We are involved in two other projects beyond the Scholium Project. I act as one of the winemakers on both of them; in one of them, Graeme consults and confers just as he does in California; Johanna and Jacob lend their expertise and set examples of devastating efficiency and joy. Carrie, who worked at Tenbrink in 2007, has a crucial role in the other one. The first one is in Brooklyn, NY; the second in France.

This is the remarkable brainchild of Mark Snyder, a dear friend who helped to launch the Scholium Project and places the wines in New York and New Jersey. I will not tell the whole story here (here are two good articles: 1 and 2). We make the wines in a winery that Mark built in the bottom of a walkup in Red Hook, Brooklyn, two blocks from the water. We get our grapes from three heroic farmers on the North Fork of Long Island with whom we work very closely. I have spent about a third of my time since harvest in New York working with the wines, the vineyards, and my co-winemakers in Brooklyn: Bob Foley and Christopher Nicolson. Graeme and Johanna and Jacob have also all flown out to help with harvest, and the maturation and assessment of the wines.

The quality of wine that we think we can make is, as my friend Robert would say, mind-boggling.

Soon we will have a website online that will give you updates on our winemaking and releases, and allow you to sign up for a mailing list.

The second project outside of California is:

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