lummi island wine tasting oct 27 ’23
Hours this weekend
Open Friday 4-6
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.
Jordanov Vranec ’20 Macedonia $12
Aromas of ripe berries with notes of clove, nutmeg and cardamom. In the mouth it is full bodied with ripe dark fruit and hints of herbs with a noticeable dark chocolate edge on the well-structured finish. Enjoy with cheese, beef, lamb dishes or grilled sausage.
Longship Lady Wolf Malbec ’20 Washington $27
100 % malbec; unfolds with dark, enchanting notes of blackberry, grilled plum, and jammy raspberry with accents of orange peel, vanilla, and tobacco spice, finishing with balanced structure, plush texture, and a lengthy 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
Pain Normand – a bread that brings in the flavor of french Normandy region which is known for its apples. Made with some fresh milled whole wheat and rye flours as well as bread flour then mixed with apple cider as well as dried apples, for a delicious artisan bread! – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Pumpkin Spice Muffins– Topped with a streusel made with butter, brown sugar and pumpkin seeds and filled with a cream cheese filling. Yum! (some have called these ‘crack muffins’ because they are so addictive – 4/ $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.
Wine of the Week: Longship Lady Wolf Malbec ’20 Washington $27
Longship is a fairly new family-owned winery in Richland, in the heart of Washington wine country. Established in 2013, it has focused on producing big, hand-crafted, barrel-aged, red varietals like tempranillo, malbec, syrah, cabernet sauvignon, with at least 60% proportion aged for 18 months in new oak barrels.
The name “Longship,” and the adoption of the Viking Longship as the winery’s logo is a nod to the family’s Scandinavian heritage and the winery’s ongoing journey to produce some of the finest wines in the Pacific Northwest.
The Richland tasting room was added at the end of 2016, not just to feature their wines, but also, as is the case here at the Wine Gallery, to create a social space where friends can gather to relax in a convivial environment while sharing delicious handcrafted wine.
We took an immediate liking to the wine when we tasted it a couple of weeks ago, and it is a consistent crowd-pleaser!
Economics of the Heart: Intimations of Collapse
In “Collapsed Trestle Bridge on Northern Pacific Railroad, 1903 – Mullan, Idaho (38656465081)” by Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA is licensed under CC BY 2.0. see larger view
In my imagination this week’s news might play something like this out in the Maine boonies, when an old fahmah comes home from the monthly trip to town for shoppin’ and shares the latest news with his wife…
“Heard we got ouhselves a new House Speakah in Congress, guy named Mike Johnson. “
“You don’t say.”
“Shuah do. People say he’s one o’ them Magat people that’s been causin’ so much trouble past several yeahs, working behind the scenes to change the 2020 election results in a bunch of states. So the Magats love him, but the public has mostly nevuh heard of him.”
“So what did people say?”
“Well, the Magat folks like him cuz he passes as a reasonable guy, while behind the scenes he’s quietly attacking our entire domocratic system at the foundations. They get theah Magat Ninja Speakuh, perfectly disguised as the boyish bookkeepuh down the street, while setting up the steal of the 2024 election for theah billionaih donahs.”
“Hmm…I just got one question… what possible good can come from that?
“Beats me, dahlin’…I ain’t a Magat.”
****
The reality is that our new Speaker has a lot more in common with Leonard Leo than with bombastic bomb throwers like Gaetz and Jordan. Press reports everywhere are outlining the dangers he has already posed to our democracy. Working behind the scenes, Johnson was instrumental in setting up legal challenges to the 2020 election results in several states and even bringing a case to the Supreme Court.
How scary is that? Rudy Giuliani with an actual working brain? Roger Stone with a House seat? We shall see. But on the face of it, he is every bit as worthy as everyone else to have been indicted in the Georgia election-rigging trial.
Meanwhile, the better news in recent days is the mounting evidence that the Georgia election-tampering trial, the Florida secret documents case, and the New York fraud case are not going well for the Tweetster, and the first rats are beginning to jump off his sinking ship…or as in the metaphor of the old photo above, of a 1903 train wreck in Idaho.
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