{"id":14962,"date":"2026-04-02T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/?p=14962"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:19:09","slug":"lummi-island-wine-tasting-april-3-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisanwineclub.com\/index\/lummi-island-wine-tasting-april-3-26\/","title":{"rendered":"lummi island wine tasting April 3, ’26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Friday <\/strong>4-6 pm <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

painting by Anne Gibert<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friday Bread This Week<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Colomba di Pasqua\u00a0 (aka \u2018Easter Dove\u2019)<\/em><\/strong>: A traditional Italian Easter cake similar to Christmas panettone<\/em>. Made with a sweet Italian levain<\/em>,\u00a0 known as a lievito madre,<\/em> kept at a warm temperature for a sweet, cake-like dough rather than a sour one. Contains plenty of eggs, sugar and butter plus fresh and candied orange peel, topped with a crunchy almond\/hazelnut glaze and pearl sugar before baking in a dove-shaped baking form as labor of love Easter dove! \u00a0<\/em> \u2013 $10\/loaf<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Italian Breakfast Bread<\/strong> – A delicious sweet bread. Made with bread flour eggs, yogurt, a little sugar and vanilla as well as dried cranberries golden raisins and candied lemon peel. Perfect for breakfast as toast or even better for french toast on Easter morning – $5\/loaf<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hot Cross Buns –<\/strong> An enriched dough made with plenty of butter, sugar and eggs. Full of spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. And plenty of currants, and candied lemon and orange peel. Topped with a flavorful paste and glazed these are a delicious treat to celebrate spring. 2\/$5<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week’s wine tasting\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Willamette Valley Vineyards Oregon Blossom Sparkling Rose\u00a0 \u00a0 Oregon\u00a0 $18\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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88% Pinot Noir, 12% Muscat from Willamette Valley grapes, this slightly sweet sparkler bursts with notes of cherry, strawberry and melon; best with ham and cheese croissants, watermelon\/ feta salad, goat cheese crostini, or …??<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tenuta Sant\u2019Antonio Monti Garbi Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore \u201921\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Italy\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $21<\/strong><\/span>
\nSpicy and intense, with hints of crushed ash and smoky black cherries; silky texture and pure, with notes of sour wild berries and salty minerality; long, energetic, spicy finish of blackcurrant & mocha,<\/span><\/p>\n

Torbreck Woodcutters Shiraz \u201921 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Australia\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $26<\/strong><\/span>
\nSucculent, rich aromas of dark berries and black plum with notes of sandalwood, rosemary and thyme;<\/span>
\nsoft tannins and structured, voluptuous mouthfeel adds the poise and piquancy expected from this winery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Economics of the Heart: The War on Critical Thinking, pt 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The section below was originally posted in September ’23 to support the case that the glue that held Maga together was at root a methodical War on Critical Thinking<\/em>— you know, that actual measurable thing that we go to college to learn…? That war swung into action in the late 80’s as soon as Reagan’s FTC removed the long-standing news broadcast rule requiring fair representation of all points of view on any story.<\/span><\/p>\n

That single change<\/em> opened the door for a 24\/7 barrage of angry, preachy, self-righteous talk show hosts aiming to make conservative white Christians believe that Democrats were lying, conniving sinners that were trying to take their stuff. The arguments were in all cases complete fabrications and deliberate ad hominem<\/em> lies to make people angry, keep top Democrats on the defensive, and build a completely fictitious world where top Democrats secretly worshiped Satan and ate babies. (I’m not making this up!)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As promised in the Project 2025 manifesto made public in early 2025, Tweetster 2.0 is following a carefully drawn plan to replace Constitutional government in the U.S. with a white, Christian, male-dominated autocracy with no further need for elections, voting, or Congress. This time around from Day One federal laws, rules, chains of authority, security— everything– were to be replaced with an autocratic structure. Workers would have neither contractual rights nor protections; audit trails would disappear; Congressional Democrats would be ignored; and Heritage Foundation would determine and control a Cabinet of people chosen because<\/em> they were neither capable of nor interested in Critical Thinking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Think about it…(you know, if you can!)…<\/em>is there even a single Cabinet member in this administration that is doing the sworn duties of their position? These people are, across the board, all people who think only in black and white, and are proud of it. All of this is richly and gut-wrenchingly illustrated in the hour by hour, day by day insanity of dumping our traditional allies, starting a shooting war in the Middle East with no clear strategic purpose, screwing up the entire global economy and our place in it. And we haven’t even mentioned ICE.<\/span><\/p>\n

So…it is worth taking a look at what critical thinking is<\/em> while wondering about where we would be today if our government were actually willing and able to apply it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Below is broader discussion of the developmental stages of critical thinking from our Sept 29\/’23 post<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Every creature has some form of sensory discrimination that allows it to survive. We are gifted with a unique nervous system that lets us tell this<\/em> from that<\/em>, one<\/em> from two<\/em>, gray<\/em> from black, mine <\/em>from yours, and right <\/em>from wrong.<\/em> Our ability to think<\/em>, especially to think critically<\/em>, depends entirely on our ability to observe and make meaning from differences in quantities and qualities of the world around us, and to communicate about them with each other through language.<\/span><\/p>\n

The abilities to differentiate <\/em>and reason<\/em> are the primary characteristic of critical thinking.<\/em> We all have the sensory ability to discriminate tastes (salty, sweet, sour), feelings (pleasant, unpleasant), and numbers (more, less), and the cognitive ability to tell truth from lies and fact from fiction. We can also form ideas, execute plans, and evaluate and learn from the results. These abilities constitute what is generally known as \u201ccritical thinking,\u201d and is the whole point of maturation in general and education in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most detailed model for the development of intellectual maturity was put forth by William Perry<\/a> from data gathered back around 1960. Perry\u2019s research found that in general, a student\u2019s college experience could be viewed as \u201can intellectual Pilgrim\u2019s Progress\u201d in which the student\u2019s way of thinking evolved through four \u201cstages\u201d from a world of binary choices into a world of complex contexts with which to differentiate ever more nuanced distinctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perry observed that beginning college students generally began at Level 1, Duality, <\/em>a world of opposites: (right\/wrong, good\/bad). With study and reflection, that view gradually broadened over a couple of years to Multiplicity, <\/em>which opened a space to hang out with the curious uncertainty of \u201cdon\u2019t know for sure.\u201d<\/em> Over time these broaden to Mode 3, a relativistic layer of \u201cit depends.\u201d <\/em>The evolution to Level 4, as it turns out, is then a major developmental step in critical thinking with \u201ca fundamental transformation of one\u2019s perspective from a vision of the world as essentially dualistic, to a world as essentially relativistic and context-bound with relatively few right\/wrong exceptions.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Big Takeaway here is that human beings have been shown to hang out at Levels 1-2 until they learn otherwise from increasing age, education, and\/or experience. Which brings us to Maga Republicans. Who are they? According to<\/span> a study from UW,<\/a> they have the following characteristics, and they are a mortal threat to our democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n