Aaron Goldfarb digs into the world of “dusty hunters,” who search remote liquor stores, estate sales, and some truly unlikely venues for vintage spirits. Some simply want to collect them, others want to drink them, but seemingly every practitioner of the trade is a character. Goldfarb captures their quirks and passions with vivid prose. He even succumbs to the instinct himself. The book begins by concentrating on American whiskey, long the most active market for vintage spirits, but widens its focus to other tipples and offers primers on each. Goldfarb also hones in on the subtext of these quests: the prospect of liquid time travel, of sampling the literal taste of history, of learning that, in the end, even the dust has value. A rollicking, engaging, and ultimately moving book.