The Scholium Project is not a company. It is the work of a single human being and supported and accompanied by friends. It has no employees (though there was an intern this harvest!). Everything is in the hands of the winemaker, Abe Schoener.

His winemaking is shaped by his education. He has a PhD in Ancient Greek Philosophy; in graduate school, his chief study was Homer. After graduation, he taught for nine years at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he eventually became Assistant Dean.

His career in winemaking began on his sabbatical in 1998, as an intern at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars. The next year, he worked as a cellar rat at Luna Vineyards.

By the fall of 2002, he knew the wines that he wanted to make and the vineyards that he wanted to make them from. At the same time, Luna asked him to take over as their winemaker. For the first time, he devoted himself to winemaking and nothing else.

In 2004, he helped guide Luna to the selection of a winemaker with a set of skills and experience more appropriate than those brought by an uprooted professor of philosophy. Since that time, he has concentrated on the extravagantly small lots that are the foundation of the Scholium Project.