lummi island wine tasting june 26 ’20

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Covid Wine Schedule

  1.  As long as COVID remains a risk, we will be pouring a comp!imentary 3-wine tasting on Fridays during Bread pickup from 4:30 till 5:30pm at the north exit of the ferry overflow parking lot (bring your own glass!) and…
  2. You can order wine online for U-pickup by appointment or during bread pickup (details below!)

 

Buying Wine During Covid Shutdown

During the Shutdown we are happy to fill wine orders online or by phone for pickup at the wine shop or during the weekly Friday Bread Pickup and Happy Hour mentioned above. Just click on the “Order Wine” heading at the top of this page for a partial list of our current offerings. To submit an order:

It’s that Simple! Operators are Standing By!

 

 

 

 

Friday Bread, Social Distance, and Wine Tasting

As mentioned last week, Janice continues to send the week’s Bread Menu to our mailing list each Sunday, and accepts orders till Wednesday for Friday pickup. Though the wine shop remains closed for indoor tastings due to social distancing precautions, Friday bread pickups have morphed into an impromptu Tailgate party at the Ferry Parking Lot beginning around 4-ish each Friday afternoon.

No, it’s not as Festive as our regular gatherings at the wine shop, but it IS nice to see some of the friends you’ve been missing (with appropriate physical distancing, of course!). So pack up your folding chairs and wine glasses and drop by to share company and conversation and visit for a while (and there’s plenty of parking!).

To make it more like old times we are now offering a mini-tasting (three wines, see below for this week’s menu) from the back of our car. It’s not the same experience as the wine shop, but it is an entirely pleasant and safe opportunity to grab some relief from the ongoing Isolation, taste a few wines, and enjoy some company.

We all thank Janice for beginning this tradition by moving weekly bread deliveries from the wine shop to the parking lot to allow for appropriate Distancing. It has become an enjoyable weekly Relief to catch up on some of the conversations and camaraderie we have been missing during the Shutdown!

 

Mar a Lago Update: Matters of Principle

We have mentioned before the continuing relevance of National Oceanographer Maury’s memorable ethical assertion some 150 years ago: “Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.” It is often claimed that “We are a Nation of Laws,” and we need assurance from time to time that our laws are principled in purpose and enforced honorably, equitably, and fairly. Without Principle, laws become the means of tyrannical oppression by an autocratic minority. When we look around our country and the World today we see lots of reasons to believe that basic Principles have become a quaint and archaic fantasy, wholly and purposefully undermined at every turn by players willing to abandon every ethic in order to stay in power.

In the last few decades politicians have strayed far beyond misspeaking, misstatement, and everyday spin into an ongoing practice of crafting Outright Lies, nowadays straight-facedly calling them “Alternative Facts.” It has become everyday practice for  Republican office holders and their media surrogates to slander their political rivals in mock outrage to maintain their grip on their Base– you know,”the Some of the People they can fool All of the Time.” The Washington Post has documented some Twenty Thousand Public Lies by the Tweetster since he took office, any one of which would have done in most politicians. He seems to have the gift of the true Con Man, the ability to “Pat you on the back with one hand while picking your pocket with the other.” His gift is the unconscious ability to to spew Nonsense to a crowd in such a way that each person hears only “what they want to hear and disregard the rest.’

Since about 1992 these behaviors have been legitimized in the public arena by endless repetition across a broad constellation of cable TV programs, right wing media personalities like Limbaugh and Beck, Hannity and Carlson, and countless blogs and websites. We take our hats off to the morally courageous acts of Republican Senator Mitt Romney and Congressman Justin Amash who broke with the party and voted in favor of the Tweetster’s Impeachment.

It has been clear for some time that Republicans have given up all pretense of having a Platform or meaningful Guiding Principles.  Under the Tweetster they have one by one even abandoned those they have pretended to support since the 1950’s: invincible military, strong international alliances, balanced federal budget, low taxes. In the last four years it has become clear they will abandon any pretense of integrity to hold onto Power. At this point we can safely assume that the next few months will not look like any campaign season we have ever seen before. We should expect no rules, no Integrity, and no limits to Dirty Tricks, like:

Remember: as in the Twilight Zone, we are now Traveling in Another Dimension with no Rules, no Guard Rails, and Anything goes. And the head lemming thinks it’s time for us all to jump off a cliff into the Sea.

Scary stuff.

 

This Week’s Friday Tailgate Tasting

La Vielle Ferme Rosé ’19    France  $10
Classic and tasty blend of grenache, syrah, and cinsault from Ventoux;  fruity, dry, crisp, delicious, smooth, at a bargain price.

Folie a Deux Pinot Gris ’18    Calif      $14
Guava, pineapple and lemon-lime flavors make for a fleshy, brightly layered expression of the varietal, both soft on the palate and crisp on the palate.

Oregon Solidarity Chardonnay ’18     Oregon     $18
Bursts with fresh apple, pear and peach aromas. Barrel fermentation has smoothed any rough edges and polished the flavors to a bright sheen.

Oregon Solidarity Pinot Noir ’18    Oregon   $25
Rich and intense fruit flavors that reflect the warm and dry growing season. Aromas and flavors of cherry, blackberry and spice. Excellent balance, with solid structure, concentration and firm tannins.

 

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