I am very grateful for your interest.

I will tell you a little here, and then refer to you to the website for much more information about what we are doing.

The Scholium Project is a small winemaking team, working out of a beautiful family winery in Suisun Valley, in the midst of farm country, but not so far from the city. We work with small vineyards scattered around northern California, and we make a small amount of wine.

Right now is an oddly busy time—the farmers that we work with are doing all of the hard work in the vineyard, the wines do not require much care (they are either maturing quietly or, perhaps, finishing the fermentations they began a year or two ago). So there is not much of what you would call winemaking. Except for bottling. It is bottling season: in April we bottled three 2007 whites and a rosé, in the middle of May a few more whites, and we just finished hand-bottling a 2006 reds and all of the large-format bottles for the season. Now there is finally time to welcome you.

Some of you might have signed up hoping to buy some wine. I am grateful for that. I do save some of my annual production for the mailing list that you have signed up for. The members of the mailing list get the only shot at some of the tiny production wines (we bottled two different wines this year with quantities less than 20 cases) and first shot at all of the other wines. But I still conserve a substantial amount of the wine that we make for the retailers and the restaurants who have supported us from the beginning. For this reason, it is not possible to satisfy all of the interest that comes from private customers like you. At the moment, I am putting together an offering of wine for new members of our list. I will make this offering to you on June 13, once I have a clear sense of how much wine I have to offer. You will hear from me again at that time.

In the meanwhile, I have something in mind for all of you. The Scholium Project does not offer tours; there is no tasting room. But because of this late-spring flush of interest, I have decided to offer two tours of 20 people each. If you would like to join one of them, please RSVP to the tour director. The tours will be held on July 12 and 19. More details to follow.

I look forward to hearing from you.