Bottled is a reminder that there are great things to drink all over the world — you’ve just got to know who to ask.

The algorithm serves us all the same stuff. But we don’t drink the same, we’re all a little bit different.

So yes, you can find a clarified milk punch cocktail in Brisbane and in Bangalore — 10 years ago you couldn’t. Good drinks are everywhere today. But at the best bars in those cities — at the ones making great drinks — they’re using different ingredients because that’s what grows there, and that’s what their city tastes like.

And there are stories you won’t find in your social feed. Stories you only get from talking to people in the thick of it.

That’s what you’ll find in Bottled: passionate people in drinks scenes around the world, people possessed of knowledge and expertise — people who want to shout about the good things to drink where they are.

In Issue 01:

• We get a Hunter Valley-inspired drink at The Waratah, Sydney;

• Tokyo Confidential rounds second base in The List;

• In Neighbourhoods, Cara Devine explores Fitzroy in Melbourne;

• Wine writer Samantha Payne asks, just how handcrafted is that drinks brand you’re buying?

• Lorenzo Antinori offers a taste of Rome in the heart of Hong Kong through the design of Bar Leone;

• We hear about the bright spots in Priyanka Blah’s Bangalore, India;

• Samuel Ng says: this is Sinagpore’s time;

• We profile Ryan Chetiyawardana’s creative (studio) pursuits, and get his outsider’s insider guide to Amsterdam;

• Philip Duff reports from Yerevan Cocktail Week in Armenia;

• and a lot more.

They are all stories you’ll only find in print, Bottled.