| Hello Free Rangers, First, both of the last two sales are live again! We were able to get another drop of those glorious 2019 Brittan Estate Chard and Pinot Noir at the discounted multi-case price, so the offer is extended to you for another week: Brittan Estate 2019 Sale! And sorry to those who clicked through last week to find the Amaras 4x 200ml sets or any of the limited edition Amaras 700ml bottles out of stock. So we ordered a bunch more such that the mezcal sale is also available for another week: Amaras Mezcal Sale! And now, join us in the Way Back Machine, will you? When I was a kid, Dunkin Donuts was well known to serve barely passable, sad watery coffee that nobody would deliberately seek out. So the joke was, ‘I’m going to Dunkin Donuts to get a coffee,’ meaning the crappy coffee was the implied excuse to also get a pile of filthy delicious donuts to shove into our faces (back when I could process that much sugar in one sitting). We would laugh about it in the car with our sad watery coffees and a dwindling box of glazed, strawberry jelly filled, and Boston Kremes. Then at some point while I was getting old and not paying attention, that somewhat complicated notion became filed down in the popular mind to, “Dunkin Donuts coffee is good,” such that other companies will license the brand name and unironically pitch it as a feature. There are countless similar examples throughout the culture which continually loosens further grasp from all nuance and context in our language, such that many things are known as the grand arbiter of the opposite of what they actually are, and have always been. According to Robert Anton Wilson, this form of our language, known in future times as Old High Horseshit, began to take root in earnest during the reign of Bush the Elder: the fine art of saying that which is not. The arc of our timeline is long, and it bends toward entropy. Goddam kids, get off of my culture’s lawn! Words have meaning. Let’s do The Timewarp Again. Oh, and there’s a new sale this week too! How ‘bout a discounted 6-pack snapshot of natural wine and PetNat?! The pack includes 1 white, 2 PetNat (bubbles), 2 orange/amber wines, and a red. Marcel Deiss Complantation 2020 is a light dry Gewurztraminer based blend that is light on acid with subtle fruits and florals. Don’t let the name fool you, Maeli Moscato (dry) Pet-Nat has no residual sugar, shows a nice persistence of bubbles, and a bone dry texture that I usually associate with limestone in still whites. And while I still can’t properly pronounce Anapea Village Rkatsiteli Rose 2020, and it is not a rosé, it is a lovely natural, typical Georgian wine, dark orange/amber in color, and showing a weightier tannin, making it very food friendly. Il Censo Prauar 2019 is a perennial favorite around here, and is very similar to the style of Paolo Bea Arboreus at a lower price. The current vintage is the darkest and densest we’ve seen and is the most “natural” of the bunch, but far from the unstable bottled experiment that so many get away with these days. Channing Daughters Bianco Pet-Nat is a bright dry fresh white bubbly with just enough earth tone to be interesting, by one of Long Island’s most ambitious producers. Foradori Teroldego 2021 is a longtime staple here on the Range, and is widely regarded as one of the finest and most consistent natural reds in the world. This medium+ bodied red has the vibrancy one would expect from natural wine, as well as that classic fruit/earth balance that the best of Italian wine is so known for. It is one of the few wines we’ve carried since the day we opened. Now how about all of that for $129 instead of the usual $164?! (!) Click here for the hidden sale page (!) sale: retail: Natty 6-pack: $129 $164 *** Online exclusive! *** *** This week only! *** Cheers, Jack Proprietor Free Range Wine & Spirits P.S. Free Range E-mail Archive |
