WW·012004Sideways
The Sideways Flight
The wine movie, poured in order.
$125 / flight
Casino Royalethe wine pairing
007's Champagne and the train-dinner Bordeaux, tuxedo optional.
The bottles
Poured in the order the film pours them.
1
Champagne Bollinger · Special Cuvée Brut
Aÿ, France
ChampagneOn screen
On screen — Bond's house Champagne across the franchise, poured in Casino Royale as he settles into the high-stakes game. Serve it colder than your poker face.
Toasted brioche, hazelnut, orchard fruit; a bead fine enough to wear a tuxedo.
2
Château Fombrauge · Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
Bordeaux, France
RedInspired
The match — The dining-car scene: Vesper reads Bond over a bottle of Angélus 1982, a Saint-Émilion that now trades for four figures. This is its neighbor, from the same village, for dinner-on-a-train money.
Dark plum, cocoa, cedar; velvet with shoulders.
The Bond Night
Bond has ordered Bollinger on screen for over fifty years, the longest-running pour in cinema. Casino Royale does its character work through drinks: the Vesper is invented at the poker table, the Champagne travels to Venice, and on the night train to Montenegro, Bond and Vesper size each other up over a bottle of Château Angélus '82.
Sip along
Little cues so the bottles land with the scenes.
1
Pour the Champagne — the gun barrel. Obviously.
2
Open the Bordeaux — the train to Montenegro.
3
Last glass of each — “The name's Bond.” Roll credits.
