007 Drink: Pol Roger champagne

Drink: Pol Roger champagne
Bond book appearances: 

Forever and a Day (2018). Bond drinks a glass of Pol Roger champagne at the party in Nice, France.

Scorpius (1988). Bond drinks Pol Roger ´71 at a small wedding party of Bond and Harriett Horner, which villain Vladimir Scorpius is organizing in Hilton Head, USA. Horner is a godchild of Scorpius.

Experience of 007 Travelers: At home

“The party was already in full swing. There was a jazz band playing, white-jacketed waiters somehow finding a way through the guests. Bond was offered and accepted a glass of champagne as he made his way up and sipped it approvingly, recognising the delicate flavour and quiet effervescence of a 1934 Pol Roger. The house had been designed so that the windows slid completely out of the way, removing any definition of what was inside and what was out. One moment, Bond felt grass beneath his feet. The next he was on carpet, surrounded by artworks hung and lit with the sort of care that suggested the multimillion-pound auction houses from where they had undoubtedly come. The furniture was aggressively modern. The guests seemed to have been selected for their fashion sense, their looks and their youth. This was a crowd of people for whom appearance was everything. They glittered a little too self-consciously as they stood and chatted in French and English, at the same time plucking caviar on blinis, lobster tails and smoked salmon from silver trays.

Anthony Horowitz: “Forever and a Day” (2018)

“A small party took place in a large anteroom, where they were joined by all the Meek Ones present. There were toasts in champagne – a Pol Roger ´71, one of the great vintages – and good wishes, followed by short speeches. Harriett looked at Bond with admiration in her eyes, and he realised that, while he could never truly fall in love with this girl, he did care greatly for her. Certainly his sense of chivalry told him he must do everything in his power to see that she did not suffer.”

John Gardner: “Scorpius” (1988)

Pol Roger is a producer of champagne. The brand is still owned and run by the descendants of Pol Roger. Located in the town of Épernay in the Champagne region, the house annually produces around 110,000 cases of Champagne. Read more here (Wikipedia).

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