To adhere to the original recipe, you should smash a sugar cube and then painstakingly stir this with bitters into a paste. Life is just too short to faff...
Well, for mine, the best was Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. But if we're talking film, then the three installments of The Godfather. Maybe you'd like to nominate your greatest English trio...and you're not allowed to say Harry, Ron and Hermione.