Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter. So much for those young upstart Rays. Congrats to the Phillies…but I still think the Sox could have taken them. The Celtics raised banner 17, and got the new season off on the right track with an opening night win over Lebron and the Cavs. And who would have thought the Bradyless, and injury riddled Pats would be 5-2 at this point? OK…with my obligatory sports references out of the way let’s talk about tastings and new stuff here at Cork’s.
Our friend Yannie from Opa-Opa Brewery in Southampton, MA will be here tonight (Thursday) from 4:30-7:30. He will sample you on their IPA, Light, and Red Rock Ale. We will have special pricing tonight only for the tasting. All 6-packs will be $6.99 and 12-packs only $12.99. With beer prices going up all the time this is a great chance to buy a delicious microbrew and help support the local guys. On a side note Yannie has threatened to dress up as that god awful singer Yanni and sing during tastings if you don’t support his beers so I’m begging you to at least pick up a 6 pack and save us from that horror.
I’ve scoured the store looking for interesting wines to try for our Halloween wine tasting this Friday night from 4-7 PM. Kind of slim pickings, so you’ll have to use your imagination on a couple of them. We will start with the newly packaged Mionetto Brut Prosecco. It is now in a classic Champagne style bottle with a bright orange label (think Clicquot). Next we have Smoking Loon Chardonnay…again an orange label of a duck smoking a cigar…hey I said some were a stretch so stay with me they get better. Temptation Zinfandel is next from Alexander Valley Vineyards. Same orange label but at least this 1 has a skeleton and a princess on it! Next up is Jester Cabernet from Australia. Last but not least is a dark, brooding blend of Bonarda and Malbec from Argentina called Alma Negra. It comes in a black…very thick, heavy bottle…with a slight glimpse of a phantom mask on it. This wine alone is worth the trip but to make it more fun anybody in a Halloween costume for the tasting will receive a free gift!
We won’t have a chance to update the website until the weekend as my web mistress is out in Chicago visiting Oprah. So we will recycle last weeks mystery discount and put it in the newsletter as well… Since there really is “only 1 October” and we’re rapidly running out of the month and most of our fall beers as well, let’s clean them out and make it our mystery discount this week. Just ask the cashier where the heck is Dane Cook this year???... or shout “THERE’S ONLY 1 OKTOBER!!” to receive 10% off any fall beer left in the building. As an added bonus take an additional 5 % off, for a total of 15% off if you can name Dane’s lame replacement on those fall classic commercials.
Just a quick reminder for those who need to drink on, or after Election Day. We still have a few 12 packs of Magic Hat Participation left in the house. Maker’s Mark also has a cool red, white, and blue “Rock the Vote” package of their famous Kentucky whiskey. Oh yea…1 last thing. Don’t forget our 4th Annual Grand Holiday Wine Tasting which is next Friday night from 4:30 to 7:30. We have the lineup almost set and we’re looking at about 15 tables and 90 or so wines. We will even have a few liquors in the mix for the 1st time as well. So save the date and we will get more info on the website (corksfinewine.com) soon. I hope you all have a great Halloween weekend.
Robert
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Two beer tastings this week...
Well the Sox sure made it interesting; hopefully most of you stayed awake for that memorable game 5 comeback. But alas the Rays were just a little younger, healthier, and I hate to admit it…better. It was nice to see the Pats smoke Denver Monday night to help us turn the page. And with the Celts raising banner # 17 and opening up next week that should help as well. As promised we will be having an end of season sale on the Redsox wines. We will close them out at $10.99 or 3 for $30. These make great gifts for the holidays so hurry in before they are all gone.
We have a new rep from Newport Storm out of RI making his tasting debut tonight. He’s so new I don’t even know his name yet, but I am a longtime fan of this excellent local brewery. We will sample their flagship Hurricane Amber Ale, RI Blueberry Ale, and Cyclone Series “Isabel”. We also have the last of their outstanding Regenschauer Oktoberfest and a sneak peek at their Winter Ale to taste as well. So come join us tonight (Thursday) from 4:30 to 7:30 and help support our local breweries!
I’m thinking no wine tasting this week as I don’t have anybody lined up, and we’ll take a break and get the store ready for the big tasting on November 7th. I am leaning towards doing a Halloween themed tasting next week building up to our 4th Annual Grand Holiday Wine Tasting. I’m just now piecing the lineup together but it will be scaled back a bit like the last big beer tasting. We will still have plenty of new and interesting wines as well as some of your favorites to try. I will be updating the website (corksfinewine.com) with details as the event draws closer.
