In regards to the lye solution getting hotter when you stirred it right before adding it to your oils... was your stirring utensil 100% clean and dry, or did you happen to stir something else with it immediately beforehand without cleaning it off? If you used it to stir something else without cleaning and drying it before stirring the lye solution, it wouldn't surprise me at all that the solution warmed up some. But if it was clean/dry, I have no idea why it would have heated up. Mine never does that unless I add something extra to the solution.
Besides the clove EO (which is a notoriously naughty accelerator), I believe the clay you added to this particular batch may also have played role in how fast things moved, due to it's super absorbency powers- especially in light of the fact that you were basically adding a severely reduced amount of liquid to your oils at first (before adding the wine). I'm thinking the absorbent clay sucked some of that water into itself, in effect increasing your lye concentration (the higher the lye concentration added to ones oils, the quicker the soap batter will come to thick trace).
The white dots look like classic stearic spots to me.
IrishLass
not going to lye, but what is stearic spots?
Yes, I am redoing my blend. I already started testing a new eo blend.
Stearic spots are blotches of stearic acid from your fats that precipitate out of the mass of melted oils/fats when the soap batter doesn't stay warm enough in order for the steric to stay in melted solution long enough for the lye to be able to react with it so that it saponifies homogenously with the other fatty acids. Whew- that was a mouthful, and that's no lye! 
