François Monti

The Path

François Monti began in 2010 as a blogger at Bottoms Up, and that first platform set the terms of the rest of the work: close observation, a disciplined tone, and a steady focus on cocktails. Blogging gave him a format for sharpening an editorial voice before the move into broader professional writing. The line from blog to author and journalist is a practical one, built through repetition, subject knowledge, and attention to the bar world as a field with its own codes. Today, he is an author and journalist specializing in cocktail writing, and the role fits the work rather than the other way around. Alongside that, he is director of Amargueria, a consultant, and academy chair of World's 50 Best Bars. Those positions place François Monti in writing, industry analysis, and curation at once, with each role reinforcing the same core subject: cocktails and the structures that shape how they are understood.

The Work Today

Based in Madrid, François Monti works as an author and journalist focused on cocktail writing. Madrid is simply the working base; the subject remains the larger constant. The writing stays anchored in cocktails, but the frame extends to the culture around them, which is where much of the meaning in drink writing is made and read.

Signature

Bottoms Up is the reference point here. As a signature, it marks the start of François Monti’s public voice in cocktail writing, and it still it established the habits that followed: specificity, observation, and a clear attachment to the subject.

In Their Words “I've changed careers to specialize in writing about cocktails, both as an author and a journalist.” “My name is François Monti. I'm based in Madrid.”

Acclaim

He has said, "I've changed careers to specialize in writing about cocktails, both as an author and a journalist."