For gin, I’m more of a Bombay or Beefeater guy but Gordon’s doesn’t exactly break the bank so I got that as well while I was on my special trip to get Lillet Blanc at BevMo.Īll in all I’d rather just have a stirred dry gin martini or a dirty martini but then again I’m not a spy. The cocktail is a mash-up of the classic gin martini and the vodka martini with a twist.

In Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Casino Royale, titled Vesper Cocktail, a description of the cocktail was first described in 1953. Also, this stuff is rocket fuel, it doesn’t need cinchona bark, it’s 3 parts gin 1 part vodka! I can’t imagine James Bond could stand after 5 let alone 20 before going on a high speed chase in a Aston Martin DB5.Īnother thing we used that James would not have is Tito’s Vodka because, well, that’s what we had on hand. The Vesper is the signature drink of James Bond, and has been featured in several of the Ian Fleming novels and films. To be 100% up front and honest we didn’t use the cinchona infused liquor, partly because I didn’t want to do a science experiment just to get shitfaced like 007. The other circumstances were because she was caught up in an unwinnable situation, so she did the best she could with what she was facing. The Vesper Martini is a great, amazing cocktail, a variation of the classic Dry Martini, invented by writer Ian Fleming in the novel Casino Royale of 1953. In Casino Royale, Bond orders a dry martini in a champagne goblet, before correcting. It’s because Vesper bargained for his release. The Vesper martini, in contrast, is a far more traditional martini in the sense that it has a gin base. Add gin, vodka, Lillet, and the cinchona infusion to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. At one point in Casino Royale this is stated (near the end), when Bond is asked why Le Chiffre didn’t outright kill him in the torture scene.2-3 Dashes Cinchona Infused Liquor (to taste).

I’d take a nicer picture but my lenses aren’t awesome, also this was my second Vesper in… we’re lucky it’s in focus.

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