Reverting to the original recipe from Fleming’s first Bond book, Craig’s 007 ordered a drink he dubbed the Vesper - a hybrid martini that is three parts gin and one part vodka, mixed with a half-ounce of Kina Lillet. The shaken vodka martini era in Bond films lasted almost 25 years, until Daniel Craig took the role of Bond in 2006’s Casino Royale.

Snyder goes on to note that in Craig’s first Bond movie, Casino Royale, 007 went from drinking vodka martinis to a Vesper Martini: When asked by a colleague what he’s drinking, a foggy Bond can’t respond the bartender answers for him. this Friday), 007 sits alone in the first class compartment of an international flight, slamming martinis to forget his worries. In a scene in the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace (out in Europe, and premiering in the U.S. And what was Bond drinking? A Gordon’s gin based martini variant. In fact, Daniel Craig’s Bond is too drunk to even tell his friend what he’s been drinking the bartender on a trans-Atlantic flight has to do it for him. Sadly, the one scene where Bond finds himself ordering a drink in a bar, he’s most definitely not drinking sazeracs.

I went to see Quantum of Solace today, expecting to see the sazerac elevated to new heights in American pop culture. Via Jeff Fulcher at Cocktail Revolution, I saw that on the eve of its UK release, Rachel Dixon of The Guardian reported that Bond was forsaking the vodka martini in favor of a sazerac in the new movie. Last month I posted on a piece of advance news about 007’s drink of choice in the latest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace.

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