Here’s every bottle of champagne James Bond ever uncorked
From a chilled pint of Pink Pommery ’50 to his favoured Taittinger Blanc de Blanc Brut 1943, these are the bottles of bubbly that made Bond
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James Bond is
not a man of simple tastes. His suits are tailored. His cars are super. He’s jetted off to more exotic locales than we even care to list. And that’s before we even come to his
actual tastes. Thanks to a refined palate (and a presumably bottomless MI6 expense account) 007 enjoys pricey whiskey, Vesper Martinis and that ultimate bubbly indicator of wealth; champagne.
Fleming, Ian Fleming: How World War II Inspired the Creation of James Bond
By the war’s end, Fleming had accumulated a vast store of ideas, impressions, and incidents he was to use in his James Bond novels.
Here s What You Need to Know: The adventures of a British Intelligence officer during World War II fueled the creation of the mythical spy James Bond.
Some accounts of Ian Fleming’s life make it seem that only at the age of 44, as an antidote to the shock of finally agreeing to get married, did he suddenly commit himself to the unplanned task of creating his James Bond novels. In actuality, he had declared his interest in writing thriller-type books as early as the age of 20, when he confided to his friend Ivar Bryce that this was his lifetime goal. Even that early he had begun collecting incidents and experiences that he could later weave into his 13-book saga of James Bond.
Released on Dec. 29, 1965,
Thunderball was the fourth James Bond movie. But it was supposed to be the first, and numerous attempts to film it spanned 40 years, involving many contributors and several court battles.
James Bond s creator, novelist Ian Fleming, had wanted to bring James Bond to the big screen not long after the character s debut in 1953 s
Casino Royale. But by the end of the 50s, the author had secured nothing for Bond except an episode of
Climax! that turned the character into an American and a couple of scripts for an unmade television series.
While many individuals would contribute in some way to the Bond series coming to film, the two who most shepherded it along were Fleming s old friend Ivar Bryce and a hotshot Irishman named Kevin McClory. The two worked together on McClory s directorial debut, a sentimental melodrama called