lummi island wine tasting dec 13 ’24
Wine Tasting hours through December
poster by Kim Obbink
Friday, Dec 13 4-6 tasting & bread pickup
Friday, Dec 20 4-6 tasting & bread pickup
Friday Bread This Week
Buckwheat Rye – Fresh milled buckwheat and rye flours are soaked for several hours without yeast in a method known as an autolyse. As buckwheat has no gluten and rye little, the autolyse allows the grain to start the fermenting process before the final mix, which is then fermented overnight in the refrigerator. The buckwheat/ rye soaker is then mixed with bread flour, salt and yeast and a bit of honey.– $5/loaf
Whole Grain Spelt Sweet Levain – Made with a levain, also known as sourdough, freshly milled whole wheat and whole spelt before mixing with bread flour as well as a nice combination of dried apricots, golden raisins, slivered almonds and both sunflower and flax seeds. Chock full of flavor! $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Individual Cinnamon Rolls – Made with a rich sweet roll dough full of eggs, butter and sugar. The dough is rolled out, spread with pastry cream and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Then rolled up and sliced into individual rolls for baking. – 2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday the Bakery emails the week’s bread offering to the mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday (and not already claimed) will be available for pickup at the wine shop Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Contact us at least two weeks before your visit to get on the bread list .
This week’s Wine Tasting
courtesy stoller family estate https://www.stollerfamilyestate.com
This holiday season we mark 19 years of this little wine shop with some pretty special wines from Oregon winery Stoller. We had gotten interested in wine in the first place because Pat’s son Don, (then living in Japan) got interested in wine and was taking classes at CIA (the culinary institute, not the spies) in St. Helena, and we went to visit. And tasted a lot of wine. It was driving home in our Eurovan with a bunch of wine boxes that the idea for this place was hatched.
Don moved back to the States round ’09 and spent several years in Napa Valley, taking wine courses at Napa CC and working at a number of highly acclaimed wineries before moving to Oregon and studying fermentation science at OSU. At present he is working at the tasting room at Stoller, in the heart of Oregon wine country, where we visited on our trailer trip last week and picked up some particularly tasty wines for your holiday pleasure:
Stoller Helen’s Pinot Noir ’19 Oregon $50
Elegant nose of heady floral, baking spice, and red fruit, which gives way to secondary notes of earth and black raspberry. The palate is layered and vibrant, which carries red fruit flavors and a ferrous minerality through a long finish.
Stoller Nancy’s Pinot Noir ’19 Oregon $50
Bold, exotic aromatics are lifted with notes of dark fruits, orange blossom, and star anise. The palate is rich and structured from 35% whole cluster fermentation. Fresh flavors of brambly earth, marionberry, and sandalwood carry through a long finish.
Stoller Late Harvest Riesling ’19 Oregon $25
Lovely dessert wine from the original Riesling plantings on the estate; beautiful golden color, aromas and flavors of honeysuckle, golden raisins, and apricot; round and rich on the palate, with bright acidity that carries the sweetness to a crisp, long finish.
Economics of the Heart: 30,573 Lessons from the Lies
During the dim times of the Tweetster’s so-called “presidency” from 2016 to 2020, the Washington Post’s fact-checking team chronicled 30,573 public lies. Like a persistent rainstorm, they started out slowly, but according to WAPO, the lies grew in number and scope over time, averaging about 6 claims a day in the first year, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims/day in the third year — and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 lies, only 14 months (half the time) to reach 20,000, and exceeding the 30,000 mark less than five months later.
Everyone in the entire World now knows that this man Never tells the truth about Anything. The lying, boasting, and baiting is his nonstop schtick, his only identity being the ongoing floor show for his circus crowd. If we have learned anything in these horrible eight years of his wearying presence across media, every day, all day, ad nauseam, it is that it is 100% BS. It’s a repetitive performance that we could not seem to escape. All these years later, our sanity requires that we start ignoring him and paying attention only to policy issues actually on the table that our elected officials can actually affect, particularly Constitutional ones.
We are in this morass largely because enough Americans were apparently stupid enough to believe the 30,573 lies because they heard them over and over on Fox News, Soviet-sponsored chat bots, and social media. Even mainstream press such as NYT and WAPO deliberately damned Democrats to please their billionaire owners.
Our main talking point for today is that the T lies constantly, fomenting new outrages every day to stay on every front page in the world. We cannot live like that anymore! What he says doesn’t matter; what his radical administration does with Project 2025 is of paramount interest, and those battles will likely occupy Congress and the Courts for the foreseeable future.
We need to start living our lives as if the T does not even exist– with the one exception that whenever he accuses one of his “enemies” of planning to do something dastardly, pay attention, because it is his “tell” that HE has already done it.
Our concern now is with actual federal policy decisions, most of which involve Congress. We in the Blue States need to remain fully engaged with our state and Congressional representatives to minimize the actual economic and social damage these fools can wreak. We are in a new civil war, and we all need to show up for it. But at the end of the day, the Tweetster is just the Jack-in-the-Box to distract us from the authoritarian coup that is now underway, apparently for the single purpose of satisfying the perplexing and apparently bottomless Vanity of billionaire egos. He is just there to distract us while their mole men attack our Constitutional foundation.
The Tweetster is the least of it.
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