Five voices worth reading.
Not a filter. Not a tag. Columnists — each on their own cadence, each with their own beat. Subscribe to any one, or all of them at once via The Last Pour.
The Sommelier
Bottles worth buying, and the reasons why.
Fifteen years on the floor, four of them running a list she was finally allowed to write herself. She files on what is drinkable now rather than what scores well, which means a lot of Loire, a lot of Jura, and an ongoing grudge against oak.
The Bartender
Specs that work, and bar rooms that earn the walk.
Came up on volume — three hundred covers a night, no muddler in sight — and still measures everything. Writes cocktails as specs first and stories second, on the theory that you can't argue with two ounces.
The Collector
Rare bottles, provenance, and what age actually does.
Keeps a cellar book going back to 1998 and will tell you, unprompted, that most of what people call collecting is just shopping. Files on auctions, allocation, counterfeit detection, and the quiet pleasure of drinking the thing instead of holding it.
The Traveler
Hotel bars, lounges, and drinking your way through a city.
Files from whichever bar has a working outlet. Believes the hotel bar is the last honest public room in a city, and that you learn more about a place in ninety minutes on a bar stool than in a week of restaurants.
The Host
Drinks for a table you set yourself.
Cooks for eight most weekends and has opinions about ice. Writes for the person who wants the evening to work — batch it early, chill it properly, put the bottle on the table and sit down with your guests.