Weblog: an Archive of our Newsletters and Sales

Hello Free Rangers, Sometimes, when one makes their own deadlines, one slips away. Hence the MIA e-mail last week. Sorry about that. Also, I was applying for a job at the Chronicle for which at least 3 or 4 dozen of you are far more qualified than I. There’s a great...

Ya Know Free Rangers, Some people find me abrasive. No, it’s true. I rub some folks the wrong way. Reasons and excuses exist for individual interactions, but from a mile up it’s largely a defense mechanism. A defense of the limited time we are granted...

Greetings Free Rangers, Recently, I’ve been working on other wine related copy, beside this (mostly) weekly(-ish) note. While I’m just as behind on that as almost everything else at the moment, I had almost forgotten how much I used to enjoy deadlines, back in my...

Bless Me Free Rangers, For I have sinned. It wasn’t until Tuesday that I realized I hadn’t sent an e-mail for the week. But I was also in Northern California, amongst dear friends and a copious pile of local bottles, on an emergency wine tasting mission. Nothing like...

Hello Free Rangers, First order of business is that the Willett Rye winner from last week’s offer was just pulled from a literal hat, well the order number was, and that number belonged to Erich B, who has a free bottle of Willett Rye 4yr waiting for him. And thanks...

Hola Free Rangers, While this current era is punctuated by a losing of time, working too many daytime hours in the confines of the cellar further confounds this phenomenon, and my perception is unwilling to accept that it’s been a week since we last spoke (here). A...

Lorem Ipsum Free Rangers, First a bit of housekeeping with a side order of addendum/correction: * We have officially suspended the in-store tasting program for fairly obvious safety reasons, but on the upside we are re-launching our weekly e-mail...

Here’s The News That’s Fit to Print Free Rangers,It’s difficult to understand these virulent anti-maskers (pun intended) that I keep seeing on the Twitter. An interchangeable CNN talking head attempted a genuine debate with one of them, and after the usual...

Hello Free Rangers,Since there is going to be a fairly involved narrative (which does conclude with a cost sale), let’s start with this week’s FREE in-store tasting, so as not to get this lost in the shuffle. This Thursday (5-7pm), our buddy Myles will be here in the...

Hey Free Rangers, Free Range Wine & Spirits has existed entirely in spaces with terrible karma. It started by acquiring the lease and the liquor license (but not the deep debt and profound bad faith in a small corner of the industry) from a tiny failing wine shop...