Oscar Wilde is the thinking mans drinker. While the less educated marvel at the drinking exploits of the likes of George Best, Liam Gallagher, and Oliver Reed those with a passion for the English language adore Wilde’s boozy banter. He loved to combine heavy drinking with heavy conversation and would drink and talk with anyone who cared to listen. Wilde lived life to the full enjoying the earthly pleasures of the flesh to the full. Sadly the conservative society in which he lived punished his homosexuality and Oscar was sentenced to the maximum punishment of two years imprisonment and hard labor at Reading Goal prison. Oscar’s life was productive and pleasurable, but short. He died of meningitis on November 30, 1900 and was buried in Bagneux, his alleged last words whilst dying in his hotel room: "This wallpaper is terrible - one of us will have to go."

So a raise a glass of the Green Fairy to Oscar Wilde for he is truly a Top Drunk!