lummi island wine tasting april 2 ’22
Covid Rules
We are again OPEN for wine tasting and sales this Saturday (4/2) from 4-6 pm. Anyone with boosted vaccine status is welcome!
Bread Returns!
Rosemary Olive Oil – Bread flour and freshly milled white whole wheat for additional flavor and texture. Fresh rosemary from the garden and olive oil to make for a nice tender crumb and a nice crisp crust. A great all around bread – $5/loaf
Multi Grain- Starts with a preferment of flour, water, salt & yeast. This allows a portion of the dough to begin the enzymatic activity and gluten development overnight in a cool environment. The next day it is mixed with bread, fresh milled whole wheat, rye, polenta cornmeal, flax, sunflower and sesame seeds for a nice bit of crunch and some extra flavor. – $5/loaf
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.
To get on the bread order list, click on the “Contact Us” link above and fill out the form. The week’s bread menu is sent to the list each Sunday, for ordering by Tuesday, for pickup on Friday. Simple, right..? If you will be visiting the island and would like to order bread for your visit, at least a week’s notice is recommended for pickup the following Friday.
Mailing List Issues: The Saga Continues!
Still trying to get our mailing app to work (failed again last week) and due to that uncertainty, we are taking the precaution of emailing the link directly to our mailing list as well as trying to activate the RSS feeder.
Best case scenario is that you will receive the actual blog in one email, and a link to it in another at about the same time. Any other outcome means something didn’t work as it should. There are a lot of balls in the air right now, so please bear with us, thanks!
This Week’s $5 Tasting
Lunetta Prosecco Italy $14
Pale straw color with greenish reflections, and fine perlage; fragrant, with enticing aromas of apple and peach; refreshing, dry, and harmonious, with crisp fruit flavors and a clean finish.
La Quercia Montepulciano ’17 Italy $13
100% organic Montepulciano D’abruzzo; opens with aromas of sour cherry with a hint of new leather; ripe fruity palate exhibits juicy blackberry, raspberry and a hint of anise; easy drinking with soft tannins.
Shatter Grenache Vin de Pays des Côtes Catalanes ’19 France $19
From Old Vines in Roussillon’s black schist soil; nose of dark fruit with a hint of espresso; velvety texture with black currant, spice and cured meat flavors with a touch of coffee; firm structure, supple tannins, excellent acidity and overall balance.
The Economics of the Heart: Entitlement and Cruelty
Everyone knows the beginning scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when primitive humanoid apes appear to have learned violence toward their own kind from the mysterious Monolith. The message of that scene, and to some degree the whole movie, seemed to be that this penchant for violence represented some kind of “progress” for the human race that ultimately led to space travel and communication with the Infinite. Really?…it’s some kind of Progress??
Throughout our history we humans have demonstrated a penchant for predatory tribal warfare over access to various desires and necessities: food, water, social status, mating, wealth, security, land, and political power, and the present is no different.
We Americans have certainly played our part in this dominance nonsense throughout our history. We have fought the English, Native Americans, Barbary Pirates, Mexico, Spain, Ourselves in the Civil War, Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and even invaded Grenada, for heaven’s sake! We have military bases all over the world. We are the only country ever to use atomic weapons, with horrific results. So we can recognize a certain cognitive dissonance in ourselves as we hold our breath and long for the fighting, wholesale murder, wanton destruction, and suffering to stop in Ukraine and across the world. We see the rise in tyrannical regimes in countries across the world, from Russia to China to Syria, Turkey, Iran, Venezuela, Hungary, Afghanistan, and more, and it feels deeply threatening.
Putin is bad enough with his unrelenting cruelty. But even more heart-breaking and gut-wrenching has been the mass desertion of the American Republican Party away from Constitutional values of inclusion and equal protection under law, and toward an authoritarian state with sharply limited individual freedoms for political opponents. Many Republican-controlled states have adopted actual punishments for those who do not subscribe wholeheartedly to their hypocritical, white, racist, selfish, entitled-by-birth, narcissistic, angry, and intolerant assertions of Entitlement to rule.
We keep glancing at our watches waiting for arrests, trials, and convictions for the hubris-fueled conspirators of the narrowly evaded attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. Will justice prevail? Will our collective democratic values re-emerge in the electorate before next fall’s elections? Or will this global trend toward tyranny prevail?
There is some good news, though…Wine helps in times like these!
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