In The Man With The Golden Gun, Bond seems to have a preference for this now-defunct brand.
After arriving in Jamaica, Bond makes his way to the hotel at Morgan’s Harbour. While waiting to meet up with Mary Goodnight, he goes to the waterfront bar and orders a “double Walker’s de Luxe on the rocks” followed by another “with a water chaser to break it down”. Then, when Goodnight arrives, he orders her a daiquiri, and himself another double, making it three doubles at that sitting.
Later, after checking into the Thunderbird hotel, Bond calls Room Service and “ordered a bottle of Walker’s de Luxe Bourbon, three glasses, ice and for nine o’clock, Eggs Benedict.”
Bond reflected:
The best drink of the day is just before the first one (the Red Stripe didn’t count). James Bond put ice in the glass and three fingers of the bourbon and swilled it round the glass to cool it and break it down with the ice.
After picking up his book, (Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy.) Bond drinks:
He drank the bourbon down in two long draughts and felt its friendly bite at the back of his throat and in his stomach. He filled up his glass again, this time with more ice to make it a weaker drink, and sat back and thought about Scaramanga.
He then has a last drink before bed.
Two more times in the book, Bond takes a slug or two of bourbon in his room. We can assume it is from that same bottle.
can a person still purchase walkers deluxe
http://www.drinksplanet.com/i-have-a-3-old-bottles-of-walkers-deluxe-bourbon-2-diffent-b…-5355216.html
The person at the above link has 3 bottles for sale, but apparently is no longer produced. Below is a short history of the distillery.
Walker’s Deluxe Bourbon 500 ML Vintage pint rare find ! Tax seal has peeled off but bottle still sealed see pictures.
BOTTLE of WALKERS DELUXE BOURBON ESTABLISHED 1858, Distilled by Hiram Walker & Sons Co., Bardstown, KY.
Hiram Walker was the Detroit grocer who created Canadian Club whiskey in the 19th century, at his distillery across the border in Canada. When Prohibition ended in 1933, Hiram Walker and Sons, Inc., then owned by a guy named Harry Hatch, decided to reenter the newly-legal U.S. market in a big way. Their Peoria distillery made Walker’s DeLuxe and Ten High, both straight bourbons; Imperial Whiskey, a popular blend; and other Hiram Walker products.
Peoria paid off for about 35 years, until the American whiskey market suddenly tanked in the late 60s. The distillery closed in 1981. Ten High production shifted to Kentucky. Eventually, Hiram Walker was sold for parts and Ten High was acquired by Chicago’s Barton Brands.
I have a bottle of walker for sale
I am interested, where are you located?
Still have it?
I have a bottle still in the box…
Debi, do you still have the bottle in the box for sale?
Is this still available?