Every Pour Has a Story
Welcome to the Pour Story Society — wine stories, winemaker profiles, and the people behind the pour.
A wine storytelling series by Patrick R. Dunn. The Pour Story Society gathers winemaker profiles, narrative essays, and columns — some written for outlets that couldn’t run them, some written for here from the start, all held to the same standard as anything in print.t.
A wine story doesn't always start with one outlet in mind. Some are written for a specific pitch — a magazine, a wine-industry publication, a trade site — reported and checked to the same standard regardless of where it's headed, and end up with no home when the timing's wrong or someone already ran something close. Others were never going to fit any single outlet to begin with: too personal, too regional, too far from what any one masthead or editorial calendar needs that month.
The Pour Story Society is where both kinds run. Winemaker profiles built the way an oral historian collects them. A monthly column anchored to one bottle instead of a tasting note. Every piece here is held to the same caliber as what runs in Wine Enthusiast, Wine Spectator, or Food & Wine — reported, fact-checked, no shortcuts — whether it started as a pitch to one of them or was written for this page from the start. My byline runs in Edible, Senior ResQ, and others. This work meets the same standard.
Every pour has a story. This is where I keep them.
— Patrick R. Dunn
Patrick R. Dunn
Wine & Hospitality Writer
Patrick R. Dunn is a wine and hospitality writer whose work has appeared in Edible Reno-Tahoe, Edible San Fernando Valley, and Senior ResQ Magazine, where he writes the recurring column "Wine 101." He holds a WSET Level 3 certification and trained in oral history and occupational folklore methodology under folklorist Edward "Sandy" Ives at the University of Maine — an approach he brings to the winemaker profiles, stories, and columns collected here. He lives in Sparks, Nevada.
The Pour Story Society Library
Why I’ll Always Be a Storyteller
The Pour Story Society Why I’ll Always Be a Storyteller By Patrick R. Dunn The table in West Gardiner, Maine.
Mo’s by the River: The Place That Knows Our Names
On a Thursday evening at Mo’s, someone pulls out a bottle they’ve been saving. It’s not on any wine list.
Meet the winemakers
First interviews coming soon.