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Behind the backbar

Cody Wheat
June 30th, 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.}

“A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?”

From the journal of Oscar Wlide, while he toured America in 1882

Oscar Wlide, taken during his travels in the US

Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. While he wrote many short fiction stories, poems, and essays, he is arguably best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only full length novel.