lummi island wine tasting feb 16 ’24
Friday, Feb 16
OPEN for wine tasting and bread order pickup from 4-6pm!
contrails over the slough…
contrails over the slough…
This week’s wine tasting
Rocks of Bawn Shafts and Furrow White ’22 WA $19
Flavorful white Bordeaux blend of sauv blanc and semillon showing the waxy texture and fig flavors from semillon contrast beautifully with the fragrant aromas of the sauv blanc.
Top Source Columbia Valley Red ’19 WA/OR $23
60% Grenache, 40% Syrah; aromas of Bing cherries and crushed strawberry with aromas of black pepper, chocolate, and grilled meat and flavors of blackberry, dark plum, thyme, rosemary and spicy paprika; smooth, soft mouthfeel, tangy acidity and silky tannins.
Cote 125 Corbieres Carignan/Grenache France $12
Low yields of Syrah, Grenache and old vines Carignan; rich and concentrated, with blueberry and strawberry aromas with spices and black pepper on the palate, nice balance, and a long, smooth finish.
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Kamut Levain – Kamut, aka khorasan wheat, is an ancient grain with more protein than conventional wheat that some people find more digestible. The bread is made with a levain fermented overnight before mixing with with bread flour and fresh milled whole kamut flour. It has a nutty, rich flavor and makes a golden color. – $5/loaf
Le Pave d’Autrefois – Translates roughly as old paving stones. This is a ciabatta like bread which has a lot of hydration so it isn’t really shaped so much as simply divided into approximate squares – hence the paving stones name. Made with a mix of bread flour as well as fresh milled whole wheat, rye and buckwheat flours for a lot of hearty whole grain goodness. A great artisan bread -$5/loaf (or paving stone)
and pastry this week…
Chocolate Croissants! – The traditional laminated french pastry made with sourdough and another pre-ferment to create the traditional honeycomb interior, rolled out and shaped with delicious dark chocolate in the center. – 2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a lengthy rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday Janice emails the week’s bread offering to her mailing list. Orders received before Wednesday 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.
Economics of the Heart: Following the Bread Crumbs
Vietnam War 1966 – SWIFT Boats
Our inquiry from last week continues to explore how the hawkish, intolerant, pro-corporate Republican Party we never liked but could work with, sort of, sometimes, became the Maga-bots and domestic enemies we see everywhere today. Here are a few reads for this week as we search for the common threads that tie these things together, in chronological order…
1985: Under FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler, a communications attorney who had served on Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign staff in 1976 and 1980, the FCC released a report stating that the fairness doctrine hurt the public interest and violated free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. In 1987 Reagan vetoed Congressional resistance, thus removing the “single most important requirement of (broadcast) operation in the public interest – the sine qua non for grant of a renewal of license, and opening the door for the nonstop, anger-mongering Fake News that has proliferated and expanded across every media platform. This is what made Maga possible.
1997: The Project for a New American Century was launched by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. Originally conceived to promote American Leadership in the world, and espousing “strong interventionist and moral clarity foreign policy,” it was intertwined with both Kristol’s American Standard and the American Enterprise Institute, and was the foundation for the neoconservative policies of the Bush II administration. This is the kind of thinking that brought us the downfall of Colin Powell and the invasions and long-time occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
2000: Bush v. Gore : Bush won the popular vote in Florida by some 500 votes after a month of court battles and was declared winner by the Supreme Court. There was never an official state-wide recount. Gore won the national popular vote by a substantial margin.
2004: Bush v. Kerry: Bush prevailed after a campaign season of smearing Kerry’s service with the truly despicable campaign tactic that became known as “Swift-Boating” and several eyebrow-raising voting irregularities in Ohio.
Yesterday: Speaker Johnson recessed the House, ditching a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, important allies with whom we have a mutual interdependence and upon which the rules-based international order depends. WTF? Is he even Human…?
to be continued…
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