“Shaken, not stirred.” A classic line, for a classic cocktail–the preferred martini of James Bond, the debonair British secret agent immortalized in Ian Flemming’s novels.
Gin was first created as a medicine by a Dutch chemist Franciscus De La Boe in 1650. He was a professor in university of Leiden. At that time it was believed that Juniper berries contain aromatic oil that offers diuretic properties that can cure bladder & kidney ailment.
England introduction to gin came when British soldier returning from Netherland sampled the juniper-flavoured spirit & nick named it “DUTCH COURAGE”. The Dutch called it Genievre (French word for juniper) the English call it Gin.
