lummi island wine tasting oct 4-5, ’24
Hours, October 4-5, ’24
Friday 4-6 pm Saturday 3-5 pm
Friday Bread This Week
Kamut Levain – Kamut, also known as khorasan wheat, is an ancient grain that has more protein than conventional wheat. Some people who can’t tolerate wheat find kamut to be more digestible. The bread is made with a levain that is fermented overnight before being mixed with with bread flour and fresh milled whole kamut flour. It has a nutty, rich flavor and makes a golden color loaf. A great all around bread – $5/loaf – $5/loaf
Egg Bread w/ apples & honey – A delicious enriched bread full of eggs, honey, milk, butter, and dried apples, braided into a round loaf ready to slice for breakfast toast or…yum…as French toast!– $5/loaf
Chocolate Babka Rolls – A sweet pastry dough full of eggs, butter and sugar, rolled and spread with a chocolate filling, rolled up and cut into individual rolls that are placed in baking forms for baking and then brushed with sugar syrup after baking. (some people hide these to keep them all to themselves. Be sure and get your order in early as quantities are limited – 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:
McManis Chardonnay ’22 CA $14
Lush and inviting with pure fruit flavors, voluptuous palate of peach, apricot, vibrant citrus, and melon and an easy, creamy texture with hints of vanilla and a smooth, lingering finish.
Townshend Cellars T3 Red Washington $18
Bordeaux style blend of cab, merlot and cab franc; fruit forward with hints of black currant and vanilla, with layers of complexity and depth through extensive oak aging in French and American barrels.
Ciffre St. Chinian ’20 France $20
60% grenache, 40% syrah; aromas and flavors of plum, cherry, raspberry jam and cassis coat the palate with hints of clove and cinnamon that add intensity and length.
Saint Chinian
courtesy languedoc-visit.com
The Saint Chinian wine region has a lengthy history of viticulture and winemaking that dates back to 794 AD, when Benedictine monks first planted vines around the abbey. The wines made an impression on aristocrats, royals, and wine connoisseurs as early as the 14th century. In the 1300s, as in many other locations, conflict erupted between monks and vintners because the monasteries refused to share their production with locals. The war lasted 200 years and was eventually won by quality-conscious vintners. The region was also the victim of the phylloxera infestation during the 19th century. The wine growers overcame this epidemic and maintained the regional reputation for producing wines of consistent quality.
This 3300 hectares appellation is part of the Languedoc region north of Bezier. It is the fourth most productive Languedoc appellation, and has long benefited from the geological and climatic diversities which maintain the predictable character of grapes grown in its schist soils with sand/loam soil over deep clay. These soils consistently retain water, providing consistent growing conditions even in drier periods. Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignan, and Cinsault are the traditional red grapes of the region, while whites are mostly made from Grenache blanc, Marsanne, and Roussanne–all long-time personal favorites!
Economics of the Heart: Five Weeks and Counting….
JD, Sorcerer’s Apprentice
This week’s campaign highlight has been the VP candidates’ debate on Tuesday. Some 40 million people watched it. From a broad perspective, it was generally regarded as cordial and low-key. At the same time, there were statements that made our ears perk up and our BS alarms to go off.
A few months ago the news broke that the Tweetster had hosted a fund-raising dinner at Mar a Lago for oil executives. He promised to fast-track drilling permits, eliminate tailpipe emission standards, unfreeze permitting for liquefied natural gas terminals, and in general weaken emission standards and reduce climate change restrictions on oil and gas production. In return he wanted a $1 billion donation to his campaign, mere pocket change to these global companies. The result was the recent and now-notorious chopped-steak dinner for oil executives at Mar-a-Lago during which the Deal was explored; he would get his $1 billion bribe and they would gain $$110 billion in perks. The deal has attracted a great deal of attention from Congress and the press.
On at least two occasions during Tuesday’s debate, Vance digressed from answering the moderator’s question and interjected long, unfounded claims that the solution to the nonexistent “economic problems” caused by the best American economy since Dubya’s Wall Street Crash of 2008 is to stimulate fossil fuel production by reducing emission standards and increasing Big Energy profits.
It is particularly ironic that these straight-faced lies were spoken within hours of one of the worst climate-change induced disasters in our nation’s history from Hurricane Helene’s rampage from Florida through Southern Appalachia. Those same executives and their like-minded predecessors have known these disasters were coming for over fifty years, and yet spent billions in PR to convince a gullible public that climate change was a hoax. Tell that to the victims in the Southeast and all around the planet for these fifty years whose lands can become deserts in one season and underwater in the next.
Analysis of Tuesday’s “debate” also yielded, in response to the moderator’s correction, Vance’s somewhat head-slapping complaint/admission “I thought there was to be no fact-checking!” That statement was pretty much an admission that he felt completely entitled to a) make up any story he wanted as he went along, and b) claim it was true. These stories included his refusal to admit that the Tweetster had lost the 2020 election, that the Biden administration had rebuilt, realigned, and repaired the national economy, organized a concerted and effective effort to overcome the Covid pandemic, strengthened our global alliances, led an international coalition to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty against Putin’s invasion, and is rebuilding our national infrastructure.
And even now our news broadcasts are filled 24/7 with right-wing media liars brain-washing the uneducated, the gullible, the herdable, the leader-needers, and the self-righteous. Trumpism is the Brave New World, the 1984, the Hitler, the Mussolini, the Stalin, the Putin, the Nazi, and the guys in suits who look at any impoverished, hopeless place and think. as they have since the industrial revolution, of ways to make even more money from their misery.
Everything that matters is at stake in this coming election. Your vote matters!
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