Die Another Day (2002)

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Doctor: “Liver not too good. It’s definitely him, then.”

Overview: In the 20th EON James Bond film, 007 faces off with diamond tycoon Gustav Graves, who’s not everything he seems. Bond notches his highest drink total since the 1960s, and tries his first new cocktail since Thunderball.

What does Bond drink?

• As a bedraggled Bond checks into a swanky Hong Kong hotel, he asks Mr. Chang to have several items sent up, including “if there’s any left, the ’61 Bollinger.” Interestingly, when we later see the champagne sitting in a silver ice bucket, it’s merely a non-vintage bottle of Bollinger.
• During his two meetings with Raoul in Cuba, Bond has two glasses of 30-year-old Havana rum (confirmed by Raymond Benson’s novelization of Die Another Day). Bond finishes off his first glass after perusing the cover of a copy of A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. If he’d looked more closely, he would have noticed the book was written by James Bond.
• At the Hotel de los Organos bar, Bond orders a “Mojito, por favor.” As he takes a drink, he introduces himself to Jinx, and offers her a sip, saying, “Mojito? You should try it.” She takes a drink, and Bond asks “Too strong for you?” Jinx replies, “I could learn to like it.”
• When Bond and Jinx are in bed, two half-full crystal glasses of bubbly and a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket can briefly be seen as the scene fades.
• As Bond travels on a British Airways jet back to merry old England, a stewardess brings him a vodka martini (containing an olive). As she offers it to 007, the tray and drink wobble somewhat, leading him to quip, “Luckily, I asked for it shaken.” (By the way, the stewardess is played by Deborah Moore, the real-life daughter of Roger Moore. Remember him?)
• During the virtual reality sequence, we see Bond at his desk, cleaning his gun, an ice bucket, half-full crystal decanter and glass of Scotch whisky in front of him.
• During the reception in Graves’ ice palace, Bond walks up to the ice bar and tells the bartender, “Vodka martini. Plenty of ice—if you can spare it.” He sees Jinx, and gets her attention by saying “Mojito?” Bond takes a sip from his martini, but leaves it on the bar when the crowd goes outside to watch the demonstration of Icarus.

Other people’s drinks:

• The hoods sitting at the table near the Hotel de los Organos bar are drinking bottles of Heineken.
• Jinx samples Bond’s Mojito, and drinks champagne on two different occasions.
• During the scenes in M’s bar...er, office, three bottles of liquor are sitting on a coffee table. There is also a set of two decanters behind her desk.
• The ice bar in Graves’ ice palace has a lighted alcove with shelves displaying dozens of bottles of Finlandia vodka. During the scenes in the ice palace, many of the guests have glasses of champagne or martinis. One table has a bottle of champagne in a clear ice bucket presumably made of ice.
• Vlad (Graves’ technical expert) is seen in the hothouse with his feet up on a desk, smoking a cigarette and holding what appears to be a glass of vodka.
• Graves has two decanters (filled with clear liquid) in his office.

Product placement: Bollinger champagne, Finlandia vodka, and Heineken beer are all displayed prominently (all three are also mentioned in the closing credits). While it’s not specifically credited, Talisker Scotch has been seen in the past two Bond films. For more on the relationship, see the January, 2003 issue of Whisky Magazine.

By the book: Based in part on Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis (under the pen name Robert Markham). In Raymond Benson’s novelization of the film, Bond tries OB, a Korean beer.

Total: Seven. At least two glasses of Bollinger champagne, two straight rums, two vodka martinis, and a Mojito.