Friday, November 14, 2008
Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter.
I want to thank all those who attended our 4th Annual
Grand Holiday Wine Tasting and made it a huge success. I
think it we’ve finally got it down to where we have
plenty of wine/beers at the se big events, and still
have enough room to maneuver around and talk to the
sales reps. The mix of wines, and even liquors seemed to
work for you as well. We did have a minor delay with
traffic and getting the 2nd batch of pizza, but overall
I think the tasting went smoothly. Please feel free to
send us comments, good or bad so that we can fine-tune
even more for the next big tasting.
Speaking of the next big tasting, that would be our
4th??...5th?? Annual Superbrew Beer Tasting (I’m
starting to lose track of the m to be honest). This year
the event will be on the bye week between the AFC/NFC
Championship games and the Super Bowl. Last years
Superbrew was the day before the big game, and was just
a bit out of control with the Patriots in the game and
all. So this years big beer tasting will be on Saturday,
January 24th from 2:30 to 5 PM. Hopefully the Pats can
spank the Jets tonight and make a run at it despite the
incredible amount of injuries they’ve suffered this
year.
OK...interesting sidebar...as I’m writing about the
Patriots in the newsletter a rather large gentlemen
inquired about and bought an Opus One, 2 Larry Bird
Legend Meritage, a few high end Bordeaux, and a few
bottles of expensive liquor. Now being the sports geek I
am (in my Ty Warren jersey for tonight’s game) I asked
Erin to check out the name on the card. Turns out it's
Jarvis Green of our New England Patriots!! Funny thing
is I’m going to a charity wine tasting this Saturday at
Johnson & Wales Inn in Seekonk this Saturday sponsored
by the Jarvis Green foundation. There were over 20
Patriot players there last year, and lots of cool stuff
auctioned off with proceeds going to help hurricane
Katrina victims. Tickets are a bit steep at $100, but
there will be tons of high end wines and great foods to
sample. Check out our website (corksfinewine.com) for
more info if you’re interested in attending.
We do not have any beer or wine tastings lined up for
this week as we recover from last week’s big event. We
do have a ton of tastings scheduled between now and
Christmas, and we will set up a list/calendar of them on
the website by this weekend. We do have a tasting this
Saturday on Schwartzhog liqueur from 1 to 4 PM. This is
a less expensive, knock off of Jagermeister and actually
contains hog root. Unfortunately Kevin from Commonwealth
will not be available to taste you on his fine product,
so we’ve had to hire a supermodel.
Be sure to check out all the new and interesting holiday
beers and gift sets that we recently brought in. We have
a couple of racks set up in front, and most of these
items are in very limited quantities so stop in early
for the best selection. I hope you all have a great
weekend and we’ll see you soon.
Robert
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