About TableSet
Built by a sommelier, for the people who run wine programs.
Nico Antuna Cooper
Founder & Product Developer
Nico is a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers and holds the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines with Distinction. He has spent more than five years in wine service, sales, distribution and consulting, including an advisory role with Altair Imports, and he designs and writes TableSet himself, from El Paso, Texas.
He also holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and teaches as adjunct faculty, which shows in the product: a wine list is a piece of writing, read at the table, and TableSet treats it as one. The type, the spacing and the order on the page matter as much as the prices.
Credentials
Trained on the floor and in the classroom.
Certification
Certified Sommelier
Court of Master Sommeliers
Wine education
WSET Level 2, with Distinction
Wine & Spirit Education Trust
Experience
Five years and more
Service, sales, distribution and consulting, including Altair Imports
Academic
MFA, Creative Writing
Adjunct faculty
Why TableSet
The list and the cellar, in one place.
Most wine programs keep the list in a design file and the count in a spreadsheet, and the two drift apart by the end of the week. A wine sells out and is still printed; a new arrival waits for someone with time to redo the layout. TableSet comes out of that work: the list is typed on the page it prints on, the count sits beside it, and the Wine Library is curated by a sommelier, so a wine goes on the list with its producer, region and grape already in place.
It is built to be quick and plain: no framework, nothing to install, and nothing on screen that a service does not need.
Contact
Questions, ideas and wine lists welcome.
Write to [email protected] about TableSet. His wine writing is at nicovino.wine, and he posts on Instagram as @nico_vino_.
Photo Credit: Lene Melendez