Bond cocktails are the flavour of the bars these days. Here is a low down on a few recipes which are easy to make at home.
If there were to be a quantum of James Bond's attitude, it would surely be measured in millilitres. In keeping with Hollywood's famous star most of the bars in the city are serving Bond cocktails on their counters. What's special about them, you ask? With the smooth bite of the official black vodka and ingredients such as blood orange and champagne, the drinks define the secret agent's life - stylish and tumultuous.
007 Black Martini
Ingredients
- 50 ml Smirnoff Black vodka
- 5 ml dry vermouth
- lemon twist as garnish
Method:
- Pour the vermouth into a martini glass and fill with crushed ice and water, shake the vodka with the ice in a separate cocktail shaker.
- Pour out the contents of the martini glass, leaving on a vermouth rinse and strain in vodka.
- Garnish with a lemon twist.
Solace Score: This one is the pick of them all. The martini has oodles of style, thanks to the citrus kick and the herbal aroma of vermouth. Bond has it dry and shaken, but you can double the vermouth to 10 ml and make it 'wet'.
The Quantum of Solace
Ingredients
- 40 ml Smirnoff Black vodka
- 20 ml Campari
- 60 ml blood orange juice
- orange twist as garnish
Method:
- Pour all ingredients into an ice-filled shaker and shake well.
- Strain into a pre-chilled Martini glass, garnish with an orange twist.
Solace Score: The thriller's namesake drink looks tempting, but isn't that thrilling. The culprit, we think, is the overpowering bitterspicy flavour of Campari. The blood orange juice tastes richer than the classic version. Go for it if you like taking risks.
The Black Tie
Ingredients
- 50 ml Smirnoff Black Vodka
- 50 ml champagne
- 5 ml sugar syrup
- 6 mint leaves
Method:
- Shake the vodka, mint and sugar syrup well with crushed ice.
- Double strain into a champagne flute.
- Top with champagne while stirring continuously.
- Garnish with a mint leaf.
Solace Score: You may like this one if you like your drinks sweet and minty. If you're a purist, you'll most definitely disapprove of the champagne-and vodka combination, but this is a good experiment. Make sure there are no bits of mint left floating in the drink.
Bond with the best...drinks
- The phrase "Shaken... not stirred" first appears in the novel Diamonds Are Forever (1956), though Bond does not actually say the line until Dr. No(1958). Bond first orders a drink to be shaken in the novel Casino Royale(1953).
- Exposed to vodka during his time as a correspondent in the Soviet Union, Ian Fleming loved martinis. Andrew Lycett, a biographer, believed that Fleming liked his martinis shaken, not stirred because he thought that stirring a drink diminished its flavour.
- James Bond has almost single-handedly popularised vodka in the West, and vodka martinis everywhere else.There have been careful product placements of a variety of alcohol brands in recent Bond movies.
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