{"id":13743,"date":"2024-11-21T19:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2024-11-21T19:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T03:06:59","slug":"lummi-island-wine-tasting-nov-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/lummi-island-wine-tasting-nov-22-23\/","title":{"rendered":"lummi island wine tasting  nov 22-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Wine Tasting hours through December<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1464102556  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12555 alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:250\/h:300\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/norway-maple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:250\/h:300\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/norway-maple.jpg 250w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:125\/h:150\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/norway-maple.jpg 125w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:490\/h:587\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/norway-maple.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, NOV 22 \u00a0 \u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0 tasting &amp; bread pickup<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, NOV 29\u00a0 CLOSED<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, DEC 6\u00a0\u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bread pickup only<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, Dec 13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0 tasting &amp; bread pickup<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Friday, Dec 20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0 tasting &amp; bread pickup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Friday Bread This Week<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=177676519  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13524 alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:256\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bread-071922-e1726771012629.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:256\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bread-071922-e1726771012629.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:873\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bread-071922-e1726771012629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:128\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bread-071922-e1726771012629.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:655\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bread-071922-e1726771012629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:1191\/h:1015\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bread-071922-e1726771012629.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Rosemary Olive Oil &#8211; <\/strong>made with bread flour and freshly milled white whole wheat for additional flavor and texture. Fresh rosemary from the garden and olive oil make for a nice tender crumb and crisp crust.\u00a0<em> &#8211; $5\/loaf<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flax Seed Currant Ciabatta <\/strong>\u2013 Made with an overnight poolish that ferments some of the flour and water before being mixed with bread flour, whole wheat, and rye flours,\u00a0 flax seeds, and dried currants. A lot of water makes for a very slack dough that is just cut into pieces, for a really flavorful artisan loaf <em>\u2013 $5\/piece<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and pastry this week&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<strong>Bear Claws! \u2013<\/strong> Made with a danish pastry dough rich in cream, eggs, sugar and butter. The dough is rolled out and spread with a filing made with almond paste, powdered sugar, egg whites and just a bit of cinnamon to round out the flavor. Then, because bears love honey, topped with a honey glaze after baking.\u00a0 \u2013<em>2\/$5\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday the Bakery emails the week\u2019s 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 \u2013 5:30 pm.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/contact-us\/\">Contact us<\/a> at least two weeks before your visit to get on the bread list .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This week&#8217;s Wine Tasting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schmitt Pinot Blanc &#8217;17 Alsace $19<br \/>\n<\/strong>Creamy-smooth nose of subdued pear notes adds an earthy element on the palate and adds an earthy element toward a dry, smooth finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humble Roots Shiraz &#8211; Viognier &#8217;20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Australia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $18<\/strong><br \/>\nDelightful blend of 98% Shiraz and 2% Viognier;\u00a0 shows layers of fleshy plum, oak, and blackberry with earthy hints of incense, ash, cocoa, black currant, and pepper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jacob Williams Barbera\u00a0 \u201922\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Washington\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $34<\/strong><br \/>\nMedium body; juicy red fruit up front opens to a savory and herbal mid-palate and earthy finish. Enjoyable now, but sure to get even better as it matures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Economics of the Heart: Fear is the Mind-killer<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img data-opt-id=1336815969  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/charliewarzel_Medieval_crusaders_with_images_of_Donald_Trump_on_f0e77057-c931-4982-9c4c-65309c3084e4.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687 alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20300%22%20width%3D%22300%22%20height%3D%22300%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22300%22%20height%3D%22300%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" old-srcset=\"https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/charliewarzel_Medieval_crusaders_with_images_of_Donald_Trump_on_f0e77057-c931-4982-9c4c-65309c3084e4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/charliewarzel_Medieval_crusaders_with_images_of_Donald_Trump_on_f0e77057-c931-4982-9c4c-65309c3084e4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/charliewarzel_Medieval_crusaders_with_images_of_Donald_Trump_on_f0e77057-c931-4982-9c4c-65309c3084e4.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mlpxrtka7dnn.