lummi island wine tasting march 5 ’21

Posted at March 4, 2021

NOTE:  We have been closed for wine tastings since March 2020. We currently anticipate opening for restricted tastings this Spring for those have completed an approved Covid vaccination sequence. Stay tuned!

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Sorry, No Bread This Week!  😥

As those of you on the Bread List already know, our Baker is taking this week off.

Expect next week’s menu email sometime this weekend. In the meantime, enjoy one of the loaves you have in your freezer!

 

 

 

 

Wine of the Week: Flying Trout Grenache     Washington   $17

The wine is named for and by Ashley Trout, its youthful and daring first winemaker. It is made from 100% Columbia Valley Grenache. She opened the winery began in the mid-2000’s, when she was spending February until May making wine in Mendoza, Argentina and the rest of the year in Walla Walla.

In 2010 she merged her winery with Tero Estates in Oregon, which built new facilities in Walla Walla.  In 2016 Ms Trout moved on to other pursuits, and her brand stayed with Tero. Having recently lost its winemaker, it is in a two year process of closing down, and has bottled and is closing out its remaining barrels of FT Grenache.

We just brought in one case to try it out, and are trying hard to order a bunch more (stay tuned!) We admit a soft spot for grenache in general, and this is a pretty good one. For the unfamiliar, think of grenache as the feminine side of syrah; a little less forward, a little softer, a little more graceful, a little more enchanting.

 

Wine Emergencies…Who Ya Gonna Call?

While Covid continues to limit our movements and associations, we will continue to help you keep your wine shelves topped up. We know how it is…one minute your wine shelves are reassuringly stocked, and the very next day you reach for something and OMD, where did it all go?? It happens to all of us during these undifferentiated days and weeks of semi-quarantine.

But fear not, mis amigos! When a wine emergency strikes YOUR wine pantry, just click on the Order Wine link in the header above to browse our list of currently available wines with tasting notes and prices. When you have made your selections you can phone us with your order or email us using the Contact Us link above. We will confirm your order and make arrangements for pickup/delivery at your convenience. EZ-PZ!

ALSO, we are in the process of restocking some favorites and adding some new wines to our list, including several new Portuguese wines. Hope to get the list updated soon!

 

 

Solid Foundations

We have had new Leadership in our country for a modest six weeks, and already everything feels very different. And in a Deeply Relieving way.

Metaphorically it’s like when the interrogators finally stop firing the retina-burning light into your eyes screaming “VERE VER YOU ON ZE NIGHT OF..?”). Or when the water-boarders finally take the hose and washcloth off your face; or when the Dentist finally stops drilling and starts filling. We can all feel it…a deeply healing (but not yet trusted) sense of Quiet and Relief after five Very Long years of This.

These are good things, welcome things. But we have grown skeptical and wary of optimism. It is one thing to have intellectual disagreements with our neighbors over values and ideology. It is quite another to be forced to take up arms to defend ourselves against fellow countrymen who no longer believe in our founding principles. The fundamental glue that holds any country together is a mutual will among its citizens to support a common set of values and rules. Right now in our country millions of people are now expressing a strong preference for racial, economic, and social autocracy over plural democracy. This is the essence of Trumpism, and the longer it endures, the more divided we will become.

We are on the verge of a new Civil War in our country. Every day it becomes clear that the Republican Party has become the New American Fascist Party, committed to White Domination over people of color and their white egalitarian sympathizers, and an increasing concentration of wealth into the hands of hateful and paranoid billionaires. Almost without exception, Republican Senators and Representatives are now touting Trumpism over the old Republicanism. Already the majority of Congressional Republicans have closed ranks around the idea that the only way to save the country is by not increasing the minimum wage, not providing extended relief packages for Covid-unemployed, not combating climate change, and not negotiating with Democrats on anything of substance.

So things are kinda quiet right now, but conditions remain rife for more violence.

 

 

 

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