It's spring on Nantucket and that means 16th annual Wine Festival is nearly upon us. The event kicks off tomorrow May 16th, and runs through the weekend with the finale on Sunday, May 20th. There are a number of events including a Grand Tasting on Saturday and Sunday, wine and food seminars, auctions, and more.

The Festival is always a good time and is highly recommended by at least a few of us at Nantucket Brand. If you have the chance, you should definitely try to make it to the Grand Tasting, if not to some of the other events. If you can't make it this year, you may need to make plans for 2013.

Check out the full list of events and purchase tickets at the Nantucket Wine Festival site. Of course, if you're on Nantucket, be sure to stop by one of our stores and say hi.

Skirtin' into Summer

Summer is coming and it's time for skirts. Shop for seersucker skiris, madras skirts, and colorful cotton twill skirts. All of these come in a variety of colors. See all our skirts now.

We received nearly 100 suggestions of what to name our newest madras when we asked for your help last week. Over 15 names were actually recommened twice. Here are a few of those (click to see all the name suggestions):

Nantucket Blues
Grey Lady Madras
Madaket Madras
blACK+blue madras
Surfside Blue
Ocean Blues Madras
Magnolia Madras
Mystic Madra
Annapolis Madras
Bar Harbor Blue
Blue fish madras
Bluefish Madras
Hurricane madras
Ocean Madras
Sunset Madras
Whale Tail Madras

We've decided to narrow it down to the top 5 suggestions agove. Let us know what you think by adding your vote on our Facebook page. The new name will be used for our new men's madras shorts, which will be the newest item in our madras clothing collection.

Summer is coming and it's time to make sure you've got yours shorts ready. We've got seersucker shorts in blue, green and pink. And soft twills in colorful honey dew green, pink, and light blue as well as traditional khaki, navy, stone, and white. There's even some madras shorts.

We're trying something new. We've got new men's madras shorts in the works and we want your help naming our new pattern! In the past, we've had Newport Madras, Mackinac Madras, and others. Take a look at the photo of the new pattern and let us know your suggestion. Hopefully, you can give us the name of our latest pattern in our madras clothing collection. Leave it in the comments here or just head over to the Nantucket Brand Facebook page and leave a comment.