About Thirst Behavior

Thirst Behavior is a weekly wine column about taste and the way we perform it. It covers natural wine culture in and around the Hamptons, but also stretches into service gossip, aesthetic rituals, and the semiotics of ordering a funky red.

Written from a post-service-core perspective, it blends industry fluency with cultural commentary—less “pairing notes,” more anthropology of the wine bar.

You’ll find bottle recs, dispatches from the floor, and essays on what it means to drink with style (or without it).

Subscribe if you’ve ever:

• Felt unqualified to talk about wine at a fancy dinner

• Dated someone who works in hospitality

• Secretly judged a friend’s wine order (or had yours judged)

• Wanted to say “I like natty wine” without sounding like a narc

Thirst Behavior is here to help you make sense of what’s in the glass and what’s behind it.