A week of radio silence wasn’t how I intended to start this new year either. A great philosopher once told me, “Sometimes life gets in the way.” Last year feels like a not great one that could’ve been much worse. Bullets were dodged, some of them anyway. But last year also feels like something to recover from, and we’ve been taking considered stock of it all. The dumbest most dishonest American Congress that has yet existed was just sworn in, but a handful of new genuinely progressive voices also attained seats that day. But given where the gavel now sits, don’t expect much in the way of legislation, just record levels of sound and fury.
Here at street level, the energy has been awkwardly staccato, even before the full moon while Mercury was in retrograde, though that evening did seem to be the high-water mark. A Young woman came in who had been in before. I offer assistance, and am not looked at, and a soft non-response wafts off of her profile as she pulls an Italian red from the shelf with the hesitant certainty of one she has probably enjoyed before. In mid-turn toward the counter, she swings back in my direction and tweets, “I just want you to know that I got a white wine here from Long Island and it sucked.” I took a beat and informed her that we don’t carry any still white from long Island currently and haven’t for some time. There is quite a bit of nice white made on Long Island, but I wasn’t interested to die on that hill in that moment. Connor added that we have a white Pet-Nat from Long Island, but Miss Congeniality knew it definitely wasn’t that one. But she was pretty sure she got it here. After paying for her bottle that didn’t suck, she took a few minutes to examine the wall of white, and upon not finding the offending wine, she smirked and left without another word. How ‘bout a ‘my bad’? Luckily the next few folks through the door were some of you friendly regulars, and one of your super sweet mushy-faced dogs, who let me vent about it.
This brings us to this week’s ONLINE ONLY sale, about which we’re pretty excited, as we haven’t done anything quite like this before. This is also for all those who’ve asked, “what do I get?” for joining the list and choosing not to, but it’s mostly for you! So, welcome to E-mail lister appreciation week! Which is to say you get a FREE BOTTLE with new orders of $99, $199, $350, and $550. This is for the e-mail list only! Please don’t share!
Click these links to pick your FREE gift level and start shopping:
Spend $99 ONLINE ONLY and get 1 FREE Magical Mystery Bottle of wine!
Spend $199 ONLINE ONLY and get 1 FREE mystery bottle of whiskey!
Spend $350 ONLINE ONLY and get 1 FREE bottle of Elijah Craig Toasted Barrel Bourbon!
Spend $550 ONLINE ONLY and get 1 FREE bottle of Yamazaki 12!
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And yes, you can order 4 times and pick one FREE gift per order!
And for all you Dry January folks, please say so and we’ll gladly hold your purchase until the end of the first of the month. Until then, we won’t mention it, or acknowledge that sweet sweet booze still exists in the world, we will not taunt Happy Fun Ball. But in all seriousness, we do support your effort, and always recommend that even the most regular of drinkers take considered time off each year, even if just to make sure you still can. Never hurts to give the old liver a bit of a respite. So, yeah, happy new year!
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Cheers,
Jack
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