Weblog: an Archive of our Newsletters and Sales
Subtropical conundrums, Breuckelen Distilling in-store tasting, and the Sale of Sales…
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...
A tale of two replies, free Champagne, and cellar rarities on sale!
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...
Old Friends and cold cans (and great bands)…
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...
Immigrant bigots vs. ethical winemakers…
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...
The show must go on: Nashville Barrel Co in-store tasting Thursday!
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...
Off brand Shrek and the unbearable rightness of fleeing…
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...
St. George Spirits in-store tasting tomorrow!
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...
Crumbling Empire(s) and Our Favorite Chards 6-pack!
Well Free Rangers, The middle tier of our industry is crumbling, making what should be very basic transactions and interactions time consuming nightmares. I genuinely don’t recall the last time we ordered products, they arrived intact and on time, with no erroneous...
Free Rothman & Winter tasting, Sale of Sales, and the big Kvetch…
Hey Free Rangers, Re: the Neal Kvetch saga, after leaving his 1-star review, he came back in, but it was only to get my name right in his bitchy little review (there's a screen grab of the original in which he confidently calls me, Mark), and to show us that he bought...
Exclusive 34yr 151° Canadian Whiskey, FREE Sancerre in-store, and showdown at the intersection of ignorance and certainty…
Hey Free Rangers, Pretty sure the guy who just huffed out of here is on his way home to write a negative review, so I’ll just formulate my response here, and then adjust the next draft according to his own for the interwebs. We shall see. So, it’s 5pm on the dot on...