At Madeira Park in Atlanta, bar manager Philip Weltner's list of cocktails is built on the classics: a Negroni, a Manhattan, a Tuxedo. The through line is that almost every drink on the menu showcases fortified wine. Among this group is a lesser-known cocktail from the late 19th century called the Metropolitan . The earliest known reference to the Metropolitan is from O.H. Byron's Modern Bartenders' Guide , which was published in New York in 1884