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Our focus are the producers - brewers, distillers, or winemakers - who are incredibly passionate abou My wife and I founded Spencer & Lynn in March of 2020.

Our dream was to open a wine shop that we would want to shop at. Our focus are the producers, the people behind the glossy veneer of alcohol sales. These producers, whether they are brewers, distillers, or winemakers, are people who are incredibly passionate about what they are creating. We take it one step further and work with producers that are proponents of organic / natural production. The reason for this is because we fully believe this is only way forward for the world of wine, beer, and spirits. When you walk into our stores you will probably not recognize many of the brands. There are not small cards with scores below each wine, or descriptors written by a magazine. Most of our producers represented in the stores are small (beyond small for some). They do not produce much wine because they only produce what they grow and make themselves. Our staff sets us apart, because we are lucky to have amazing professionals in the store each day to help you with virtually any needs in the world of beverages. They, like us, are incredibly passionate about the products we sell and why we choose them. Thankfully all of us involved, drink wine, drink wine with food, and love to talk about it. David & Pamela (Spencer & Lynn)

10/30/2026

As you all know, we can hardly get Jess to take a break from talking mezcal. With only 240 bottles produced, Jess wanted to take a chance to talk a little bit about what makes these fleeting batches so special- read on- she’s got a lot to say!

First of all, in order to be classified as mezcal ancestral, the maguey used in this release was roasted in earthen pits in the ground, then be milled by hand using mallets, fermented with the maguey fibers in wooden tanks, then distilled in minuscule clay stills.

On top of all that, this release features one of the rarest and most challenging to work with species of agave- Jabalí. It can take 18 years to mature and it has incredibly tough fibers, which make it brutal to mill, especially when done by hand. It has an extremely high saponin content (think soap) which causes tons of foaming during fermentation. This foam can be damage stills during distillation, even leading to explosions. Mezcaleros who can safely wrangle this agave into mezcal are highly regarded.

Whew- all what does all this mean for you? It means you get to enjoy one of the rarest and most wild bottlings we’ve had come across our shelves in a while. Intensely mineral, grassy, white pepper, basil, mint, bruised green apple, and warm earth. All coming at you at undiluted still-strength.

Jess was nice enough to let Ryan speak for one of the bottles, that means we only have two more for a couple of lucky mezcal nerds. (Doing forget gift season is coming…) So come through and scoop one of these monsters!

10/22/2026

ONE FOR THE BOOKS. 🥃

Last Wednesday, we had the privilege of hosting Lance Winters, master distiller and creative force behind St. George Spirits, for his only stop in Connecticut.

This is why we love these nights: getting a small group around the table and hearing directly from the person who helped make the bottles in front of us. The craft spirits world can be crowded with buzzwords. St. George has spent more than 40 years letting the work speak for itself. Thoughtful sourcing, real transparency and a restless curiosity have made the distillery one of the defining names in American craft spirits.

We’ve supported St. George for a long time. Tasting through the lineup with Lance only reinforced why these bottles will always have a home at Spencer & Lynn.

Thank you, Lance, for making the trip to Mystic and sharing the evening with us. And thank you to everyone who joined us around the table.

Missed the class? Stop by and let us walk you through our St. George selection.
More classes are coming. Keep your eyes peeled. 👀🥃

10/02/2026

An iconoclast in the Roussillon, we want to (re)introduce you to Tom Lubbe of the venerable Domaine Matassa. Working 20ha in the hot and dry Côtes Catalanes IGP in the greater Languedoc-Roussillon AOC, Tom has been a guiding light for the greater low-intervention w**e movement for 20+ years.

Working with traditional Catalunyan varieties coming from old vines like Carignan, Macabeu, Muscat d’Alexandria, Muscat a Petit Grains, and Grenache Gris, Tom has refined his methods to bring terroir-driven textural orange w**es and softly extracted quaffable reds to the world. His dedication to increasing biodiversity and polyculture in his vineyards, simple vinification methods, and honoring the land through minimal intervention has created some of the most highly regarded w**es in the “natural” w**e world.

