Cork's Fine Wine Newsletter - October 22, 2009 Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter.  We are just about 1 week away from our 5th Annual Grand Fall Wine Tasting.  The date is next Thursday, October 29th from 5 to 7:30 PM.   I still have a couple of suppliers to finish off but it looks like we will top out at 15 tables and 100 items for you to taste!!...93 wines…and 7 liqueurs.  Over half of these are new in the last few months and we have a price point for everybody - from 2 for $14 value wines to $40 Cabs and Champagnes.  I will have a listing of all the items to be tasted on the website (corksfinewine.com) by the weekend. I’m thinking next week’s newsletter will be a brief reminder on the tasting, so I will talk more about the event in this week’s newsletter.  The tasting is just a couple days before Halloween so we encourage all of you to wear a costume.  In fact, like we did a couple of years ago, we will offer a free gift to everybody who dresses up for the event.  But don’t get to excited; it’s usually just a crappy bottle of wine off our closeout rack!  One thing to get excited about is our new Pizza supplier.  Ironically the new place is called Pizza Time (Foxboro) and the 1 we used to use is called Pizza Tyme (Norton)…OK, sorry Tommy Bolini, there really is no “irony” there, just a coincidence.  Tommy is obsessed with the rampant incorrect usage of irony in the sports world...don’t even get him started on “chomping/champing at the bit” Anyway, we met these wonderful people at the Oktoberfest a few weeks ago and their food is outstanding.  They have some calzone/stromboli like thingies called Frazola that are to die for.  So we will give them a whirl at the tasting and see how many Mel can stuff in his piehole! Let’s not forget about the beer side of things as we still have quite a bit of Oktoberfest and Autumn beers still hanging around.  That means winter beers and holiday brews are right around the corner as well.  We have a special guest appearance by our friend Bill Tredo to taste us on some delicious brews from England tonight from 4:30 to 7:30 PM.  He has 3 beers from Wychwood…Scarecrow Golden Pale Ale, Fiddler’s Elbow, and Hobgoblin Dark English Ale.  Next up is an Organic English Ale from Duchy Originals.  And lastly we have Monty Python’s Holy Grail Ale.  I can’t remember how the beer tastes, but that is still one of my favorite movies of all time.  Ironically…OK...coincidently, these beers will be perfect for the Patriots rout of the Buccaneers at Wembley Stadium in London this Sunday! Robert