lummi island wine tasting 8/23/24
Hours, August 23-24 ’24
Friday 4-6 pm Saturday 3-5 pm
Found: sunglasses recently found across the street…and
readers left in shop some time ago…
Friday Bread This Week
Pain Meunier -aka “Miller’s Bread”— made with pre-fermented dough it contains all portions of the wheat berry: flour, fresh milled whole wheat, cracked wheat and wheat germ, always a favorite and a great all around bread. It makes the best toast! – $5/loaf
Sonnenblumenbrot – aka Sunflower Seed Bread– made with a pre-ferment that is a complete dough itself. It takes a portion of the flour, water, salt and yeast that ferments overnight before mixing the final dough, made with bread flour and freshly milled rye, then loaded up with toasted sunflower seeds and some barley malt syrup for sweetness. This is a typical German seed bread – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Traditional Croissants – Made with a levain as well as “old dough” where a portion of the flour, water, salt and yeast is fermented overnight. The final dough is made with more flour, butter, milk and sugar, & laminated with more butter before being cut and shaped into traditional French croissants. Quantities are definitely limited so if you want croissants this week be sure and get your order in early. 2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday Janice emails the week’s bread offering to her mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday will be available for pickup at the wine shop each Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Go to Contact us to get on the bread email list at least a week before visiting!
This week’s Wine Tasting:
Mas des Bressades Rosé ’21 France $14
Bright and refreshing classic Rhone blend of grenache, syrah, and mourvèdre, with splashes of Carignan and Cinsault; nice flavor balance of bright red fruit, wild herbs, and a vibrant, spicy finish.
Lancyre Pic St Loup Vielles Vignes ’17 France $16
100 % malbec; unfolds with dark, enchanting notes of blackberry, grilled plum, and jammy raspberry with accents of orange peel, vanilla, and tobacco spice, finishing with balanced structure, plush texture, and a lengthy finish.
Idilico Graciano Reserva Snipes Mountain ’17 Washington $28
Best known as a blending grape with tempranillo; all by itself this graciano grown here in Washington offers jammy aromas of raspberry and blueberry, with cigar box and light spice accents; fermented two weeks on the skins and aged 15 mos. in small French barrels; inky color, wild aromatics, huge fruit, zesty acidity, and lingering finish.
Economics of the Heart: A Resurgence of Hope
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/8/6/us-election-2024-live-news-kamala-harris-running-mate
An article in Thursday’s NY Times shows several interesting graphs of the recent surge of donations to the Democratic Presidential campaign. There were small spikes after the Tweetster’s conviction for voter fraud in late May, and after the Biden-Trump “debate” in early July. But those blips were sharply eclipsed by the huge increase of 600,000 new donations in late July after Biden bowed out of the race and gave the nod to Harris. These new Harris donors average ten years younger (55) than Biden supporters (65), with large numbers of new voters between 25 and 50 now engaged.
In addition of course, young women across much of the country are deeply motivated to vote against those who have taken away their right to make private health decisions. In numerous states they have successfully blocked state legislation that interferes with those rights, and those efforts continue.
The last few days have shown a clear contrast between the lackluster and unimaginative GOP convention and the engaged, motivated, joyful, and well-organized Democratic convention. These several days have felt tangibly buoyant, positive, and energized. Everyone involved seems to grinning, feeling the “Yes, we can!” hope arise as when Obama was elected in 2008.
These things feel especially nourishing because such moments have been so rare over the last eight years, with pro-Tweetster propaganda not only dominating online media and talk radio, but also often serving to tone down more liberal news outlets like NYT or WP with editorial innuendo, omission, or faint praise.
Our country seems to be waking up from the 70’s “Republican National Nightmare,” as Jerry Ford called it when he gave Nixon a full pardon for his crimes in the ’72 election, and getting appropriately motivated by Project 2025’s terrifying and explicitly documented plan to do away with Constitutional governance altogether. More and more voters are awakening to the domestic and international toxicity of today’s Maga Republicans.
In a very short time the Harris campaign has done a great job engaging our nation in a set of new possibilities for a positive future where everyone belongs and has the resources to thrive with dignity. Everything our nation has stood for for 250 years is at stake in the coming election, so every vote matters.
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