Welcome to our Memorial Day newsletter!

You know summer is right around the corner when they’re forecasting temperatures in the 90’s tomorrow, and the Tweeter Center has kicked off their concert season.  And even though we lost 2 of 3 the Sox still have a 9 1/2 game lead on the evil empire. 

Speaking of the Sox the Redsox wines should be out next week and we have a huge kickoff/tasting scheduled for Friday June 8^th.  We will have lots of giveaways including State St. Pavilion Redsox tickets to give away!  So keep checking the website (corksfinewine.com) for all the details.

To kick off the summer beer season we will be sampling some of the new summer brews that have hit the shelves in the last couple of weeks.  Blue Moon Honey Moon Summer Ale, Newport Storm Summer Ale, Harpoon Summer Ale, and Saranac Pomegranate Wheat will be tonight’s starting lineup.  The tasting will be from 4:30 to 7:30 and as always you will receive 10 % off on any of the beers we taste that evening.

Keeping the summer theme going we will have a Rose tasting on Friday night from 4 to 7 PM.  There is a great cover story in the May 31^st issue of the wine spectator about this often misunderstood style of wine.  I know a lot of you see pink and immediately think sweet White Zinfandel.  For most roses that is simply not the case. 

At the risk of boring the wine aficionados out there rose wines are made from red grape varietals (Zinfandel, Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre, and many others) that they simply remove the skins earlier in the fermentation process thus creating a pink colored rose wine.  Batting leadoff will be Cristalino Rose Brut, Rose d’ Anjou, Chateau Ste. Michelle Dry Rose, and forcomparison we will close with Beringer White Zinfandel.

We will be closed Monday for Memorial Day so be sure to stock up this weekend on all your beer and wine.  I hope everybody has a safe and enjoyable Holiday and thanks for being loyal Cork’s customers.  As we talked about in last weeks e-mail we are in the planning stages of out 1^st annual customer appreciation cookout/beer & wine tasting event.  It will be sometime in July, any ideas or suggestions?