4th Annual Grand Spring Wine Tasting this week!

Welcome to Cork’s weekly newsletter.

It’s going to be crazy the next couple of days here at Cork’s. We have the opening of the Tweeter Center season tonight with Kanye West and on Friday it’s our 4th Annual Grand Spring Wine Tasting.

To help launch the concert season our friend Josh from Magic Hat Brewery will be here for a beer tasting from 4 to 7 PM tonight (Thursday). He will sample you on #9, Circus Boy, H.I.P.A., Odd Notion, and the new Lucky Kat. These are great beers from Vermont and as with all our beer tastings you will receive 10 % off any of the beers that we taste.

Now for the once postponed but not forgotten big Spring Wine Tasting. It will be this Friday night from 4 to 7 PM. We have 14 tables and 92 wines as we go to print on the list. We have a bunch of new wines…summer whites…roses…barbecue wines…and lots of your favorites to revisit. This is a great time to stock up for the summer season and get 10 % off 6 bottles and 15 % off a mixed case. There will be a few “2 for” wines mixed in that will not discount further but will count towards the quantity. For those new to our big tastings here are a few tips to make it more enjoyable.

1) Bring your favorite wine glass. We will have small wine glasses for you to use but to get the complete experience its best in a bigger glass where you can swirl and sniff to fully appreciate the wines.

2) Enough with the rinsing with water between every wine! This dilutes the next wine that goes in the glass and is totally unnecessary. We will have water for you to consume but there is no need to rinse after every wine.

3) Spitting and dumping is encouraged. I know it sounds gross and wasteful but to try 92 wines, even a 1 oz. pour is impossible and we prefer not to pick people off the floor and be calling cabs. And don’t worry we mix all the buckets for a tasty blend at the end so they don’t go to waste.

4) We will have plenty of Pizza Tyme Pizza and snacks but let’s not be animals (Tommy Bolini) so that everybody can have a chance at it.

5) You will be given a list of the wines with a # in the right hand corner. That is your # for the night. If you try a wine you like just tell the vendor and he/she will put your # on the bottle and we will have runners pick it up and start a box for you at the front of the store. At the end of the tasting just go up front and tell the cashier your # and we will have the wines all ready for you.

6) We have scaled back and spread out the tables to make the wines more accessible. This is a great opportunity to talk to the vendors learn more about these wines and wine in general from some of the best wine salesmen (and bull@*%$’ers) in the business.

For those who haven’t been here in awhile we now have our liquor license and a complete selection of distilled spirits on the right hand wall as you enter the store. We are fully stocked and ready for the concert and summer seasons. We have new signs out front as well and hope you make us your 1 stop liquor store of choice. I thank you all in advance and we hope to see you all at the show!

Robert