When James Bond (Roger Moore) dines with Aristotle Kristatos (Julian Glover) in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Agent 007 orders a bottle of ‘Theotoky Aspro’ (Aspro is Greek for white).
Kristatos: "May I suggest a white Robola wine from Cephalonia, my home place?"
In No Time To Die (2021), in the office of M (Ralph Fiennes) we can see vintage silver-plated coasters.
One coaster is seen most prominently when M puts a Royal Doulton Highclere Tumbler on the coaster during the small gathering for James Bond in one of the final scenes of the film.
A bottle of Blackwell Black & Gold Rum can be spotted in Bond's Jamaican house in a promotional photo from the No Time To Die set - and we can now confirm that in the film James Bond drinks the rum while talking to Nomi (Lashana Lynch).
Jim Beam has two James Bond connections (if you don't count that they share the same initials JB!): Sean Connery appeared in Jim Beam ads and Timothy Dalton as James Bond drinks Jim Beam Bourbon whiskey in The Living Daylights (1987).
Shaken explores James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s writings on the pleasures of drinking, the stories behind the Bond phenomenon and drinks inspired by 007 and his creator.
A new authorised James Bond cocktail book, Shaken: Drinking with James Bond and Ian Fleming, will be released on 6th September 2018 in the UK and October 2nd in the USA.
When we think of martini, we usually think of the (vodka) martini cocktail that Bond consumes regularly. But the brand Martini, a vermouth, is also often seen in Bond films and mentioned in Bond novels, as part of the martini cocktail.
Now any reader of the Bond novels, any viewer of the movies knows that James Bond maintains a dangerous lifestyle. Bullets, bombs, barracuda, sharks and other creepy crawly monsters under the sea, missiles, poisoned knives, centipedes, and other evil wicked things all conspire to send double o seven to double o heaven.
But one clear and present danger often ignored is what Bond eats.
In the movie Octopussy (1983), Roger Moore as James Bond is offered a beer while being a passenger in a Volkswagen Beetle. The beer is Altenmünster beer, from the Allgäuer Brauhaus brewery in the region of Bavaria, Germany.
In the movie The Living Daylights (1987), M asks James Bond (Timothy Dalton) to pick up a hamper at Harrods, as a gift for General Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé). Bond brings the basket to Bladen's Safe House.
A self-published book about James Bond’s drinks will compete against the best in the world after judges of the 2014 World Gourmand Awards announced it the UK winner of the cocktails category.
“The waiter brought the Martinis, shaken and not stirred, as Bond had stipulated, and some slivers of lemon peel in a wine glass. Bond twisted two of them and let them sink to the bottom of his drink.”
James Bond’s alcohol consumption may explain why he prefers his martinis “shaken, not stirred” say researchers in the Christmas edition of The BMJ, the British Medical Journal, this week.
In the movie SkyFall (2012), Gareth Mallory (played by Ralph Fiennes) and M (Judi Dench) both drink Courvoisier VSOP cognac. First Mallory pours both himself and M a glass in his office, and later M pours herself a glass in her apartment. A bottle of Courvoisier can also be spotted in the bar where Bond drinks the 'scorpion' shot.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of 007’s appearance on screen and the Bollinger / James Bond partnership, Champagne Bollinger launched a limited edition special presentation box. The box includes a bottle of Bollinger La Grande Année 2002. This is a limited box, currenly not available anymore and hard to find.
In SkyFall, Q (Ben Whishaw) uses a Wild & Wolf Q mug. The mug shows a letter (Q) and a number (10) which refers to the value of the letter in the game Scrabble.
Heineken has been a partner of the James Bond film franchise since Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), but James Bond himself only drinks the Dutch beer in the latest films SkyFall (2012) and SPECTRE (2015).
During the 1960s spy boom, many products including clothing and accessories, were branded with James Bond or 007. One of the more fascinating items is the James Bond's 007 Special Blend.
Heineken today announced that it has extended its 15 year partnership with the James Bond franchise. It will introduce an unprecedented and innovative global marketing campaign to support the launch of the new film SkyFall.
'007 On the Rocks: A Guide to the Drinks of James Bond' is a practical easy-to-use guidebook covering the unique world of James Bond libations. It contains every aspect of amateur mixology a Bond enthusiast needs to know.
After recovering a microchip from 003's body in the pre-title sequence of A View To A Kill, James Bond can relax in the iceberg submarine, enjoying the best Beluga caviar, Stolichnaya Vodka and Kimberly Jones.
Bond drinks Jack Daniel's in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Ian Fleming, 1963), the novel You Only Live Twice (Ian Fleming, 1964) and in the movie GoldenEye (1995).
In the movies The World is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002) James Bond is drinking whisky at several occasions. In both films, Talisker was providing the whisky. M enjoys a glass of Talisker Whisky in both films as well.
