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Dammit Free Rangers, I missed a week. But this one is in your mailbox on Monday, so let's start fresh. Speaking of which, Amex just reversed a previous decision to let a (first time, Manhattan) customer pull payment for wine which was never returned (aka theft). We...

Hey Free Rangers, Last Sunday would have been Michael Brooks’ 40th birthday. He was the most effective leftist communicator of our time, and for a man I never met, I miss him profoundly. At the core of everything he said and did was this: Be kind to people, be...

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser Holy Hell Free Rangers, It’s all at full bore these days.  Much positive, but all in flux.  So many moving parts.  If there’s going to be an e-mail this week (only two...

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser Hello Free Rangers, Did I not send this out on Monday? What day is this… man? Scattered. Like the focus of a Michael Bey joint. But in a good way. The Liquor Board finally got to processing the...

Hey Free Rangers, Scattered. Like buckshot in a vacuum through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. It’s an emotional rollercoaster out there these days (even more so in here) multiplied by whatever crazy from the humidity barometric insanity lords over us...

Hey Free Rangers,Apologies again for the uncharacteristically sporadic flow here, but I am getting my ace kicked from just about every conceivable angle these days. We’re into the dog days now, both out here in the sweltering concrete jungle and...

Hello Free Rangers, It seems like just yesterday that I wrote one of these. That’s because the last one went out on a very late Thursday, after skipping a week in the middle. I really try to have these land on Monday(s), every Monday, but the schedule has...

Hola Free Rangers,En route back from Kentucky, having tasted and selected barrels of 1792 Full Proof Bourbon and Sazerac Rye. And while if one can get an appointment, the barrel buying is good out here, it’s officially harder to get most Buffalo Trace products in...

Hey Free Rangers,A little brimstone-y out there these days, Brooklyn, no?Anywhoo, I’ve got content for two e-mails on the desktop, though neither is ready to go truth be told. But since there is something of news that is reasonably positive, and both former topics are...

Ya Know Free Rangers,I really enjoy the cellar work. I had to start my own thing just to get a decent gig as a cellar rat. Even at the lowliest post in the vintage wine scene, who would’ve hired me? I used to get fired a lot. There’s something wholly satisfying about...