| Whoa Free Rangers, First, the Lopez de Heredia sale has been extended through this week. You can access that sale page here: Lopez de Heredia Rioja Sale! You want some. Now, as many of you have noticed, I haven’t been around the shop for what is a very long stretch by my standards. I apologize to those of you I have missed, and to those still awaiting responses from past e-mails, but I am still in a bit of a Covid haze, and am just getting back to myself. This is at least my 2nd (likely 3rd) bought, but that’s what one gets for having a public facing business through a pandemic. This round was much more fraught with persistent headache and significantly unstable equilibrium. I felt like I was on a boat for last few days, and not in a fun seafaring sort of way. Our little team has really stepped up, and I’m damned glad we have the crew that we do. I had planned to add some incisive observations here about the state of the pandemic in political and international context, but my beaten cranium is not forming any prose in that direction that seemed worth your time. #Deleted … So hazy…. Ow, my brain. Wow, Derek just reminded me that Atlantic Antic is upon us (Sunday). As most of you who have been with us since the Before Times are well aware, Atlantic Antic is a disaster for us, and given the limited options for retail booze businesses in an outdoor setting (we can’t legally sell or pour anything), I genuinely believe they should pay us (and all other retail wine & spirits shops on the Ave) annual damages for the money we lose during this event, which is ostensibly to increase revenue for Atlantic Ave businesses. There’s a reason why Heights Chateau (who has graced Atlantic Ave many seasons longer than we have) simply closes that day every year. We spent our first few years trying to find a creative way to use the space and do at least regular Sunday business, but it’s usually just us defending our territory from squatters and yelling at people to not leave their trash on our windowsill, while telling drunk out of town idiots that we have no public bathroom for them to defile. On top of this, increased regulations and corporate interests have turned what was once the last truly neighborhood based street fair in Brooklyn into the same temporary strip mall of tube socks, sunglasses, and the same basic food stalls you’d see at any other, but also with corporate sponsors. I mean, who doesn’t go to a neighborhood street fair to sign up for a new credit card and pick up a new wireless plan?! So this Sunday, per usual for the last few years, we will open as the chaos is winding down, for all of your dinnertime wine and spirits needs from 4:00 – 8:30pm. For those of you local friends who are deliberately out of town for the “event”, godspeed, we wish we were going with you. And for the weekly sale, here’s a fairly serious collection of super rare and delicious Japanese Whiskeys from Mars, Akashi, and Suntory. To the best of our knowledge, the vast majority of the prices below are lowest in town, and a few of these bottles are only available at a handful of shops in the City. Happy hunting! (!) Click here for the hidden sale page (!) Japanesse Whisk(e)y Sale: Retail: Mars Iwai Tradition Sherry Cask Finish $79 $99 Mars Iwai Tradition Aki Napa Wine Cask $69 $89 Mars The Lucky Cat Choco Whisky $149 $199 Mars Komagatake Single Malt 2021 $175 $225 Mars Tsunuki Peated Single Malt Whisky $189 $235 Mars Maltage Cosmo Wine Cask Malt Whiskey $123 $175 Akashi Single Malt $109 $129 Akashi Single Malt Sake Cask 5 Year $169 $225 Akashi Single Malt Ume Cask 4 Year $145 $189 Akashi Single Malt Sherry Cask 5 Year $229 $269 Suntory Hibiki Harmony $75 $99 Suntory Yamazaki 12 $129 $149 Suntory Hakushu 12 $165 $199 Suntory Hibiki 17 $1000 $1200 Suntory Yamazaki 18 $1100 $1300 *** Online exclusive! *** *** This week only! *** Cheers, Jack Proprietor Free Range Wine & Spirits P.S. Free Range E-mail Archive |
