(Decanter) - With the new James Bond film, Spectre, released this week, Decanter steps beyond product positioning on the big screen to discover what James Bond really drank in Ian Fleming's original novels. Clue: it wasn't just Bollinger and Dry Martinis. 

The Dry Martini, shaken not stirred, is often considered the James Bond drink of choice, but Ian Fleming’s Bond certainly also had a taste for fine wines and Champagne.

Below are some of his favourites from the books, as the world prepares to see Daniel Craig playing Bond for the fourth time following a global premiere in London this week.

Champagne

Bond declared Taittinger Blanc de Blanc brut 1943 as ‘probably the finest Champagne in the world’ in Casino Royale, the original James Bond novel first published in 1953. But, his taste proved somewhat fickle. In Moonraker, published only two years later, Bond says that Tattinger was ‘only a fad of mine’. He drank Dom Pérignon instead.

Bordeaux

Goldfinger helps to widen Bond’s drinking taste when it comes to wine by serving him the Pommery 1950 vintage Champagne. He also introduces 007 to Château Mouton Rothschild 1947 and Piesporter Goldtropfchen 1953, Riesling from Germany’s Mosel area. Bond develops a taste for Mouton Rothschild, drinking the 1953 in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Fleming’s James Bond also enjoys drinking Chianti on trains across Europe; in From Russia with Love he drinks it on the Orient Express. He then drinks it on the Laguna Express to Venice in For Your Eye’s Only, where he spills it on the tablecloth.