Salutations Free Rangers,
First, any local shop area folks want a 55 gallon bourbon barrel (empty) for use in the garden, as grill wood, or for an art/design project, and can pick it up this week? Re: here, say so, and it’s yours.
Strange days. The space-time continuum seems more elastic than usual. Like the absurd and sublime have never been farther apart while stabbing toward each other at an unprecedented clip. Scattered, like sands through the fidget spinner of the time fog at the intersection of Atlantic & Hoyt. Speaking of which, a funny thing happened on the way to this week’s FREE in-store tasting, but we’re back on track now and everybody has the same set of information and plan for the week ahead, even those who never ever send confirmation e-mails, yes Myles?! So, this Wednesday, Feb. 7th (5-7pm), our buddy, Myles, will be here in the shop pouring you FREE tastes of our three best selling Sauv Blancs: Blicks Lane from NZ and Laporte Sauv Blanc from France side-by-side w/ Laporte Sancerre (also 100% Sauv Blanc). There is no substitute for comparative tasting. Words can never quite explain what the palate knows to be true. All tasting wines are 10% off, tasting day only!
And the Super Sale Page saga continues! While a few rare cherries have been picked to extinction, new additions include IW Harper 15yr, Corison Cabernet Napa 2018, Bomberger’s 2023, Bardstown Bourbon x Foursquare Rum, and 2 x Sine Qua Non Syrah(s)!
(!) Click Here for Super Sale Page (!)
And now this:
We’re sneaking in a Magical Mystery 6-Pack Sale!
For those of you who have not yet been with us for one of these, this is a fairly unique opportunity to pick up some old and rare wine (in some cases irreplaceable) at well below market value. The 6-packs detailed below are drawn from bottles lost and found in the considerable depths of our cellar, and from my unruly personal collection (and past auction purchases), randomly packed in Free Range 6-bottle carriers. These bottles could be literally anything. All wines are at least a few years since harvest, and many are 20+ years in bottle. These bottles are almost entirely red, and lean heavily toward new world fruit sources (OR, CA, WA), though not always new world styles. Absolutely none of these are cast-offs, and the vast majority were originally purchased with personal consumption in mind, but I officially possess more wine than is consumable in three lifetimes. We’ve tried to make as many available as possible, but fair warning, these packs have gone pretty quickly in the past.
The chaos of the move has both surfaced some crazy outliers, and thrown motion detected flood light on the sheer total of bottles we own (per available square footage). As such, our Crapshoot 6-pack is the best price per bottle we’ve yet offered in a Magical Mystery pack: you pay less than $20 per bottle and we guarantee more than double that in fair market value, though many packs will far exceed. On the other end, there are some pretty old bottles and random one-offs in here. While older bottles can have challenging corks, the juice inside has usually made it successfully here to the future with us. But given the value vs cost, there are no guarantees on this pack, and there may be a weird bottle or two (but the rockstars will rock). And if you are going to be pulling older corks, we recommend a 2-prong cork puller, or a waiter’s corkscrew. Our Sure Thing 6-Pack is $249, and also gets you at least double that price in fair market value, and will contain some fairly significant old and rare bottles. Even with these higher pedigree selections, old corks may crumble and a 2-prong cork puller is always your best bet. Though worst case, you can always run wine through a coffee filter or reusable tea bag to remove broken cork bits. ***We genuinely don’t know who started the rumor that broken corks mean that your wine is corked, but it is categorically false.
There are no limits, so pick as many of either or both packs as you like, we’ll fulfill as many as we can, and will do our best to avoid duplicates for multiple pack orders. Happy hunting!
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*** Unrelated to anything else, the shirt pictured below was misread by almost everyone. And yes, it’s meant to be a Greta Thunberg reference (though we also would have accepted Gerwig, Lee, or Garbo).
Cheers,
Jack
Proprietor
Free Range Wine & Spirits
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