Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter. It’s going to be
crazy the next couple of days here at Cork’s. We have
the opening of the Tweeter Center season tonight with
Kanye West and on Friday it’s our 4th Annual
Grand Spring Wine Tasting.
To
help launch the concert season our friend Josh from
Magic Hat
Brewery
will be here for a beer tasting from 4 to 7 PM tonight
(Thursday). He will sample you on #9, Circus Boy,
H.I.P.A., Odd Notion, and the new Lucky Kat. These are
great beers from Vermont and as with all our beer
tastings you will receive 10 % off any of the beers that
we taste.
Now
for the once postponed but not forgotten big Spring Wine
Tasting. It will be this Friday night from 4 to 7 PM.
We have 14 tables and 92 wines as we
go to print on the list. We have a bunch of new
wines…summer whites…roses…barbecue wines…and lots of
your favorites
to revisit. This is a great
time to stock up for the summer season and get 10 % off
6 bottles and 15 % off a mixed case. There will be
a few
“2 for” wines mixed in that will not discount further
but will count towards the quantity.
For
those new to our big tastings here are a few tips to
make it more enjoyable.
1)
Bring your favorite wine glass. We will
have small wine glasses for you to use but to get the
complete experience its best in a bigger glass where you
can swirl and sniff to fully appreciate the wines.
2)
Enough with the rinsing with water between
every wine! This dilutes the next wine that goes in the
glass and is totally unnecessary. We will have water for
you to consume but there is no need to rinse after every
wine.
3)
Spitting and dumping is encouraged. I
know it sounds gross and wasteful but to try 92 wines,
even a 1 oz. pour
is
impossible and we prefer not to pick people off the
floor and be calling cabs. And don’t worry we mix all
the buckets for a tasty blend at the end so they don’t
go to waste.
4)
We will have plenty of Pizza Tyme Pizza
and snacks but let’s not be animals (Tommy Bolini) so
that everybody can have a chance at it.
5)
You will be given a list of the wines with
a # in the right hand corner. That is your # for the
night. If you try a wine you like just tell the vendor
and he/she will put your # on the bottle and we will
have runners pick it up and start a box for you at the
front of the store. At the end of the tasting just go
up front and tell the cashier your # and we will have
the wines all ready for you.
6)
We have scaled back and spread out the
tables to make the wines more accessible. This is a
great opportunity to talk to the vendors learn more
about these wines and wine in general from some of the
best wine salesmen (and bull@*%$’ers) in the business.
For
those who haven’t been here in awhile we now have our
liquor license and a complete selection of distilled
spirits on the right hand wall as you enter the store.
We are fully stocked and ready for the concert and
summer seasons. We have new signs out front as well and
hope you make us your 1 stop liquor store of choice. I
thank you all in advance and we hope to see you all at
the show!
Robert