McGinn’s Russell Street Wine Merchants, R.I.P.

McGinn’s Wine Merchants has Closed

Jerry says it pretty well. I like McGinn’s, and will miss them.

An Open Missive from McGinn’s

To all of McGinn’s valued patrons and pals,

It is with deep regret and a great sadness that I must  inform everyone that McGinn’s Russell Street Wine Merchants will be closing our doors come mid-February. Throughout our five plus year tenure on Russell St. we have remained committed to service, integrity, information, mayhaps small doses of intelligence, and a sense of whimsical fun.  We’ve tried our damnedest not to be remotely about ego or arrogance.  Those factors were simply not allowed. Through character(s), camaraderie, conversation and commentary, and, yes, some low-brow comedy, I feel McGinn’s has risen to the status of a truly special place. It has become a place of wonder and magic to me. It has taken the planet’s economical and financial morass, and a perfect storm to finally bring us to our own fiscal knees. It was a tenuous scenario, and a phenomenon that we just weren’t able to outrun.

For this I am sorry.

In my life, and I believe that I speak for all of the “Russell Street  Irregulars”, failure has always been defined as an event. It has never defined a man(fem) who has dreamed a dream and toiled to pursue that dream.

Never.

That being said, I will not ever apologize for setting out on the course that I have.

That also being said, I give notice that, in time, we will be back.

Hopefully,  it shall be with a smarter and stronger business model that will allow me to ultimately retire on my own terms, and not on the whims of an outer world.

In closing, thank you, thank you, thank you, all.

Respectfully and with all love,

Jerry McGinn

So sad to hear the news. Best of luck to Jerry and his family