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This month’s First Wednesday Wine Flight is the last of the 2011-12 academic year.

The and the Vintage Aggies Wine Club sponsor the wine tastings, held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the pub (on the south side of the Silo.

The June 6 wine tasting theme is “Wines With a Past,” featuring Sonoma County's . It has "a great history that endears these great wines to wine drinkers,” the First Wednesday Wine Flight organizers said.

Brothers Giuseppe and Pietro Simi produced their first wines under the Simi name in 1876. In 1904, they both died suddenly, and Giuseppi’s 18-year-old daughter, Isabelle, took over. She and her husband struggled through Prohibition, and, when it ended, they had a wealth of beautifully aged wines.

After this week’s event, First Wednesday Wine Flights are set to resume in September.

The cost is $10, and no reservations are needed. To reserve a table, purchase tickets in advance or schedule private tastings, call the Gunrock Pub, (530) 752-6262.

Cork recycling effort

Wait! Don’t toss that cork! Recycle it, by dropping it off at the , which is now an official collection site for .

Portugal’s Amorin cork company and Montana’s SOLE footwear are partners in ReCork, which touts recycled cork for use in shoes, fishing rod handles, bulletin boards, place mats, flooring tiles, building insulation, gaskets, packaging materials and even as a soil amendment in compost. As a shoe component, cork substitutes for petroleum-based materials.

The ReCork website keeps a running count of recycled corks: nearly 33.5 million as of June 4. In return, Amorin and SOLE have planted nearly 8,000 cork oaks in Portugal.

ReCork takes natural cork only, whereas the Gunrock Pub is taking all corks, natural or plastic. The natural cork stoppers go to ReCork, the plastic stoppers go to the , where discarded items like corks can find new lives.