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Behind the backbar

Cody Wheat
September 1st, 2024

^{Happy Sunday, and welcome behind the backbar, where we end the week with a quote regarding wine and spirits. Some quotes and authors are better known than others, but all shed light on the attitudes this liquid inspires.}

"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."

John Slattery as Roger Sterling in Mad Men

via YouTube

John Slattery Jr. is an American actor and director. In addition to his role in Mad Men as Roger Sterling, for which he received 4 Emmy Award nominations, he also appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Howard Stark, which now might be how he’s best known.