When romances a conquest over dinner, after dispatching a sinister Soviet agent, he is famously partial to a martini cocktail — shaken, of course, not stirred.In Ian Fleming's novels, however, and in the earliest films, 007 seduces his lovers with a more sophisticated ambrosia: vintage bubbly matured in the ancient cellars of Taittinger, the Reims champagne house.We see him in From With Love, chilling a bottle to perfection by tying it to a piece of string and dangling it into the river, as he reclines in a punt with bikini-clad Sylvia Trench. And again in Casino Royale, ordering a bottle of 1943 brut as he dines with femme fatale Vesper Lynd. Not a well-known brand, he tells her languidly as their glasses are filled, 'but it is probably the finest in the world'.
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