This is what Substack is about, baby - an (anonymous) ex-con writes about the movies he missed while locked away while connecting their themes intelligently to the criminal justice system.

- Dave Baxter

Incredibly in depth dives on wine topics. I learn something new every single post!

- Dave Baxter

Smart, insightful work that looks for the reasons to love and celebrate different movies, tv, books, and comics. His lack of cynicism is refreshing!

- Dave Baxter

The man who wrote the literal book on Orange Wine, still writing about food and beverage culture and he is fantastic.

- Dave Baxter

One of the first Substacks I followed that talked at length about different wine grapes, styles, regions, and makers, and helped show me the way to talk about these things in a newsletter without turning it into a textbook!

- Dave Baxter

Jessica is a comic writer, novelist, and publisher. Her Substack chronicles the story of a different monster every week - always well researched, imaginative, unique, and gorgeously written I always carve out an hour some evening when nothing else is demanding my time to read her latest.

- Dave Baxter

Wine and Movies! We're not the only wackadoodles trying to pull that off! Plus weekly wine industry news via audio podcast. Must follow.

- Dave Baxter

I initially took note of their unique and thoughtful attempt to reimagine the 100-point scoring system and apply this new approach to all their wine reviews. Add to this that they're authentically funny and can also write at length about wine topics without ever feeling heavy or "too much" and this is a go-to wine Substack to follow.

- Dave Baxter

Joel is the first Master of Wine to hold residence in the USA. I highly recommend browsing through his articles to find subjects that most interest you - he writes in depth and at length and there is gold in them hills.

- Dave Baxter

It's Shitty Wine Memes! On Substack! If you don't follow them yet, you need to fix that.

- Dave Baxter

Fred is a comic artist, painter, muralist, and political cartoonist and while he's too modest to say so, he writes excellent journal-like entries on his life and artistic process.

- Dave Baxter

Aubrey Sitterson is one of the best current crop of comic writers and regularly breaks down the craft in eye-opening intellectual ways.

- Dave Baxter

Portuguese wine expertise, frameable visual tasting notes (no, really), wine region education, wine/album/recipe triple pairings (no, really) how many "no, reallys" do you need???

- Dave Baxter

Measured, expertly critical takes on different media. Noah is also one of my favorite writers on politics and culture, AND he's a pretty fantastic poet.

- Dave Baxter

Long time wine marketer now one of the foremost authorities on alcohol distribution laws in America and why they need to change.

- Dave Baxter

Ex-host of THE WINE SHOW and one of the funniest wine Substackers out there in terms of peppered in humor and cheeky voice, though Joe's content is deadly serious and insightful underneath that surface.

- Dave Baxter

If you aren't reading Kelly's BLACK CLOAK yet, I don't know why we'd ever talk.

- Dave Baxter

I was already a fan of Jason thanks to his book GODFORSAKEN GRAPES which covers rare, largely forgotten varieties. I was thrilled to then find him here on Substack, and looks like 2025 is going to be a big year for his publication!

- Dave Baxter