lummi island wine tasting oct 11-12 ’24
Hours, October 11-12, ’24
Friday 4-6 pm Saturday 3-5 pm
voting sign refracted through a beer..!
Friday Bread This Week
French Country Bread – A levain bread made with bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat and and a bit of toasted wheat germ in a sourdough culture with a long cool overnight ferment for a rustic loaf that you would find in the countryside. – $5/loaf
Multi Grain English Muffin Loaf – English muffin dough made into a loaf, with nice mix of bread flour, spelt, whole wheat and oatmeal for a lot of flavor, plus buttermilk and butter and get a nice light, tender crumb. Delicious for toast or sandwiches! – $5/loaf
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls – A rich sweet roll dough that is full of eggs, butter, sugar and pumpkin. The dough is rolled out, sprinkled with all the fall spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and allspice. Then rolled up and sliced into rolls for baking. And boy are they delicious!! – 2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday the Bakery emails the week’s bread offering to the mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday (and not already claimed) will be available for pickup at the wine shop Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Contact us at least two weeks before your visit to get on the bread list .
This week’s Wine Tasting:
Chapoutier Belleruche Blanc ’21 France $14
Delicious blend of grenache blanc and roussanne; fragrant and perfumed with a light, grilled-lemon note over ripe melon,with a lingering palate of rich white peach.
Natura Carmenere ’22 Chile $14
Attractive bouquet with cherry aromas and hints of chocolate and spice. Big volume taste on the palate with soft round tannins and a firm, well-balanced structure. Good balance between fruit and oak with a long, juicy finish. 100% organically grown grapes.
Decoy Red ’21 California
60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, with splashes of Zinfandel, Syrah, and Cab; aromas of blackberry, dark plum, baking spice and savory herbs; fresh, rich, and savory on the palate with rich,
silky tannins and bright acidity that carries the flavors to a long, lush finish.
Carmenere: Lost and Found <– (click to read more)
In the mid-1800’s, the tiny phylloxera bug almost wiped all of France’s Bordeaux varietals (including Malbec, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Carménère (which had been used mainly for the persistent crimson color it added to any other red wines). It was not replanted in France, and for over a century it was thought extinct.
However, a few decades before the epidemic, several strains of Carménère had been carried to Chile around 1850 and planted among Merlot and Cabernet starts and and forgotten as a distinct varietal.
But quite recently (1991) the French ampelographer Claude Vallat discovered that a supposed clone of Merlot produced in Chile was definitely not Merlot at all. Two years later, his student Jean Michel Boursiquot concluded that the random vine in question was Carménère, the French varietal long considered extinct, and which was thriving in Chile! Since then Chileans winemakers have been producing it very successfully, winning prizes in Asia, Australia, and the United States.
We have become big fans of the varietal, and it is always exciting to find another one. This week we are pouring one from Natura, a Chilean winery that specializes in carefully managed natural, organic vineyards, and is, btw, a subsidiary of the Banfi collection of wineries which started in Tuscany decades ago and has branched world-wide.
It’s a great story that will make you smile every time you taste one!
Economics of the Heart: Two Kinds of “Con” Locker
outcome for Everyone Else who mishandles highly classified documents
A substantial percentage of Americans have worked for the United States government in some capacity at some time in their lives. Many have spent full careers in the military, in civil service, in elected positions, and/or as consultants, suppliers, contractors, analysts, advisors, and more. Most of them, including the Tweetster, took an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Among those many tens of millions of people, some substantial subset at some point has had to handle, store, protect and/or maintain custody of sensitive or classified materials. In preparation for those responsibilities they had to learn very specific protocols for safeguarding those materials, vow to carry them out, and acknowledge the penalties of failing to do so.
Higher levels of classification imply higher levels of consequence from compromise. A chain of custody is maintained to track each copy of each document, with serious legal consequences for compromise. Almost everybody who has handled such materials learns this and takes their responsibility seriously, not just because of potential penalties, but because our national security and the lives and welfare of our fellow citizens are at stake. In that sense it is a measure of duty, honor, and loyalty, and the Tweetster fails on every count.
The Lie Count: The Washington Post fact-checked everything he said publicly while in office and documented 30,573 Outright Lies which grew over time from 6 claims/day in 2017 to 39 claims/day in 2020.
The Mueller Report: We all remember how the Tweetster’s AG William Barr shut down the investigation without substantive analysis, letting the Tweetster off the hook completely. (except for Kamala’s persistent questions of Barr…)
The Ukraine Extortion: In July of 2017, the Tweetster made his infamous extortion attempt against Ukraine by withholding $250 million in arms aid unless and until Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced an investigation of President Biden and his son Hunter. This triggered a set of investigations that led to Congressional hearings and the Tweetster’s first impeachment trial in the House.
Impeachment #1: The impeachment trial was precipitated by the Ukraine extortion investigation in Congress, and was heavily manipulated by Republican Senate Majority leader McConnell for an acquittal.
There is, of course, a mountain of history we could quote to demonstrate that the Tweetster Never follows the Law, Never tells the Truth, and is incapable of feeling compassion for another human being. He does not care about our country, or its people, or our planet.
What we also now know is that he is a Traitor to our country, as displayed in all the of the above recent history. He sees the Presidency as a Crown, not a responsibility. He sees political power mainly for the leverage it gives him to acquire personal wealth and power. He has been completely willing to sell out our country, his family, friends, employees, lenders, creditors…Anyone…for more wealth or public adulation. Being the center of attention is the only Nourishment he can ingest, and like the Hungry Ghost, his throat is too tiny to take any of it in.
Anyone else would already be locked up for a very long time for stealing our national secrets, failing to secure them against our adversaries, and very likely selling them to our enemies (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia).
Btw, since he is losing his mind faster and faster, should again power, he is unlikely to last longer than a few months in office before his VP would take over briefly until Heritage puts in who they really want to run the post-democracy dictatorship they have designed to destroy all life on Earth just to be the last creature standing…a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was one.
Btw… a “con locker” is A) a lockable safe where confidential materials are stored; and B) a lockable prison cell where people who steal/sell/share confidential materials are stored…
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