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:768\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/charliewarzel_Medieval_crusaders_with_images_of_Donald_Trump_on_f0e77057-c931-4982-9c4c-65309c3084e4.jpg 768w\" \/>For our entire lives we old-timers have enjoyed broad confidence that our nation&#8217;s Constitution effectively constrained our government institutions from partisan over-reach, regardless of party control. Over the past 30 years that confidence has been substantially eroded by the impacts of right-wing fake-news media on our government institutions, including the Executive, Congress, and the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today we face not only <em>external<\/em> enemies, but also a broad array of <em>internal<\/em> enemies which have been spreading nonstop <em>mis- and dis-information<\/em> across the media spectrum since 1987, when Reagan&#8217;s FCC abolished the guiding Broadcast<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fairness_doctrine\"><strong> Fairness Doctrine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span> Introduced in 1949, it required the holders of <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Broadcast license\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broadcast_license\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">broadcast licenses<\/span><\/a> to 1) <em>devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Public interest\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_interest\">public interest<\/a>,<\/span><\/em> AND <em>2) to air contrasting views regarding those matters.<\/em> The repeal of the Fairness doctrine opened the floodgates for 24\/7 bombardment of anger-mongering political fictions across the broadcast and social media universe. Many if not all of\u00a0 these platforms are sponsored and maintained by very well-funded domestic and foreign enemies <em>committed\u00a0 to our nation&#8217;s destruction.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The most familiar, of course, is Fox News, which has been playing the same shtick for decades now. On any given morning every pundit\/host begins with the same (word for word) &#8220;lie line of the day&#8221; about whomever is the day&#8217;s target. Some people get <em>all<\/em> their &#8220;news&#8221; from these guys. As discussed in a<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZLGX1eWo3VA\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> recent post<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a> these decades of misinformation have led much of today&#8217;s electorate to believe unquestioningly in a completely fictitious world where they are being victimized by immigrants, college graduates, vaccinations, &#8220;wokeness,&#8221; children&#8217;s books, other religions, and other idiocy. They have heard it all so often they take it for granted as true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>The last 8 years of 24\/7 Tweetster Chaos is the direct result of that &#8217;87 FCC decision to legalize the broadcast of outright lies for political purposes<\/em>. That one political decision in 1987 has brought us here, today, to the brink of both national and global destruction from a number of directions. The T&#8217;s recent nominations of so many glaringly unqualified candidates to head our most important government positions has led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\/watch\/professor-snyder-trump-s-picks-suggest-attempt-to-make-government-dysfunctional-224642117967\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Authoritarianism scholar Timothy Snyder<\/span><\/a> to believe those selections are to not to <em>run<\/em> those important agencies, but to <em>cripple<\/em> them and give the Administration dictatorial control of the entire government with no oversight from Congress or the Courts&#8230;a truly <em>terrifying <\/em>prospect<em>. <\/em>Some others suggest they are deliberately outrageous to test the loyalty of Republican lawmakers to their lawless leader. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Congress we are seeing <em>some<\/em> resistance to <em>some<\/em> nominations and what we hope is a growing sense of self-preservation of members to protect their Constitutional turf; but Congressional courage against the T has been hard to find. That is scary because it may be our only possible firewall against the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 plan for dismantling the Constitution altogether. We even saw a brief clip of <em>everyone&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>least favorite Senator (Josh Hawley) criticizing the nomination list. One would think that all House and Senate members would want to guard their domains of responsibility from the Project 2025 planned overthrow of democracy. On the other hand, we have\u00a0 seen extraordinary inability of most of them to stand up to him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scary times. For now have each other, our own values and commitments, our State Representatives and Senators, and State Governments and Constitutions against a highly stacked deck.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If the Tweetster gets his dictatorship, of course, there will be no further need for a Congress, a Senate, or a Supreme Court.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many years ago a former student, friend, and world-class mountain climber based one of his &#8220;motivational talks&#8221; on a tense experience climbing frozen waterfalls somewhere in Alberta. Finding the ice was not in great shape, he kept repeating two words to himself to get across safely: <em>Concentration. Commitment.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There <em>are<\/em> 400 million of us. We&#8217;re in this together.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine Tasting hours through December \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, NOV 22 \u00a0 \u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0 tasting &amp; bread pickup \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, NOV 29\u00a0 CLOSED \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, DEC 6\u00a0\u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bread pickup only \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, Dec 13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0 tasting &amp; bread pickup \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Friday, Dec 20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4-6\u00a0\u00a0 tasting &amp; bread pickup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-tasting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13743"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13758,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions\/13758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}