Thursday, December 11, 2008
Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter. We have lots of
stuff going on again this week with 2 wine tastings, 1
beer tasting, and a liquor tasting as well. The Celtics
are off to their best start ever, the Pats are hanging
around the playoff picture, the Bruins are playing
excellent and Redsox tickets go on sale this Saturday!
OK got my sports references out of the way early let’s
get to the tastings.
Friday night from 4 to 7 PM we have Kevin from
Commonwealth Wines here for a value Holiday wine
tasting. He will start with Polka Dot Riesling from
Germany. I’m sure most of you are familiar with, or have
had Dancing Bull Zinfandel. This is their flagship wine
and sells the best already, so we won’t be tasting that
one. But we will sample the Dancing Bull Sauvignon
Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet. These wines are
newly packaged and a great value at $10.99. Speaking of
values, for 1 night only we will feature the Redsox
Wines (Sauvignyoooooouuuuuk Blanc, Vintage Papi, and
Captain’s Cabernet) at only $9.99!!!...this is only
pennies above cost… and besides making great Christmas
gifts; this could be your last chance to get a Jason
Varitek wine while he’s still in a Sox uniform. Also on
Friday night from 4 to 7 we will have a Ty-Ku Asian
Citrus Liqueur tasting. This tasty green liqueur comes
in a funky bottle that actually lights up!
We have another wine tasting with Eric from Baystate
Wines lined up for Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4 PM. He
will feature 1 of our best selling Pinot Grigio’s called
Prendo. Next we go to 1 of the newer additions to the
Peirano estate wines called “The Other White”. This is a
blend of Chardonnay/Sauvignon Blanc/Viognier and a nice
alternative to the everyday Chards out there. From there
we go to California’s Central Coast for 3 new wines from
Lost Angel. Muscat Canelli, Mischief (a blend of
Cabernet/Petite Sirah/Sangiovese), and petite Sirah make
up this eclectic trio of wines. We will finish with
Chateau De Beauregard-Ducourt Bordeaux from the
outstanding 2005 vintage. This was recently written up
in the Boston Globe’s Plonkapaluza article as 1 of the
best value wines out there and is a steal at $12.99.
We also have a “Winter Beer” tasting on tap for Saturday
from 3 to 5 PM. My cousin Vinnie has taken the mystery
of whether or not we’ll have a supermodel or a dude do
the tasting by scheduling our pal Dan for this event.
His lineup includes Magic Hat Roxy Rolles, Redhook
Winterhook Ale, Winter Bourbon Cask Ale, Michelob
Porter, and Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale. I don’t know
about you but that sure sounds like a yummy tasting to
me.
This next part is a message from our webmistress that
I’m contractually obligated to add to my newsletter for
a few weeks.
To guarantee that you will always get your Cork’s
emails, we will be changing over the way we mail them
(the internet is turning bulk mail into spam and we
never want to spam you!). Since you signed up to be on
our email list, we’re going to list you on our new email
server called FeedBlitz. Sometime over the next few
weeks, you will receive an email from FeedBlitz where
they will ask you to click on a link to activate your
account. Just click on the link and the emails will come
to you as soon as we write them. That’s it! From that
point on, you’ll be receiving our emails worry free from
spam (what wine goes with spam???) Of course you can
always get our newsletter by going to our blog:
Corks Fine Wine Newsletter….
Oh, and we had a few suggestions as to what wine goes
well with spam…from unoaked whites ..to Riesling…to
Carlo Rossi Paisano…I’m sticking to any wine will
compliment that perfect concoction of canned meat!! Be
sure to check out the website (corksfinewine.com) for
more info on upcoming tastings, and great gift ideas for
the Holidays.
Robert
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