The Porter Beer Bar

You walk into one of Atlanta's most beloved beer bars expecting 200 taps and a wine list that's basically an afterthought — and then you clock an ancestral pét-nat from Penedès and an orange wine from Chile sitting right there on the menu. The Porter has no business having a wine list this interesting, and yet here we are.

Ten labels is a short list, but whoever curated this thing was paying attention. The geographic spread alone is impressive for a beer bar: Austria, Portugal, Italy, Washington State, Argentina, Chile, and Spain all represented without a single Napa Cab or Sonoma Chard in sight. Division Nouveau Nouveau Gamay from Columbia Valley is the kind of low-intervention pick that signals someone behind the bar has actually been to a wine shop in the last five years. The Vina Echeverria orange wine from Curicó and the Can Sumoi ancestral pét-nat are genuinely adventurous additions that most dedicated wine bars in Atlanta don't bother stocking. The only gap: if you want something big and structured for a red-meat night, the Gota Prunus from Dão and the Kind Stranger Cab are your only moves.

Everything on the bottle list is available by the glass, which means the entire ten-wine program is pourable by the stem — a rare and appreciated approach. Prices land between $10 and $15 a glass, which is honest money for this caliber of wine in Atlanta. Rotation isn't confirmed, but the list reads current enough (2024 and 2025 vintages already on) that someone is clearly refreshing it.