lummi island wine tasting jan 19 ’24
HOURS for January 19, 2024
Last Friday we were in the Deep Freeze with high winds from the NE and 18 deg F, wind chill below zero. Bread pickup was out of Janice’s car, quick and efficient. No sitting under the awning schmoozing with the gang!
The Cold has continued through the week into snow the last three days, about 6-10″ of light and fluffy and a balmy 32 deg. Tonight it turns to rain and gets warmer, mid to high 30’s tomorrow. It might even be passable enough for some of you to venture out of your shelters and come taste some wine. Just to keep it simple we will use the same wine list as last weekend, when five or six neighbors came by. Therefore….
Friday, Jan 19, 3:30-5:30 pm: Open for wine tasting & sales (NO bread this week)
Friday, Jan 26, 4-6pm: Open for wine tasting, sales, AND bread pickup
This week’s wine tasting: hearty wines to keep you warm durin’ the Nor’eastuh
Phantom Chardonnay ’21 California $16
Entices with rich layers of green apple and pear that lead into spicy flavors of freshly baked apple pie, while barrel fermentation imparts a creamy, luscious mouthfeel finishing with sweet notes of vanilla and melted caramel. (especially soothing at room temperature! )
Jordanov Vranec ’20 Macedonia $12
Aromas of ripe berries with notes of clove, nutmeg and cardamom. In the mouth it is full bodied with ripe dark fruit and hints of herbs with a noticeable dark chocolate edge on the well-structured finish. Enjoy with cheese, beef, lamb dishes or grilled sausage.
MAN Vintners Pinotage ’20 South Africa $12
Aromas of dark coffee beans, red berries, nutmeg, and vanilla spice turning to dark berries and smoky plum; rustic yet silky and juicy, with smooth tannins, balanced acidity, and comforting intensity.
Taylor Fladgate 10 yr Tawny Port Portugal $28
Deep brick color with amber rim; rich, elegant nose of ripe berries with a delicate nuttiness and subtle notes of chocolate, butterscotch and fine oak; smooth and silky on the palate with persisting ripe, figgy, jammy flavors on the long finish.
NO Friday Bread Pickup This Week
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.
Lummi Island Wild– Canned Wild Pink Salmon and sushi grade Wild Albacore Tuna
As all of our locals know, one of the many blessings of living here is the annual late summer reefnet fishery in Legoe Bay. Though for many years it has been a mere shadow of the incredible harvests of the past as migrating salmon (silver, chinook, coho, sockeye, chum, pink) swam by on their way to spawn in upper reaches of the Nooksack and Fraser Rivers.
Nowadays the entire life cycle of anadromous fish (that return from the ocean to spawn in the fresh water rivers and streams where they were hatched) is under duress from climate change as well as from many decades of systematic over-fishing, pollution, and dams.
Given all of that, the Lummi Island reefnet fishery is a special gem, using ancient techniques and modern gear to catch a small number of migrating fish each fall in a way that preserves their quality and the ability of the stock to spawn and reproduce.
No doubt many of you have taken advantage of this year’s local catch at the Beach Store Cafe and/or the Reef Net trailer parked regularly by the Islander store. For several month now they have been serving fish and chips using reef-net caught salmon, particularly pinks . It is soooo good!
And now it is available in cans right here at the wine shop, right next to our stock of LI Wild canned albacore tuna, both almost certainly the best you have ever had!
Mar a Lago Update: Tweetster Advisors Who Will Vote Against Him
Well, this is a brief post tonight, and you might not be able to read this link from today’s NYT unless you are a subscriber. Adapted from an article by Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, it is cleverly composed, entertainingly presented, and carries a stark and vital message.
The NYT article is What 17 of Trump’s ‘Best People’ said about him. See also Longwell’s article in The Bulwark “It’s Time for Former Trump Officials to Come Out Against Him”
The basic message is a stark warning that we must heed the stories of “People who worked closely with Mr. Trump — whom he trusted, who worked with him every day, who saw him in private when the cameras were off.”
Her goal in the article is that everyone should understand clearly why so many high level professionals who worked with the Tweetster daily over months and years regard his ever holding office again a clear and present danger to our country and to the World.
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