Vermouth is made with bitter wormwood, whereas Kina is made with quinine." That's because a martini must be made with vermouth. ![]() Luckily for Burger, the bottles were priced according to the quality of the label rather than the contents, and his golden Lillet's label was rather scruffy.īefore Burger opens his Kina Lillet, however, he hesitates. "Six of them looked like the bottle I just showed you, but I noticed that the seventh still had this lovely golden hue." "I saw a picture on Twitter, posted by a spirits antiques dealer in London of seven old bottles of Kina Lillet, with the caption, 'Look what we found,'" explains Burger. Whatever the reason, when it changed in 1986, the Vesper of Casino Royale ceased to exist. "This would have originally been gold, but has oxidised and decayed so far, it's now almost black."īurger believes the Kina Lillet recipe was altered to make it more stable, so that the contents wouldn't oxidise in the bottle. He pulls out a bottle of a claret-coloured liquid. In my decades-long search for a drinkable bottle of the original Kina Lillet, I found lots that looked like this." My theory is that the old version was unstable and didn't last long. ![]() "Kina Lillet is supposed to be golden in colour.
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