Weblog: an Archive of our Newsletters and Sales

Olé El Free Rangers, Full disclosure: this one gets a little raw, in both yuck factor and violent language. If you’d like to proceed directly to FREE in-store tasting(s) and current sales, please feel free to skip the following chonky paragraph. #NoOffenseTaken It’s...

Hey Free Rangers, It’s difficult to overstate how demoralizing it can be to have amassed the kind of wine collection (and knowledge) that I have when 9 out of 10 questions over the last 3 months have been one of these: 1) What do you have that’s cold? 2) Do you have...

It’s All Happening Free Rangers, The Great Infrastructure in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce has declared it autumn, regardless of the 80+ degree temps that leave moist wrist prints on the godforsaken contraption upon which I currently type, tipping...

Hello Free Rangers, The wash of jungle climate weeks, here in steamy subtropical Brooklyn, obscures all traditional indicators of reality at street level, here in our little corner of the world. If not for the persistence of our furry four-(occasionally 3)legged...

Hola Free Rangers, In Marc Maron’s latest (and best?!) special, he quite deliberately hits a modern taboo word (or two), and acknowledges that about 2% of his audience will send him an e-mail saying that while they understand his intent, these words used in any way...

Hey Free Rangers, There are aspects of this gig that are shared with bartenders and school teachers that specifically derive from interacting with tides of humans in the same place over time. Here in our 13th year, we’ve had to make good several times on a semi-joking...

So Free Rangers, This is a new one. It’s Thursday early afternoon, and Pasquale’s first day back; his formerly cubist elbow deflated to a more surrealist rendering, with only a slightly corpse-y cast to its features. He’s catching up, which is to say still at least...

Hey Free Rangers, Stabbing through the morning’s business, and trying to corral a murder of phrases, clauses, and notions into a coherent paragraph or two when Off Brand Shrek knocks on the side window, just to let us know that he’s still out there. Not certain when...

Ya Know Free Rangers, Having the words is never the issue. It’s finding the time and space such that the notions achieve escape velocity from the gravity of it all. This is becoming the chore. And as chores are by definition time consuming, how does one manipulate...

Whoa Free Rangers, Way behind this week. More than usual. We just lost two days to insane connectivity issues- two real two steps back kind of days- but seems to be back up and running now. Though we lost all of our Sonos playlists. Holy cr@p, that’s bad software, but...