Weblog: an Archive of our Newsletters and Sales

So Free Rangers,The numbers around here have been promising, and either the energy out there is stabilizing a bit, or we’re just becoming completely desensitized to it all. Given the negative online reviews, and the decreased level of jackassery on the sales...

It’s True Free Rangers,The Aperol shortage is real. So are the Champagne, Agave, and Sancerre shortages; the former of which is officially the most first world problem of all time. People be drinkin’. And of course global supply chains are still considerably...

Hola Free Rangers,Just a reminder that the Channing Daughters PetNat sale is still live, and we’ve added a bunch of whiskeys from 2 great upstate distillers: Hudson Whiskey and Taconic Distillery. Hudson was way ahead of the curve and really...

Hey Free Rangers,It’s actually been quite a bit more comfortable summer than oppressive summer out there recently, but David Lee Roth has come up a bunch lately, hence the subject line. And while David Lee Roth was clearly a world class mess, and Eddie the...

Holy cr@p, Free Rangers,Somebody …Somewhere …Sometime …So, this nice older Australian couple comes into the shop with their pregnant daughter. “You got any Australian wines,” the dad begins, and immediately I have to steel myself. I have...

Hey Free Rangers,First, thanks for the significant response to the Kings County Distillery cellar finds sale! We’ve left that one live for one more week, for those of you who missed out, and/or those who want to go back for a double dip. As always, we’re...

  Hey Free Rangers,First: quick shoutout to our many new friends and e-mail listers! Since even before the pandemic set in, we’ve seen a long slow exodus of a lot of our local regulars from the neighborhood, even though many of you still read these e-mails, and write...

Hey Free Rangers,First: quick shoutout to our many new friends and e-mail listers! Since even before the pandemic set in, we’ve seen a long slow exodus of a lot of our local regulars from the neighborhood, even though many of you still read these e-mails, and write in...

Howdy Free Rangers, Strange days, friends and family. The energy out there at street level is volatile as a powder keg beneath a mercury switch. Between the January 6th hearings and the unprecedented and unaccountable Supreme Court rulings, our political system(s)...

Ya Know Free Rangers, First, as always if you want to skip right to the wine deal, that's two paragraphs down. Feel free. No offense taken... well, not much anyway. There's some very serious Chard down there, at the lowest price in the world. Now, this one has...