We will have a bonus Halloween beer tasting this Saturday from 4 to 6 PM. Vinny promises me a “Bud Girl” this time…hmmmm…Vinny in drag for a Halloween party? Either way he/she will have Redhook Harvest Ale, Magic Hat Jinx, Jack’s Pumpkin Spice Ale, and Beck’s Oktoberfest for you to sample. We will also have a special prize for anybody who comes in a costume for the tasting. We are rapidly running out of our huge selection of Oktoberfest/Pumpkin/Autumn beers, so this weekend would be a great time to stock up before the winter brews arrive.
Oh yea, Ted wanted me to remind you of the closeout specials we have on wine. As we try to bring in new and different wines for the holiday tasting we have to make room and closeout some of the slower selling wines. If you’re not familiar with our closeouts they are on a round rack up front, and 1 side of our big 4-way display up front. They have colored stickers on the top of the bottles. These closeouts specials are so good Ted won’t even let me disclose them in the e-mail. But just ask me, Ted, or any of the cashiers and you will be pleasantly surprised at the incredible clearance prices on these wines.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
Robert
We have a new rep from Newport Storm out of RI making his tasting debut tonight. He’s so new I don’t even know his name yet, but I am a longtime fan of this excellent local brewery. We will sample their flagship Hurricane Amber Ale, RI Blueberry Ale, and Cyclone Series “Isabel”. We also have the last of their outstanding Regenschauer Oktoberfest and a sneak peek at their Winter Ale to taste as well. So come join us tonight (Thursday) from 4:30 to 7:30 and help support our local breweries!
I’m thinking no wine tasting this week as I don’t have anybody lined up, and we’ll take a break and get the store ready for the big tasting on November 7th. I am leaning towards doing a Halloween themed tasting next week building up to our 4th Annual Grand Holiday Wine Tasting. I’m just now piecing the lineup together but it will be scaled back a bit like the last big beer tasting. We will still have plenty of new and interesting wines as well as some of your favorites to try. I will be updating the website (corksfinewine.com) with details as the event draws closer.
We will have a bonus Halloween beer tasting this Saturday from 4 to 6 PM. Vinny promises me a “Bud Girl” this time…hmmmm…Vinny in drag for a Halloween party? Either way he/she will have Redhook Harvest Ale, Magic Hat Jinx, Jack’s Pumpkin Spice Ale, and Beck’s Oktoberfest for you to sample. We will also have a special prize for anybody who comes in a costume for the tasting. We are rapidly running out of our huge selection of Oktoberfest/Pumpkin/Autumn beers, so this weekend would be a great time to stock up before the winter brews arrive.
Oh yea, Ted wanted me to remind you of the closeout specials we have on wine. As we try to bring in new and different wines for the holiday tasting we have to make room and closeout some of the slower selling wines. If you’re not familiar with our closeouts they are on a round rack up front, and 1 side of our big 4-way display up front. They have colored stickers on the top of the bottles. These closeouts specials are so good Ted won’t even let me disclose them in the e-mail. But just ask me, Ted, or any of the cashiers and you will be pleasantly surprised at the incredible clearance prices on these wines.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
Robert
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Hook and Ladder and Sake!!
Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter.
Hmmmm...the Sox are down 3 to 1…sounds familiar…I can recall writing a similar e-mail almost 1 year ago to the day. We get a win with Dice-K tonight…hope for the Beckett of old to emerge in game 6...and I’ll take my chances with Lester in game 7. If not, hey we’ve had a nice run and we tip our hats to the upstart Rays, and have a closeout sale on our Redsox wines!
This weeks beer tasting is with Vinnie (not really my cousin) or 1 of his dudes (since we haven’t seen any of his harem of Bud girls in ages) here tonight from 4:30 to 7:30. He will sample you on 2 beers from Hook & Ladder Brewing Co. Golden Ale and Backdraft Brown are both very good beers and a portion of all Hook & Ladder sales go towards our local firefighter’s burn foundation. To wet your appetite even more, I will twist Vinnie or the dudes arm to taste the Sierra Nevada 12th Release Harvest Wet Hop Ale that just came through the door. We have very limited supplies of this and I would suggest stopping in tonight to secure your 24 oz. bottle of this yummy brew.
