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Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half of Kina Lillet. Shake it over ice, then add a thin slice of lemon peel.
— Casino Royale · 2006
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A character-establishing order: Bond does not take the menu, he writes it. The precision, down to an aperitif nobody can buy any more, shows a man who sizes up a room before a card is dealt. It is still the recipe bartenders get asked for, and the vanished Kina Lillet turned it into a small piece of geek lore about rebuilding the drink today.
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In context
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In Casino Royale (2006), during the poker tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro, Bond folds a hand and asks for the barman. He orders a dry martini, stops, and gives his own recipe instead. Fellow players Tomelli, Infante and Felix Leiter each ask for the same, and a sour Le Chiffre asks whether anyone wants to play poker now. The drink is the one Fleming's Bond invents in the 1953 novel and names after Vesper Lynd.
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- Wikiquote: Casino Royale (2006 film)Bartender at the poker tableReference checked
- Wikipedia: Vesper (cocktail)Lead and HistoryReference checked
- Wikipedia: Casino Royale (2006 film)PlotReference checked
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