January 17, 2008
Cork's Fine Wine & Liquors, LLC Newsletter
Mansfield, MA
Welcome to Cork’s weekly
newsletter.
There is so much stuff going on here I’m not
sure where to start. I guess I have to begin
with the 17-O New England Patriots who are just
1 win away from their 4th Super Bowl in 7 years.
This leads us to our Super Brew III Beer tasting
which is Saturday, February 2nd from 2 to 5 PM.
We are adding new beers every day and should top out
over 100 beers for the tasting. Be sure to check outthe website (corksfinewine.com) for details and updates.
While we are on the subject of beer I need to pass on
some bad news in the beer world. There is currently
a worldwide shortage of hops. This in addition to
fuel charges, inflation, and the yearly post Super
Bowl price increase, beer prices are going to
drastically rise in the next year. We will try to
keep prices as low as possible but micros (especially
the hoppier brews) have already taken large cost
increases. If your favorite microbrew has not gone
up yet, it will in the very near future so you might
want to stock up.
Well all this beer talk has me thirsty and heck it
is Thursday so let’s do a beer tasting. We don’t have
one scheduled so it looks like we will pull Mr. Wallace
off
the bench to sample you on some new brews. He will start
with 2 beers from Abita, Purple Haze Raspberry Wheat
Beer
and Turbodog. Next up is the winter offering from
Shipyard called Prelude. We will finish with Brooklyn
Brewery’s Black Chocolate Stout. So stop by between
4:30 and 7:30 and try some new brews.
We will take this week off from the Friday night wine
tastings. It is just very slow this time of year and we
will
probably do every other week for awhile although as most
of
you know I am here on Friday nights and can easily be
convinced to open a bottle if there is something you
would
like to try. We have also picked out the date for our
3rd
or 4th whatever we are up to "Spring Wine Tasting".
For those who don’t know, Easter is wicked early this
year
(March 23rd) so we will have the tasting on Wednesday,
March 12th from 5 to 8 PM. It will be over 100 wines and
I
will update you on the e-mails and on the website as the
event draws closer.
I have a favor to ask our regular customers. As most of
you
know, we have
been attempting to get our full liquor
license
almost since the day the store opened. We have applied
to
the town and there will be a hearing next Wednesday on
our
application. If we get the full license it will allow us
to sell distilled spirits and be able to better serve
you,
our customers. This is also very important to the
long-term
future and growth for us at Cork’s. For those of you
with a few minutes to spare if you could e-mail me back a very
brief
letter of support as to why we would be a good candidate
for
the license it would be greatly appreciated. We will
also havea petition by the register that we ask you to sign when
youstop by in the next week.
I thank you in advance for your support.
Robert
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