Friday night we have a special Sake tasting with Marcus from Classic Wine Imports from 4 to 7 PM. He will start you off with Kuromatsu Hakushika Sake from Japan. Next we will try the Silver, Ruby, and Pearl Sake from Momokawa. Although these sound Japanese, these Sakes are actually produced in Oregon. He will finish with Choya Umeshu Plum Wine. Yea, that’s that funky looking bottle with the lil olive like plums floating around in it. Of course A Sake tasting wouldn’t be complete without some Sushi, so we’ll send Kat out to grab a sampling of Sushi to pair with our Sake lineup. Personally I’m not a Sake or Sushi fan, but I’m game to try it if you are!
We have a bunch of tastings lined up between now and the end of the year, including our 4th Annual Grand Holiday Wine Tasting on Friday November 7th. So be sure to check out our website (corksfinewine.com) to see what we have coming up. I hope you all have a great weekend, and we will see you soon.
Robert
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Post Oktoberfest Newsletter
Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter. I saw quite a few of you at the Oktoberfest at Mansfield Crossing on Tuesday. For those who did not attend I would strongly recommend this event next year. There was tons of great food, lot’s of Oktoberfest beers, and it all went to a great cause.
We will not have a beer tasting this week but have 4 scheduled for the rest of the month. Hook & Ladder, Newport Storm, Oktoberfest Beers, and Opa-Opa are all lined up for this month so be sure to check the website (corksfinewine.com) for times and dates.
As promised we have Tommy Bolini from Carolina Wines here Friday night from 4 to 7 PM to sample you on some great local wines. He will start with Nashoba Valley Baldwin Dry Apple Wine. This wine is made from 100 % local apples right here in Bolton, MA. From there we travel south to RI for 2 new wines from Sakonnet Vineyards. Cock of the Walk White and Red are blends of local grapes, and as the front label says “wine with attitude”. The White is a blend of Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer, and Pinot Gris while the Red is a mix of Lemberger, Cabernet Franc, and Chancellor. I’ve heard great things about these wines from a few customers who have been to the winery and at the risk of offending the PC police; the back label says the Cock of the Walk is a delicious mouth filling wine. Yikes I can only imagine what Tommy Bolini will have to say about these wines.
Staying somewhat local (and tossing Tommy another comedy softball) we head to upstate NY for Love My Goat Red Wine from Bully Hill Vineyards. Next we head to the North Fork of Long Island for Bedell Cellars Merlot. We end this Northeast tour back at Noshoba for their After Dinner Peach Wine. This should be 1 of the best Friday night tastings of the year and I recommend doing your best to attend the Tommy Bolini Show!
As we approach our 1st holiday season with liquor I want to mention we are starting to get our “Holiday Gift Packs” in. These are the same price as the normal bottles of liquor and just come with free stuff. We have Jameson, Frangelico, Carolan’s, and Faretti Biscotti Liqueur with lots more to come. And to help make the Presidential debates more tolerable we have the new “Rock the Vote” package from Maker’s Mark Whiskey. It comes in a cool bottle with red, white, and blue wax dripped over the top. As Tina Fay said on SNL, every time you hear the word “maverick” you do a shot of Maker’s Mark; not only will the debates be more enjoyable, it will also take your mind off of thousands of dollars you’re losing in your 401K everyday.
We have a bunch of oddball beers left over from the last beer tasting and the recent Oktoberfest, so we’ve gathered them on the back table and they can be yours for a buck a bottle. Wow…I made it this far and no sports references yet…amazing. Well let’s hope the Pats can make it 2-0 on their west coast swing, and don’t we all want a Redsox against Manny and the Dodgers World Series? The Celtics pre-season is officially under way, and the Bruins kick-off their season this week as well. If you throw in the Revolution that’s 5 major sports all going on at the same time!
I hope you all have a great weekend, and we’ll see you soon.
Robert
We will not have a beer tasting this week but have 4 scheduled for the rest of the month. Hook & Ladder, Newport Storm, Oktoberfest Beers, and Opa-Opa are all lined up for this month so be sure to check the website (corksfinewine.com) for times and dates.
As promised we have Tommy Bolini from Carolina Wines here Friday night from 4 to 7 PM to sample you on some great local wines. He will start with Nashoba Valley Baldwin Dry Apple Wine. This wine is made from 100 % local apples right here in Bolton, MA. From there we travel south to RI for 2 new wines from Sakonnet Vineyards. Cock of the Walk White and Red are blends of local grapes, and as the front label says “wine with attitude”. The White is a blend of Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer, and Pinot Gris while the Red is a mix of Lemberger, Cabernet Franc, and Chancellor. I’ve heard great things about these wines from a few customers who have been to the winery and at the risk of offending the PC police; the back label says the Cock of the Walk is a delicious mouth filling wine. Yikes I can only imagine what Tommy Bolini will have to say about these wines.