Many thanks to our friends LDM W**es, we are able to offer up limited quantities of the following to you:

Coume de l’Olla Blanc 2025- 45-year-old vine Macabeu, Muscat d’Alexandrie, and Muscat à Petits Grains. Citrus oil, orange blossom, and warming spice

Coume de l’Olla Rouge 2025- 55-year-old Grenache Noir, Grenache Gris, and Macabeu. Ripe red berries, hearty mountain herbs, and a juicy shining acidity

Cuvee Marguerite Blanc 2025- 60-year-old Muscat Blanc de Petits Grains, Macabeu and Muscat of Alexandria. Citrus peel, lychee, chamomile, a touch of pineapple, and tea notes

Tommy Ferriol 2025- 70% Syrah and 30% Muscat Petit Grains. Blueberry, tart cherry, white flowers, mouth-watering.
Brutal Orange 2025- old-vine Macabeu, super textural thanks to 4wks on skins. Grapefruit pulp, florality for days, apricot, and a very forward minerality. Our fave orange w**e.

Cuvee Alexandria 2025- 60-year-old vine Muscat d’Alexandrie. Lychee, mango, tea, orange peel, and roses. The Flagship!

Delicious w**es, Our Pal Tango Approved. Come snag your bottles.

08/27/2026

ESPRESSO MARTINI POP-UP THIS SUNDAY, 08/30 ☕️🍸!!!

Our pals at Meryl+Masa are bringing their espresso machine down to the shop and pulling shots by hand for the afternoon (well, okay from 2-4pm). Fresh espresso, straight into the shaker.

Beau (Young Beaumont, if you’re being formal) will be here shaking proper espresso martinis. Fresh baked goods and savory snacks by Meryl+Masa. A few of our favorite bottles open to taste, poured by us.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30TH • 2–4 PM.

Free to attend no RSVP needed. Just pop by, grab a martini, snag a snack, taste some w**e and hang with us.

See ya Sunday, friends ☕️🥐🍷

08/27/2026

ESPRESSO MARTINI POP-UP THIS SUNDAY ☕️🍸!!!

Our pals at Meryl+Masa are bringing their espresso machine down to the shop and pulling shots by hand all afternoon (well, okay from 2-4pm). Fresh espresso, straight into the shaker.

Beau (Young Beaumont, if you’re being formal) will be here shaking proper espresso martinis. Fresh baked goods and savory snacks by Meryl+Masa. A few of our favorite bottles open to taste, poured by us.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30TH • 2–4 PM.

Free to attend no RSVP needed. Just pop by, grab a martini, snag a snack, taste some w**e and hang with us.

See ya Sunday, friends ☕️🥐🍷

08/15/2026

The next time you’re in the shop, or you spot him zipping around the Mystic harbor aboard Stormdog 2 (RIP Stormdog 1), please give our beloved Ross Morin a big ol’ round of applause.

Ross Passed His WSET Level 3 Exam. WITH FRIGGIN’ MERIT. 🍾👏

Because Ross is a truly determined nut, he skipped WSET Levels 1 and 2 entirely and dove headfirst into Level 3, one of the most challenging and comprehensive w**e qualifications out there.
When Ross joined us at Spencer & Lynn two years ago, working just one day a week, he was the first to admit that he knew very little about w**e. Okay, nothing about w**e. What he did have was an enormous amount of curiosity, an eagerness to learn and a willingness to put in the work.

And put in the work he did.

Two years later:
🍷 Level 3 Award in W**es, Tasting: Pass with Merit 🍷 Level 3 Award in W**es, Theory: Pass with Distinction

That is a truly incredible achievement, and we could not be more proud of him.

Congratulations, Ross. We love ya, buddy and are so proud of you. ❤️

08/13/2026

Oh hey 👋 There’s still plenty of summer left to come say hi and hang with us in Mystic!

Need w**e for a late-summah cookout, deck hang, beach day, patio night, party, shindig or whatever else you’ve got going on? We pulled together five chillable reds that are fresh, juicy, absolutely delicious and ready for all of it. 🍷☀️

Come by and snag a bottle. Or five. Perfecto.

Need local delivery? No problemo.
Picking up dockside? Too easy, friend.
Need us to bring it straight to the boat? Easy, breezy, beautiful.

Whatever the plan, we’ve gotcha covered.

