they drink st raphaels a lot
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/292839 the reference to "the 1949 Esquire Drink Book, " is evocative enough. I havent drunk that, I am a very dry gin martini person.
Cocktails (see speakeasies etc etc ad nauseam) have, like poker, been rather ruined by a phase of ubiquity, where the barman gives you an annoying lecture on your ignorance, rather than a drink.