lummi island wine tasting june 18 ’21
No Bread This Week! 🙁
As those of you on the Bread Mailing List already know, our baker has taken this week off. Look for an email Sunday for next week’s choices.
Wine of the Week: Domaine de l’Amauve La Daurèle Séguret ’18
Domaine de l’Amauve, in the picturesque Southern Rhone region of Séguret, is a modest family winery of 10 ha that has been owned by the same family for generations.
The current owner-winemaker is Christian Vœux who isfollowing a very long family tradition, took over the vineyards and winery from his parents in 2006 after many years’ experience as winemaker for Château Mont-Redon in Chateauneuf du Pape.
The name of the property comes from the flower of mauve (Malva sylvestris), sometimes known as common mallow, which is prolific in the vineyard through the spring and provides both visual and sensory beauty.
La Daurèle is a carefully crafted blend of Grenache blanc (brings white fruit notes), Clairette (floral notes), Viognier (pear and texture), and Ugni blanc (crisp freshness), adding up to a round, well-balanced wine with appealing notes of hazelnut and heather.
Economics of the Heart: Irreconcilable Values
About a month ago an article in the Washington Post discussed findings from a CBS News poll showing that two thirds of Republican voters considered maintaining loyalty to Donald Trump the main priority of the party and believed that the 2020 election had been “stolen” by Democrats. Nearly half preferred deliberate efforts to make it harder for Democrats to vote than to support policies to attract their support. These findings are consistent with the fact that in 2020, for the first time in its 160-year history, the RNC adopted no party platform–just Trump’s “America First” agenda. This level of mass hysteria is the direct and intended result of the five year, 24/7 Fake News campaign of Fox News and Right-Wing radio.
In her 1962 book Economic Philosophy, Joan Robinson looked deeply into the relationships among economics, values, and ideologies. We have often quoted her observation that “any economic system requires a set of values, a set of rules, and a will in the population to carry them out.”
She also said that “a society cannot exist unless its members have common feelings about the proper way of conducting its affairs; i.e., a common ideology. As the events of the past four years in general, and the past year in particular have shown, a large proportion of Americans no longer believe in the values adopted in our Constitution and which have held fast for 250 years.
Since the New Deal almost a hundred years ago, Republicans have been searching for a way to justify the entitlement of the rich to accumulate wealth without regard to the environment or the welfare of our own huddled masses. Under Reagan the Eighties became the Decade of the Bottom Line, the Nineties the Decade of Vapid Pragmatism, the Aughts the Decade of Republican Secession, and the Teens the Decade of Autocratic Consolidation.
They feel Entitled to have way more than any logical fair share. Like feudal Lords they really believe, as Dick Cheney put it, “It’s our Due.” (for being in power).
It is much broader than the 1/6 assault on the Capitol. There has been an ongoing war on Truth itself for forty years, and now they have succeeded in making nearly half the country unable to tell truth from lies.
This week’s $5 wine tasting
Villa Viva Cotes de Thau Rose ’20 France $12
100% ruby color, notes of fresh strawberries and raspberries, a grapefruity tang and subtle undercurrent of mineral intrigue; clean soft, and balanced, with a lingering finish.
Domaine de l’Amauve La Daurèle, CdR Villages Séguret ’18 France $18
Grenache blanc, clairette, viognier, & ugni blanc; expressive nose of white fruits, mirabel plum, and acacia honey; soft on the palate with lively citrus flavors…very Food Versatile!
St. Francis Merlot ’17 California $15
A classic, rich, and soft merlot with aromas of cassis, plum, and dried currant that merge into layered flavors of dark berries, espresso bean, and bittersweet chocolate and a long, vibrant finish with a note of spice.
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