lummi island wine tasting mar 2-3 ’24
Spring Hours
- Fridays 4-6 pm
- Saturdays 3-5 pm
ahh, more signs of spring…
This week’s wine tasting
Bodega Garzon Albarino ’21 Uruguay $15
Pale yellow with greenish reflections, this Albariño is intense in the nose, with peach and citrus notes. The freshness and minerality mid-palate is superb, with remarkable acidity and a round, crisp finish. A lovely wine at a bargain price!
Angeline Cab Sauv ’21 California $16
Fruit-forward, easy-to-drink style with aromas of lush cherry, cassis, and plum and rich cherry and plum flavors with hints of vanilla and soft oak that linger on the palate and finish with complexity and length that over-delivers for the modest price.
Marchetti Villa Bonomi Conero Riserva ’19 Italy $27
100% Sangiovese from Montepulciano, aged 16 mos. in barriques and 12 mos. in bottle; shows intense floral bouquet, intense, nuanced flavors; ripe, pleasing tannins, and satisfying finish.
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Pain au Levain – Made with a nice mix of bread flour and freshly milled whole wheat and rye flours. After building the sourdough and mixing the final dough it gets a long cool overnight ferment in the refrigerator. This really allows the flavor to develop in this bread. A great all around bread – $5/loaf
Cinnamon Raisin – Made with a poolish of bread and fresh milled rye flour that is fermented overnight before the final dough is mixed with bread flour and freshly milled whole wheat as well as rolled oats. Some honey for sweetness, a little milk for a tender crumb and loaded with raisins and a healthy dose of cinnamon. This is not a rich sweet bread with a swirl of cinnamon sugar, instead the cinnamon is mixed into the dough and flavors the entire bread. It is a hearty rustic loaf. Great for breakfast toast, even better for french toast – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Individual Cinnamon Rolls – Made with a rich sweet roll dough full of eggs, butter and sugar. The dough is rolled out, spread with pastry cream and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Then rolled up and sliced into individual rolls for baking. And boy are they delicious!! – 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: The Ominous Resurgence of Vapid Pragmatism
“Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump – Caricatures” by DonkeyHotey is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Let’s face it, the world is going to Hell around us. And the forces pushing it there have been morphing since the Sixties, from Nixon to Reagan, Bushes I and II, and the Tweetster. You will recall that all of them, under the auspices of economic freedom, found ways to withhold federal money for the poor, the sick, the disturbed. The needy of all stripes were systemically thrown off the bus, out of the lifeboat, or onto the streets to fend for themselves. “No sir, no more aid for “welfare queens,” those single moms with five kids, ripping us off for another pack of cigarettes as they tried to house and feed a family. Seriously, that was a thing in Gov. Reagan’s California in the late 60’s.
Indeed, the sixties began an ever-evolving system of reactionary “backlashes” against interlopers who might cross unmarked class boundaries, including a range of heterosexual, homosexual, ethnic, gender, or self-sufficiency credentials. And let’s include the many ways White Republicans responded to the Obama Presidency.
Fast forward to today, and we see the Tweetster slipping out of the many sets of cuffs he so richly deserves because he is self-entitled to Special Privileges, like grabbing women by private parts, stripping rights from everyone who is not a white, Christian, America-born male, and bending every rule, every principle, every guideline of integrity to acquire one more penny, bit of influence, advantage, or perk, even from (perhaps “especially from”) those who have been disadvantaged by the same rules that have advantaged them.
We see this across the Red States and across the world in countless local hierarchies of “star-bellied sneetches” vs. “plain-bellied sneetches.” It’s the way we are or what we become if we don’t have an effective magnet in our moral compasses.
This all comes up tonight after attending yet another unproductive ferry committee meeting with County Public Works, which conducts the financial levers of costs vs. fare revenues in a consistently opaque way. So tonight’s insight is that, “ah, we finally get it that when you serve Whatever Company, public, private, or government, your loyalty is increasingly to the Company and its parochial interests, not to some broader principle of service or equity or fairness or justice to, you know, the collective welfare.
It is always a disturbing disappointment to encounter these petty or self-serving loyalties, evasive rationales, or deliberate prevarications in a dialogue aimed at achieving a common purpose. So we need constantly to distinguish in any particular moment when we are acting from principle and when we are acting from expediency.
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