NEWS…in a letter!

FROM OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER (sign up at website if you don’t already get it)

Start thinking — softly, calmly — about that special Thursday 2.5 weeks hence. We’ve got our special-order system in place at all three stores, and encourage you to sign up now or soon for turkeys, pies and cakes, rolls and more. More information will be posted in the coming days. Meanwhile, please ask our staff for any guidance you need.  Of course, if you wanna go rogue (sorry, bad timing on that phrase) with your meal planning and have some special ideas in mind, we’re here for you. We can order obscure fowl, special meats and more.  Rosemont will also have the best produce, from Maine and away, for your Thanksgiving table: local cranberries, root veggies of all kinds, fancy mushrooms, winter squash, Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes (thanks, Louisiana) and more. If there’s something you want that you don’t see, ask! For all your meals before and after November 25, consider our new butcher and fish departments at the Brighton store. Jared, our custom butcher, keeps turning out outrageously skilled and beautiful cuts, from locally and naturally raised animals. The entrecôte of beef (with olives, garlic and herbs), house-made Merguez sausage, turbot and Coho salmon look especially fine right now — but that’s right now; tomorrow it’ll be something else!

WINE NEWS! Scroll down for a whole buncha great tastings coming up. Rosemont is going to keep expanding its online wine specials. We’re down to the last few bottles of Argiano 2004 Brunello di Montalcino, so call quick if you want ’em. Now, though, we turn from Tuscany and Sangiovese to Piedmont and Nebbiolo…namely, the 2005 Cru stunners from Produttori del Barbaresco. More information forthcoming in a separate email (we’re hitting info-overload down at this end of the newsletter and Produttori del Barbaresco is not to be lost in the shuffle!); meanwhile, ask John at the Brighton store about these wines. Portland will be graced by Bobby Kacher himself this week, in fact, for one night only. Please join Bobby Kacher at a Wine Dinner Friday, November 12, at Havana South. Reservations only, $69 for five courses and six splendid wines. A bargain. Hit the Rosemont tasting first (see below) then get there!

Events!

Lots of ’em, in fact. Hold on to your hats, here we go: · Friday, November 12, 4-7 p.m. Munjoy Hill store: Wine tasting with Chris Campbell of C & P Wines. The most exciting Spanish wines we know of. You’ll love Chris. · Saturday, November 13, 12-2 p.m. Brighton Avenue store: Olive oil tasting with Shafiq Malouf of The Olive Harvest. How often do you get to do this? Then stick around for… · the same day and place, Saturday, November 13, 3-6 p.m. Brighton Avenue store: Wine tasting with Ned Swain of Devenish Wines. His voicemail announces whom you’re leaving a message for: “wine geek and adventurer”. That’s Ned. He’s so cute. He will show all French wines that meet at the intersection of geek, cute, and adventure (and awesome). · Dry out, then come on back Friday, November 19, 4-7 p.m. Brighton Avenue store, for a Wine tasting with Michael Burke of Vias Wines. Michael will bring the most stylish Italian wines imaginable, unimaginably stylishly.