lummi island wine tasting feb 23 ’24

Posted at February 22, 2024

Friday, Feb 16

OPEN for wine tasting and bread order pickup Friday from 4-6pm

 

 

NOTE:Beginning in March we will also be open Saturdays from 3-5pm!

 

  

 

 

 This week’s wine tasting

Domaine Chibaou Surnaturel Merlot ’22     France     $25
Complex nose of black fruits, candied strawberries and caramel; round, rich and concentrated, balanced, with good length in the mouth. No sulfites.

Domaine Chibaou Sauvignon Blanc ’22       France     $19
no notes available

Garzon Tannat Reserva   ’21        Uruguay       $35
Deep purple color, fresh spicy aromas of plums and raspberries, full-bodied palate with ripe tannins and minerality make for a terroir-driven wine of unique identity.

 

Friday Bread Pickup This Week

Multi Grain Levain – Made with a sourdough culture and using a flavorful mix of bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat and rye. A nice mixture of flax, sesame, sunflower and pumpkin seeds and some oatmeal add great flavor and crunch. And just a little honey for some sweetness. – $5/loaf

Polenta Levain – Also made with a levain, known as sourdough, in which the sourdough starter is fed and built up over several days, then mixed with bread flour and polenta in the final dough mix. This bread is a nice rustic loaf with great corn flavor. – $5/loaf

and pastry this week…

Black Sesame & Candied Lemon Brioche: A delicious brioche dough full of eggs, butter and sugar. Filled with fresh lemon zest and candied lemon and topped with a black sesame streusel before baking. Ooh la la, what’s not to like? – 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: Alexey Navalny

“Alexey Navalny чб 2” by Митя Алешковский is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5.

For the past week I have been grieving for this man at some semi-conscious level. I never understood why he chose to go back to Russia after Putin had already tried to kill him once. Nor could I understand his perennial good spirits in prison. But since his apparent execution in Russia, it has been hard to think about him without feeling tears in my eyes. It is heartbreaking, and I don’t know exactly why.

He must have known it would eventually happen before he chose to go back, but he went anyway; and in most photos during his incarceration he seemed in good spirits. On a mission, perhaps, to make his people recognize their oppression and stand up to it themselves…?

I came to feel that he was in his way leading something important, something he believed in deeply about how people should be allowed to live. He confronted the megalithic power and penchant for cruelty of Putin’s post-Soviet Russia with a rare inner strength,  commitment, and an endearing kind of innocence and commitment, all honorable pursuits.

It is hard to say why I feel such grief about his deeply symbolic, sacrificial journey…some combination perhaps of futility, horror, sympathy, outrage at the brutality, and hanging out here for so many days on the edge of tears I don’t understand.

And I wonder…is this touching everyone this deeply…?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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