Come hang. Can’t wait to see ya. Love ya. ❤️
-(hats off to our director, dear friend and 🎥 visionary for this cinematic masterpiece)

08/04/2026

S&L ANNUAL SUMMAH PARTY VOL. 3! 🥀🍷🦪🍕💿 -
Vol. 3 means we can officially call this a tradition, right? -
Our Annual Summah Party is back, and it’s our favorite way to celebrate this community and say thank you for another year of making our little shop feel like home. On Thursday, August 20th, we’re filling 17 W. Main with seriously good pours, even better people, fresh za’, oyster freshies, snacks and vinyl, then blowing the doors off the place.

Come taste something new, grab a slice, slurp an oyster and hang with us. No speeches. No fuss. Just good bottles, good food, good records and all of you. -
🍷 WINES & LIBATIONS FROM OUR FRIENDS:
Golden
Henry Provisions
Rosenthal W**e Merchants
Golden Vines
Missing Link W**e Co.
Ungrafted Selections
Skurnik W**es & Spirits
Eder-Goodman
Cynthia Hurley W**es
Kermit Lynch W**e Merchants. -
🍕 SNACKS & PROVISIONS FROM:
Fresh za’ from Rolling Tomato Pizza
Oyster freshies from Highliner Seafood
Snacks from Mery+Masa! -
💿 VINYL SPINNING BY:
Pressing Plant
DJ Cashew AKA Chase Rowe -
📍 THE DEETS:
Thursday, August 20th | 5:30–8:30pm
17 W. Main St., Mystic
Free to attend. Just RSVP through Eventbrite, bring your people and come hang!
Plus, all w**es being poured will be 10% off for the evening. 🍾
Hit the RSVP link in our bio and we’ll see you at the shop. -
Love you all. Come party. Muah. 🥀

08/02/2026

We love grower Ch*****ne here at Spencer & Lynn, and Special Club? This is the best of the best. Pretty damn special. 🥂

Quick history, let’s get down to brass tacks. In 1971, twelve grower families formed the Club de Viticulteurs Champenois (founders like Paul Bara, Gaston Chiquet and Pierre Gimonnet among them) to prove that Ch*****ne grown and made by the same hands could stand toe to toe with the big houses trying to steal the show. They wanted a shared standard of excellence, on their own terms. Renamed the Club Trésors de Ch*****ne in 1999, it’s still tiny today, just 25 growers, the OG pros and the newcomers alike. 🍇

Each February the members taste the past vintage and vote, unanimously, on whether it’s even worth declaring. If it is, a panel tastes the still w**es blind and cuts what doesn’t measure up. Three years later they taste again, blind, and only the w**es that pass by unanimous vote earn the Club’s own bottle, embossed and based on an eighteenth century design. W**es do get rejected. No pass, no bottle.

Huge love to the importers who chase these down and get them to CT, because they love Ch*****ne as much as we do. We’re ❤️ you, Transatlantic Bubbles and Skurnik W**es & Spirits. 🙌

Three we’re popping right now 👇

🍾 2018 Grongnet Spécial Club. Cécile Grongnet’s fifth generation estate in Étoges. 55% Pinot Noir, 45% Chardonnay, no malo. Broad, vinous and generous, all orchard fruit, citrus and brioche.

🍾 2015 Grongnet Spécial Club, in Jeroboam. A JEROBOAM Their finest 2015 and three glorious liters of it. Still 55% Pinot Noir, 45% Chardonnay, still friggin delicious

🥂 2018 A. Margaine Spécial Club Blanc de Blancs. Arnaud and Mathilde Margaine in Villers-Marmery, an island of Chardonnay in a sea of Pinot Noir. Don’t sleep on this one: bright, chalky and saline, snappy lemon, green apple and absolutely incredible.

Come by, say 👋 and grab one (or all three)! Have you heard about boat delivery at S&L?

(🖤 Rest in peace, Lou)

07/24/2026

Rolling in to town for the nice weekend!? On your boat and are in need of provisions or a restock for the perfect weather? Say less, we’ve gotcha covered. Spencer & Lynn boat delivery is always available for whatever you need! Order Online and spencerandlynn.com/dockside-delivery or call us at (860) 415-8626 and we’ll get ya sorted! As always we ❤️you and can’t wait to see you soon! -Your pals at Spencer & Lynn

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17 W Main Street
Mystic, CT
06355-2509

Website

http://spencerandlynn.com/

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