Quote Originally Posted by John_Douglas View Post
That's funny, I always had the sense that it was more conversational (maybe because it comes up so often in phrases involving alcoholic beverages )
Well, it was used in all registers actually. It is still used. If you use it you would not sound odd. I have slightly exaggerated. On the other hand you can ignore partitive and you would not sound wrong either. Same grammarians could object but most of people would hardly notice the difference.