Thirsty Work

Speaking of quantifying the beverages consumed by James Bond, Futility Closet has an excerpt from Ben MacIntyre’s 2008 book, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond, listing all 46 drinks Bond consumed in Fleming’s 11th novel, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service:

According to one Bondologist, these include: unspecified quantities of Pouilly-Fuissé white wine, Taittinger champagne, Mouton Rothschild ’53 claret, calvados, Krug champagne, three bourbons with water, four vodka and tonics, two double brandy and ginger ales, two whisky and sodas, three double vodka martinis, two double bourbons on the rocks, at least one glass of neat whisky, a flask of Enzian schnapps, Marsala wine, the better part of a bottle of fiery Algerian wine (served by M), two more Scotch whiskies, half a pint of I.W. Harper bourbon, a Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whisky with water, on the rocks, a bottle of Riquewihr wine, four steins of Franziskaner beer, and a double Steinhäger gin.

★ Wednesday, 28 October 2015