lummi island wine tasting aug 30-31 ’24

Posted at August 29, 2024

Hours,  August 30-31 ’24

         Friday  4-6 pm     Saturday 3-5 pm

 

Friday Bread This Week

Breton – Incorporates the flavors of the french Brittany region. Bread flour and fresh milled buckwheat and rye make for interesting flavor and the salt is set gris -the grey salt from the region that brings more mineral flavors to this bread. – $5/loaf

Spelt Levain – Spelt is an ancient grain that is a wheat. It has a nutty, slightly sweet flavor and has gluten but it isn’t as strong as the gluten in modern wheat. This bread is made with a culture that is used to create a levain before the final dough is mixed with traditional bread flour, spelt flour, fresh milled whole spelt and fresh milled whole rye. It is a great all around bread – $5/loaf

and pastry this week…

 Brioche Tarts au Sucre – otherwise known as brioche sugar tarts. A rich brioche dough full of eggs and butter is rolled into a round tart and topped with more eggs, cream, butter and sugar. As always, quantities are limited, be sure to get your order in – 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 two weeks before your visit.

        

This week’s Wine Tasting:

Lancyre Pic St. Loup Rosé ’20      France       $15
Raspberry and pear aromas on the nose, with distinctive spicy, minty garrigue notes. Big, bold and firm on the palate, ending with a long, clean finish; pairs perfectly with hearty salads, grilled vegetables, kebabs, stuffed tomatoes or charcuterie.

Pomum Red ’19        Washington       $17
This “second” wine of the winery showcases the range of varietal flavors found at Pomum’s Konnowac vineyards. This blend of 34% Petit Verdot, 32% Cab Sauv, 14% Merlot, 10% Cab Franc, and 10% Malbec was fermented in small one-ton fermenters and aged in French oak barrels for 20 months.

Toso Reserve Malbec   ’21        Argentina          $21
Dry, full-bodied and generous; richly layered with aromas and flavors of ripe blackberry, sous bois, and toasty oak, with firm, fine-grained tannins that go well with savory meats and sauces. Pair with savoury herbs, rich or spicy roasts or spicy dishes.

 

Economics of the Heart: Campaign for Freedom

from Michael Vadon’s flickr photostream

It feels as though our entire country– perhaps our entire World– has been holding its breath since about 1980. That’s when our country went for Reaganism, fueled by billions from the Heritage Foundation, launched its battle plan to wrest whatever scraps of wealth middle and lower middle class Americans had accumulated since the New Deal and transfer it to a handful of corporate billionaires and compliant Republican Senators and Representatives. .. “enough to more than double median income—enough to pay every single working American in the bottom nine deciles an additional $1,144 a month. Every month. Every single year.” 

When Reagan was ending his second term in 1988, young and ruthless Republican strategist Lee Atwater successfully dreamed up the infamous “Willie Horton Story“  to discredit Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. It was enough to assure the victory of George HW Bush. The tactic was widely criticized for “crossing the line” of campaign etiquette. But it worked. It was the beginning of what became standard practice of Republican radio and television talk show hosts around the country telling non-stop lies about Democratic lawmakers.

That is the process which led inevitably to replacement of old-time Republicans with ego-driven poseurs from Gingrich & Co. to Dubya’s gang of neocons and their unilateral invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan shortly after taking office. Using the excuse of the September 11 hijacked aircraft attacks, they started a war that continues in some form even today. The casualties include :

Half a million people died and vast amounts of infrastructure, ancient artifacts, cultural heritage, and natural habitat were destroyed. There is little to show for all this loss, suffering, and grief. All of these things followed from the ego-driven sense of entitlement of the Neocons. Even Colin Powell went along with the “weapons of mass destruction” ploy, which we believe he later regretted.

During the Obama years, while the Republicans were largely held at bay from 2008-2016, their Party was increasingly taken over by wealthy, white, “conservative-entitled” CINOS (Christians in Name Only) who felt increasingly ham-strung by Constitutional barriers.

Led by arch-villain Leonard Leo, they burrowed into our Judicial system and systematically, over decades, installed billionaire-bought judges to significant Federal judicial positions, and brought forth a growing string of head-slapping Supreme Court decisions that robbed ordinary citizens of their Rights and gave themselves unlimited power to do WTFTW to anyone, anywhere, for any reason. You can read it all for yourself in their widely-publicized plan, Project 2025.

Which brings us to our present moment as Americans. In two months we will have perhaps the most important election of our lifetimes, and perhaps in our Nation’s history. What is different is that these Heritage people are Very Confident that they have thought of everything, hidden everything, and rigged everything to guarantee their victory. They have infiltrated state and county governments, occupied key positions, gerrymandered voting districts, dis-enrolled or made voting difficult for likely opposition voters, and lined appropriate pockets. They have had decades to get their ducks and decoys deployed, their booby traps set, their alibis air-tight, and their egos glowing with self-righteous Christian narcissism. 

So this is a scary time and also a call for action on all our parts. One small example is from last weekend in the wine shop, when we got chatting with a young couple sitting at the bar writing brief notes and carefully sealing them in envelopes. They were part of an extensive Democratic Party program to turn out as many voters as possible in the coming election.

That’s something we can all do!  Click here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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