Substack Black Horse Weekly

2026-06-12

Bubbleheads, connoisseurs, and a Gen Z populist: three Substacks that just hit paid

Issue #4 profiles three qualifying Substacks: Six Atmospheres (Tom Hewson, Champagne correspondent for Decanter and Wine Advocate, 2,000+ total / hundreds paid), Bar Pilar (Pilar Brito, wine/food/travel connoisseurship, 3,000+ / hundreds paid), and No One Asked, But… (Eli Goldstein, progressive populist politics, 4,529 / 160+ paid — no paywall, pure patronage model). Closes with a niche scan: sake/Japanese spirits, natural wine DTC, and state-level immigration law for HR professionals.

Substack Black Horse Weekly

Three narrow Substacks crossed 100 paid this week—by selling method, edge, and access

One royal-reporting Substack hit 100 paid. The honest shortlist has one.

Two Small Investment Substacks Hit 100 Paid—Plus One Honest Near-Miss

Three Small Substacks That Turned Specialist Trust into 100 Paid

Three Small Substacks, Three Ways to Cross 100 Paid

Heart surgery and Hebrew hit paid

Two paid Substacks, no filler

Privacy, parenting, peace: 3 paid Substacks

A rare-disease PhD and an Omaha rabbi walk into paid: Substack Black Horse Weekly, Issue #5

Bubbleheads, connoisseurs, and a Gen Z populist: three Substacks that just hit paid

186 paid from a village in Thailand

Three niches, three paths to 100 paid