Thursday, March 31, 2011

Red Sox...Spring Tasting...Snow? You need Cork's!

Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter. Well we’re just 2 weeks away from our 6th Annual Grand spring Wine Tasting. It is on Thursday night April 14th from 5 to 7:30 PM. I’m right in the middle of picking out the wines and it looks to be an awesome lineup. We will have more details and a peek at some of the wines on the website at http://www.corksfinewine.com/. And we are just 1 day away from the opening of the Redsox World Series winning 2011 season. I just heard on sports radio that out of 75 prognosticators, all but 12 had the Sox winning it all! So even though it’s going to snow tomorrow it’s all good at 3 PM when the game starts. We will have it on here at Cork’s of course, and I will have my Redsox gear on doing a wine tasting featuring Sox wines.
Tonight’s beer tasting is with Greg from Arborway Imports. He will be pouring the 22 OZ. beers of Clown Shoes out of Ipswich, MA. That lineup consists of Clementine White Ale, Tramp Stamp Belgian IPA, Eagle Claw Fish Imperial Amber, Brown Angel Imperial Brown Ale, Hoppy Feet Black IPA, and Hoppy Feet 1.5 Imperial Black IPA. I haven’t had all these beers yet (I will after tonight as we pre-game for the Bruins!) but the ones I’ve had have been excellent. They’ve got some good press out there and you know we love to support the local guys. So be sure to stop in tonight between 4:30 and 7 and get 10 % off these delicious local brews.

I will be doing a wine tasting this Friday night from 4:30 to 7 PM featuring the wines that are in this week’s wine specials. I will start with 2 wines from Robert Oatley out of Australia. His Pinot Grigio is a bit different than the American and Italian versions with more body and spicy aromas. The Rose of Sangiovese is a great wine for the warm spring and summer months, and pairs great with all kinds of food. Staying in Australia we have Merlot and Cabernet from Marquis Phillips. I got a great deal on these wines and we have them sale priced this week at $10.99 which is $4 off ! And to kick off the Sox opener I’m opening up last year's Chardon-K and ZinfandEllsbury wines. These 2 wines are actually really good but with Beckett sucking last year and Jacoby on the DL most of the year they just didn’t sell as well as Sox wines in the past. We have them almost at cost and they can be yours for just $9.99.

Wine Sale Items for week ending 4-6-11

Josh Beckett Chardon-K … $9.99

Jacoby Ellsbury ZinfandEllsbury … $9.99

Robert Oatley Pinot Grigio or Rose of Sangiovese …$12.99

Marquis Phillips Merlot or Cabernet … $10.99

Beer Sale Items for week ending 4-6-11

Redhook ESB 6-packs … $7.69

Sierra Nevada Glissade 12-pack … $12.99

All Winter Beers 15 % off !!

Liquor Sale Items for week ending 4-6-11

Godiva Rasberry or Chocolate Vodka 750 ML … $26.99

Zaya 12 YR Old Aged Rum $27.99

Canadian Club Whiskey 1.75 Liter …$24.99

I hope you all have a great weekend…Go Redsox !!


Robert

Thursday, March 24, 2011

6th Annual Spring Tasting coming soon...save the date!

Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter. Thankfully we avoided that mini snowstorm that they were talking about. We can’t have any more snow with the Sox opening up in a week. Speaking of the Redsox, this years Longball Cellars wines are ChardonClay and Cabernace for Buchholz and John Lester. They will be here in early May and we’ll taste them when they come in. We had a tasting lined up with Geary’s tonight but we have to cancel it. We’ve done Geary’s a bunch of times in the last few months, and I’m sure most of you know what this great Micro brewery from Maine is all about. We are still featuring the 12-packs this month for $13.99 with a free pint glass.

We don’t have a wine tasting scheduled for this Friday either. We will put something together for next Friday night and our 6th Annual Grand Spring Wine tasting will be in just 3 weeks. I am putting the lineup of wines and liquors together right now and it could be our best wine tasting ever! We will have close to 85 wines and a few liquor concoctions as well. We will post the lineup and more details on the website (corksfinewine.com) as the event draws closer. We have some great weekly sale items going on this week….are you folks checking out these greatly weekly promotions we have been running? There is a whiteboard in the front of the store and signage on these discounted items throughout the store. Part of this week’s sale is a wholesale discount on all French wines of 20 %. For some reason French wines just don’t sell the way they used to…be it the Aussie invasion…or France’s boycott of the Gulf war (do you remember Freedom Fries?)...or their stubbornness to list the varietals on the label...either way French wines have been down for quite some time. So we will be swapping the French wines from the front of the lay downs with the Spain/Portugal/Europe laydown wines. So hopefully after we sell a bunch of French wines this week before we will make this swap.

Wine Sale Items for week ending 3-30-11

- Stephen Vincent Crimson…750 ML … $10.99
- Luccio Moscato D’Asti… 750 ML …$8.99
- ALL FRENCH WINES IN THE STORE 20 % OFF !!

Beer Sale items for week ending 3-30-11

- Genesee Light/Ice/Light 30-Packs… $13.99
- Sam Adams Barrel Room Selections …750 ML …. $8.95
- All Opa- Opa 64 OZ. Growlers * $5.99… * Double IPA $11.99

Liquor sale Items for week ending 3-30-11

- Skinny Girl Margarita … 750 ML … $10.99
- Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey …750 ML …$21.99
- Ursula’s Nip special of the week…Tres Leches Cream Liqueur 50 ML… 99 cents

Robert