Sander estimates that Churchill consumed 42,000 bottles of bubbly in his lifetime and presents the anecdote that while staying at an Italian villa owned by British Field Marshal Harold Alexander, Churchill and a half-dozen family members drained 96 bottles from the owner’s Champagne cellar in under three weeks.
While the wartime leader’s association with gin proves to be faulty, his spectacular thirst for Champagne is well-documented and legit. She did learn that Churchill only partook of martinis while visiting FDR, who was known for mixing a questionable iteration with plenty of olive brine (which you may attempt - if you dare - courtesy of an included recipe). “As a devoted gin martini drinker myself, I really was crushed to learn that wasn’t his preferred drink,” Sander says. But the truth is that Churchill was not disposed to cocktails generally and did not drink gin at all - a revelation that distressed the author. You’ve likely heard the chestnut that Churchill made his martinis “in the presence of an unopened bottle of vermouth,” or some other variation on an ultra-dry, gin-exclusive preparation. Compared to the doorstopper-sized tomes regularly published about the former prime minister, this new work is a relative breeze at just under 150 pages-close to half of which are devoted to cocktail recipes inspired by Churchill’s life, drinking companions and favored watering holes.Ĭhurchill drank martinis only for diplomatic reasons In Churchill: A Drinking Life, authors Gin Sander and Roxanne Langer find that neither answer is completely correct.
to shaking a bottle of vermouth in the direction of France merely romantic myth? Or was he really the world’s most functional alcoholic? This begs the question: Are all the booze anecdotes about Winston Churchill’s drinking, from whisky sodas in the early a.m. But Winston Churchill managed to become an icon of imbibery while leading his nation to victory in WWII, sounding the alarm on Soviet communism and serving twice as prime minister (although we can certainly debate his overall legacy). Famous figures known for their liquid appetites tend to flame out early: Think Ernest Hemingway, F.
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