Staying somewhat local (and tossing Tommy another comedy softball) we head to upstate NY for Love My Goat Red Wine from Bully Hill Vineyards. Next we head to the North Fork of Long Island for Bedell Cellars Merlot. We end this Northeast tour back at Noshoba for their After Dinner Peach Wine. This should be 1 of the best Friday night tastings of the year and I recommend doing your best to attend the Tommy Bolini Show!
As we approach our 1st holiday season with liquor I want to mention we are starting to get our “Holiday Gift Packs” in. These are the same price as the normal bottles of liquor and just come with free stuff. We have Jameson, Frangelico, Carolan’s, and Faretti Biscotti Liqueur with lots more to come. And to help make the Presidential debates more tolerable we have the new “Rock the Vote” package from Maker’s Mark Whiskey. It comes in a cool bottle with red, white, and blue wax dripped over the top. As Tina Fay said on SNL, every time you hear the word “maverick” you do a shot of Maker’s Mark; not only will the debates be more enjoyable, it will also take your mind off of thousands of dollars you’re losing in your 401K everyday.
We have a bunch of oddball beers left over from the last beer tasting and the recent Oktoberfest, so we’ve gathered them on the back table and they can be yours for a buck a bottle. Wow…I made it this far and no sports references yet…amazing. Well let’s hope the Pats can make it 2-0 on their west coast swing, and don’t we all want a Redsox against Manny and the Dodgers World Series? The Celtics pre-season is officially under way, and the Bruins kick-off their season this week as well. If you throw in the Revolution that’s 5 major sports all going on at the same time!
I hope you all have a great weekend, and we’ll see you soon.
Robert
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wake up Red Sox Fans!!
Wake up Redsox fans! Hopefully most of you got to stay up and watch the Sox take the 1st step in their latest World Series quest. Don’t expect too much out of this newsletter as I’m working on short rest here, but let’s get to the basics and see where it goes from there.
My cousin Vinnie or 1 of his harem of Bud girls will be in tonight (Thursday) from 4:30 to 7:30 for the official launch of the brand new Budweiser American Ale. We did sample this at the last big beer tasting but were not allowed to sell it at that time. If you didn’t get a chance to taste it, it’s surprisingly really good. It kind of taste like a Bass Ale but at 2 bucks less per 6-pack, and is actually 1 of the few Budweiser products I like and get behind and recommend.
We will take this week off from the wine tastings but we will be back next Friday night with Tom (he ain’t heavy he’s my brother) from Carolina Wines. Don’t forget the Oktoberfest at Mansfield Crossing next Tuesday, October 7th from 5 to 7 PM. There will be 20 great local restaurants there and we will be pouring our best Oktoberfest, Pumpkin, and Autumn beers. Tickets are going fast and you can go to our website (corksfinewine.com) to find out how to get tix and more info on the event.
The weather looks like it’s going to be a perfect fall weekend, so be sure to stop by and load up for the Sox playoff games (hopefully at a decent hour) and the Pats 1st game of their west coast road trip. Have a great weekend.
Robert
My cousin Vinnie or 1 of his harem of Bud girls will be in tonight (Thursday) from 4:30 to 7:30 for the official launch of the brand new Budweiser American Ale. We did sample this at the last big beer tasting but were not allowed to sell it at that time. If you didn’t get a chance to taste it, it’s surprisingly really good. It kind of taste like a Bass Ale but at 2 bucks less per 6-pack, and is actually 1 of the few Budweiser products I like and get behind and recommend.
We will take this week off from the wine tastings but we will be back next Friday night with Tom (he ain’t heavy he’s my brother) from Carolina Wines. Don’t forget the Oktoberfest at Mansfield Crossing next Tuesday, October 7th from 5 to 7 PM. There will be 20 great local restaurants there and we will be pouring our best Oktoberfest, Pumpkin, and Autumn beers. Tickets are going fast and you can go to our website (corksfinewine.com) to find out how to get tix and more info on the event.
The weather looks like it’s going to be a perfect fall weekend, so be sure to stop by and load up for the Sox playoff games (hopefully at a decent hour) and the Pats 1st game of their west coast road trip. Have a great weekend.
Robert
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