Weblog: an Archive of our Newsletters and Sales

Ya Know Free Rangers, We’ve experimented with extended opening and closing hours a number of times, going deep back into the Before Times, and our new home on this bright visible corner on historic Atlantic Ave (with our sad temporary vinyl signage) has sparked these...

Wow Free Rangers, This time it was a “local guide” on Google. It’s difficult to tell from the review, which is fairly hollow and fact free, but given the timing and that we had a grand total of one negative interaction that day, it was very likely the jackass who...

Ya Know Free Rangers, I don’t always handle things so well. No, it’s true. Just look at this. I shred every non-fiction writer I see for using too many ‘I’s, and here are four in two lines, and one right at the freakin’ front. There’s always a better way to convey the...

Holy Crow Free Rangers, What the hell was that? I think they’re calling it 2023. From our vantage point it appears in memory like a wooded area of the northeast corridor from the Acela train at full bore. With the move, and the Liquor Board holding us (and every other...

Hola Free Rangers, Everybody’s got a lot going on, so we’ll keep this brief. First, our Sazerac Rye Free Range Single Barrel sale is officially extended through the end of the year. While every bottle of Sazerac is a classic our single barrel is something special. And...

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Hey Free Rangers, Remember the Friday news dump? It was the practice by which politically bad news would be released at 4pm on Friday, knowing that most involved took their weekends more seriously than their jobs. Eventually, this...

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Well Hello Free Rangers! I was just about to spin tale of a young woman who walked out of the shop rather than answer the question, “By ‘natural’, do you mean cleanly made, or something that tastes earthy and funky?” Must be nice to...

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Hola Free Rangers, First, in case anybody is concerned- from the subject line- for his well being, our winemaker buddy from Santa Barbara, Scott Sampler, is alive, well, and as gregariously cantankerous as ever. For the...

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Hey Free Rangers, Apologies for the rare second e-mail in one week, but there is a very serious addition to TODAY'S FREE in-store tasting! Our buddy, Rob, from St. George Spirits will be pouring today (5-7pm) FREE tastes of St....

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Hey Pete (and Free Rangers of all names), So, I asked my friend, Peter, if he had read the latest Free Range e-mail, and without missing a beat, he replied with a wry grin and a question, “Did it begin, ‘Hey Pete’?” Implicitly...