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lummi island wine tasting july 11-12 ’14

Wine club tote bags Earlier this year we bought a bunch of new tote bags. The idea has never been to use them for general distribution. I mean, Hello, we are NOT Haggen’s or Costco! Rather, the idea has been to provide each wine club member with a bag to carry in the car at […]

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lummi island wine tasting 4th of july weekend ’14

 Hours  One would think that after all these years someone would have figured out how to celebrate the 4th of July on a Monday, like all the other Holidays. But no, they let it be whatever day of the week it happens to fall upon, and that of course makes planning an annual challenge. This […]

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lummi island wine tasting June 28 ‘014

Jura Wines: Ouillé vs. Sous Voile One of the greatest highlights of our trip was our visit to the Jura wine region of France, north of Geneva and east of Burgundy. Here there is a very long history of making oxidized wines, which taste very, very different from the wines we are all used to. […]

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Lummi Island Wine Tasting Summer Solstice Weekend ’14

We’re back! After a very long day of travel, we got home from France last night on the 11 o’clock boat, after driving from Aix-en-Provence to Marseille, flying from Marseille to Heathrow to Vancouver with a 4-hour wait in London, delays with baggage in Vancouver, and of course that eerie thing of spending nine hours […]

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