Cocktails always play leading roles in parties, whether it is a Nobel Prize award ceremony or a traditional hen-party organized before the wedding. In pubs, bars and hotels these mixes receive great attention by tourists as well. There are lots of cocktails made in the world, but there are some institutions specializing in the creation of exclusive luxury cocktails with unique combination of ingredients, some of which are not even edible.
We’ll go from low to high! You choose which one!
Truffle Martini – $100
You will have to go to London and visit Rocco Forte’s Browns Hotel to try this exotic cocktail. The main highlight of the mix based on the combination of chocolate liquor and martini, is the truffle, which is soaked in vodka for 48 hours.
Ritz Sidecar – $515
This cocktail served in the Hemingway bar of hotel Ritz in Paris will soon no longer be possible to try. It is a classic mix of Cointreau, brandy and lemon juice was unlikely to be something unique, if not the rare cognac 1830 Ritz Reserve used for a cocktail, from which there are only a few bottles in all over the world. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the grapes from which it is made of were collected before the invasion of phylloxera, a pest that destroyed valuable varieties of grapes in France in 60’s before the last century.
Magie Noir – $550
A wonderful cocktail made from cognac, champagne and liqueur Crème deMure is served in club Umbaba located in London’s West End. But the zest lies in the unique supplements to the mix: lemon sorgos; litchi and bark of the African Yohimbe tree are added in the glass. The extract of the latter is used long time and happily by the physicians as a stimulator of male potency. Cocktail is served in crystal glasses with a stick with gold plating.
High Roller Martini – $1000
You can enjoy a cocktail for 1000 dollars in the restaurant called Capital Grille in Las Vegas. However, such a high cost of the mix is due not to the unique taste, but to merely two facts. First, half of the money from the sale of the drink goes to a fund aid to the starving around the world. And secondly, ring with diamonds is threaded on a cocktail stick, decorating the glass. Though it is not too large.
Mai Tai – $1400
Merchant Hotel in Dublin offers its guests to enjoy cocktails on the basis of unique Jamaican rum, of which there are only six bottles worldwide. They say that a bottle of unique rum is stored under heavy guard in vault bar specially selected for it.
Platinum Passion – $1500
Prepared on the basis of expensive cognac L’Esprit de Courvoisier, a cocktail will please taster with light notes of its constituent passion fruit syrup, wild honey, sugar cane and wild berries, seasoned with a drop of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Another important ingredient in the mix is the Champagne Ruinart. And this entire taste splendor is given in a tall glass with the orchid floating inside the flower.
Diamond Cocktail – $4350
In a cocktail recipe, served in London’s Piano Bar, includes the cognac Remy Martin Louis XII, worth about $2000 per bottle, Champagne Charles Heidsieck Vintage 2001, three drops of bitter and a cube of sugar. Total price of the mix, which can reach 9000 dollars, depends on what “stone” the bartender will throw in a glass. The most “budget” option is a 0.6-carat diamond.
Martini on The Rock – $10000
Ladies, who tried the cocktail say it perfectly quenches the thirst. And really, that can be elegant and refined than cold martini, flickering in the glass at the bottom of which stands the pyramid of a half-carat diamond. If you are tortured with thirst – it’s time to go to the bar in New York Algonquin Hotel.
