lummi island wine tasting mar 7 ’24

Posted at March 7, 2024

Spring Hours!

 

 

ahquiet enough for conversation…

 

 

 

 

 

 This week’s wine tasting

Marchetti Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico ’22         Italy       $14
Verdicchio/Malvasia blend using only free-run juice; pale straw color with green overtones; intense bouquet of citrus, lemon zest, and floral notes,with complex fruity character, and crisp, well-balanced palate.

Cote 125 Corbieres Rouge  ’19    France    $15
Classic Corbieres blend of carignan, grenache, syrah, cinsault; rich and concentrated with blueberry and strawberry aromas and flavors, with notes of spices and black pepper, good balance, and a long, smooth finish.

Chakana Estate Selection Malbec ’20       Argentina     $20
Opaque, bright purple in color; pleasing nose of plums and spicy attic dust; full bodied palate of plums and spice with good length, balanced acidity, soft tannins, and lingering finish.

 

 

Friday Bread Pickup This Week

Honey, Wheat, Lemon & Poppy seeds – Made with a poolish that ferments some of the flour, yeast and water overnight. This results in a very active pre-ferment which is mixed the next day with the final ingredients which includes a nice mix of bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat. Some honey, poppy seeds and freshly grated lemon peel round out the flavors. – $5/loaf.

Rye w/ Currants, Pumpkin Seeds & Cracked Coriander – Made with a starter fed with rye instead of wheat flour, the final dough includes bread flour and freshly milled rye flour, some molasses for sweetness and pumpkin seeds, currants and cracked coriander seed make for an interesting flavor profile – $5/loaf

and pastry this week…

Pain aux Raisin – Made with the same laminated dough as croissants; the dough is rolled out, spread with pastry cream and sprinkled with a mix of golden raisins and dried cranberries soaked in sugar syrup,and rolled up and sliced before baking. – 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: Authoritarian Followers

Trump-26 by TaylorHerring

We all either already knew or have been learning about authoritarian leaders, and we pretty much get it: they are only okay when they are in complete charge of everyone else. But why anyone would believe, follow, support, or agree with these people is a total mystery to many of us. So who are these people who line up for Tweetster rallies, send him money, threaten anyone who doesn’t back him, get all their “facts” from Fox News and talk radio, and apparently sin as much as anyone else but don’t let themselves enjoy it or admit it to anyone.

It turns out that the personality of the authoritarian leader is quite different from that of the followers. While the authoritarian leader is driven by a sense of “I’m only okay when I have absolute control,” social psychologist Bob Altermeyer studied the followers of such people for many years and found they share several traits and beliefs:

So for the followers there seems to be a lot here about “I’m only okay when someone very strong is in complete control,” but to a lot of us that sounds like something “devoutly to be eschewed,” as one old sailor once said about being in a hurricane in a sailboat.

The dynamic between the authoritarian leader and his (usually) followers is that he gives them both license and approval for physical aggression against those who are perceived as inferior and nonconforming in various ways. They share an unspoken ethos that the most nonconforming deserve the worst punishments, the most powerful deserve the most deference, and apparently, that delivering punishment to those the leader pegs as “enemies” is irresistible. (picture the mob-mind at the Capitol on Jan 6…) 

Curiously, these followers also share a narrow conventionalism about how people should behave, even in their private lives. In that sense, many are religious fundamentalists, with limited abilities to discern or perhaps even imagine shades of gray. In this sense they seem deeply imprisoned by the absolutism of their beliefs.

We close tonight with a few interesting related research findings for the US:

— Authoritarian voters have generally preferred Republican leaders;

— Tweetster supporters are substantially more likely than other Republicans to score highly on authoritarian aggression and group-based dominance; and

–Authoritarianism is different from Conservatism because authoritarianism reflects aversion to differences across space (i.e. diversity of people and beliefs at a given moment) while conservatism reflects aversion to changes over time.“

We all see and feel these deep divisions in our country about very basic values of what is true or not true, good or bad, desirable or undesirable, fair or unfair, right or wrong, and find it puzzling that there could be such broad disagreement about such fundamental perceptions. 

On reflection it seems extremely unlikely that these nation-threatening divisions just happened by themselves. It seems more likely that a lot of deliberate effort has gone into fostering and promulgating them across our country for many years toward our downfall and their ascension. Creepy stuff…!

(We started this piece by looking at this item in Wikipedia, and found it so interesting it’s as far as we got…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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