Archive for February, 2012
Lummi Island Wine Tasting February 25 ’12
LEAP DAY LEAP DAY LEAP DAY LEAP DAY Well, I have just been on a weird little browsing journey. As often happens when I start this blog, I look for something timely, humorous, zany, or offbeat to start with. So because it’s 2012, it is also a Leap Year, and that means that there is […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting February 18 ’12
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 19: The Art of Wine in France Ryan has put together a new series of FOUR tasting workshops on Sunday afternoons, two weeks apart, beginning THIS WEEK, FEBRUARY 19! Each tasting will explore experientially how the wines of a region embody the cultural influences of the area. So you taste the wine, […]
Lummi Island Pre-Valentine Wine Tasting Feb 11 ’12
SPECIAL TASTING SPECIAL TASTING SPECIAL TASTING As promised a couple of weeks ago, this weekend will be a special tasting of five delicious California red wines from David Coffaro Vineyards, one of our long-time favorite winemakers. He was written up in Wine Spectator in the late 90’s and has kept his focus […]
Lummi Island Wine Tasting Groundhog Day Weekend ’12
GROUNDHOG DAY It is Groundhog Day as I write this, so it’s time again to consider its place in the great sidereal movement by which we humans reckon time and the passing of the seasons. As we discuss periodically in these pages, we are all familiar with the greater solar holidays, the two equinoxes and […]