The Most Expensive Cocktails

You’re successful, and your clothing, home, car and other lifestyle choices reflect your great taste. Then why shouldn’t your choice of drink?

To assist you with making your choice of drink reflect your choice of lifestyle, we carved out a list featuring ten of the most expensive cocktails and where you can find them around the world.

These costly concoctions are sure to up the ante for your taste buds!

Kentucky Derby Mint Julep: $1,000
Churchill Downs, KY

This $1,000 cocktail is made of Woodford Reserve Mint Julep, turbinado sugar, Louisville-grown mint and ice from a 10,000 year old glacier. But the expense isn’t as much in the ingredients as it’s in the experience of drinking out of a limited edition Tiffany & Co. silver cup while watching the two minute-long race.

Original Mai Tai: $1,270
Merchant Hotel – Belfast, Northern Ireland

This is a J. Wray & Nephew Jamaican rum sourced from the real Trader Vic Bergeon “Trader Vic” of the 1940s. Only six bottles from the original harvest remain and the Merchant Hotel owns one of them, so they charge an absurd amount of money to really rich people with cash to spare. This cocktail also includes a dash of real pirate ashes. (Not really.)

Platinum Passion: $1,500
The Duvet – New York, New York

Platinum Passion is The Duvet’s signature cocktail with a signature crazy price tag. It consists of L’Esprit de Courvoisier, a squeeze of lemon, forest berries and brown sugar, with Ruinart Champagne. We’re still trying price tag.

Ritz-Paris Sidecar: $1,670
Bar Hemingway, Ritz-Paris, France

The cocktail is a mix of Cointreau, real kicker: Cognac Champagne bottled between 1830 and 1870. In other words, this champagne has survived war, and damn it, they’re going to make sure you know it. (Mostly via your bank account.)

Sapphire Martini: $3,000
Foxwoods Resort Casino – Connecticut

The Sapphire Martini consists of Bombay sapphire gin, premium vodka, blue sugar (only for the rim of the glass) and dry vermouth. Not worth it, right? Oh yea, it also includes a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings. Ok, we guess we’re sold now.

Diamond Cocktail: $4,350
Sheraton Park Tower Hotel, London

Give or take a few hundred dollars on this cocktail. It really depends on the size of the diamond or ruby the bartender decides to drop into your liquid robbery. Ingredients are Charles Heidsieck Vintage 2001 Champagne, Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac, Angostura bitters and topped with a sugar cube.

Whiskey: $4,000
Skyview Bar – Burj Al Arab, Dubai

United Arab Emirates per glass single malt whiskey in Dubai. Only 420 bottles of this whiskey were made. Skyview owns one, and you will pay handsomely for it. Macallan single malt is a out of a Lalique crystal decanter. Even more interesting, Skyview Bar used to offer a $7,400 cocktail made from the same scotch in a gold-plated glass. But that one sold out: of course.

Martini on the Rock: $10,000
Algonquin Hotel, New York

Forget the olive, this martini comes with a giant pre-selected diamond! Touted as the “perfect way to propose” this martini requires a seventy-two hour advance arrangement and personal consultation for selecting your diamond. We gotta say, we wouldn’t be mad at all if this was how he proposed.

Ono Champagne Cocktail: $10,000
Encore Wynn, Las Vegas

This cocktail consists of ultra-rare Louis XIII Black Pearl cognac, boasting some
$90,000 a bottle. It also includes four ounces of Charles Heidsieck 1981 Champagne.

Diamond Is Forever: $22,600
Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, Japan

Drum roll…the most expensive cocktail in the world is Ritz-Carlton Japan’s ‘Diamond is Forever’ cocktail. This concoction takes the number one spot for most overpriced cocktail in the world. What you’ll get: one lucky girl!

SEPTEMBER GRAY
Proprietor of September Gray Fine Art Gallery

BIO 

Gray’s life’s work is a reflection of her enduring passion for the arts. Following a noteworthy career in the performing arts, Gray launched a successful fine art consultancy practice wherein she was celebrated for her ability to assist corporate and private collectors with articulating and executing single acquisition and long–term collecting strategies. Gray’s career in the arts and decade as an art consultant inform her role as gallerist. An avid collector, Gray has a talent for “speaking the language” of both artist and collector and a knack for connecting the gallery’s clients to works by artists whose vision and methodologies resonate with their individual tastes, complement their existing collections and honor their overall investment strategy and appetite for risk. Gray holds a B.A. in Art History from DePaul University. A committed art education advocate, Gray serves on a number of non-profit boards and is co-founder of The Gray Foundation, an organization committed to building a world of enriched life options for youth through the promotion of art and education. Gray shares art news and collection strategies in her electronic quarterly journal, The Gray Book.

https://septembergrayart.com/

JUSTIN SULIVAN, CFP
Senior Vice President Market Leader

BIO 

Justin oversees a team of professionals striving to achieve the highest level of client satisfaction. His top priority is that the team not only meets, but also exceeds the client’s expectations. Through Justin’s leadership and commitment, he helps ensure that the client benefits form a full complement of investment, trust, financial planning and private banking services to help them achieve their financial goals.

XAVIER DANIELS

BIO  

Paintings are influenced by his experiences with brotherhood at both Morehouse and as a firefighter. In creating his art, he is actively thinking about the perception of black men and attempting to be a catalyst for a different view on the black male experience. According to Daniels, the conversations happening in popular culture about black males leave them invisible in discussions about themselves. The portraits of black men Daniels creates are large in an effort to symbolically assert black male presence into those conversations. His work has been shown around the world through Almine Rech and Richard Beavers Gallery. Xavier lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.

https://xavierdaniels.com/

MARRYAM MOMA

BIO

A Tanzanian-Nigerian visual artist based in Atlanta, GA, is renowned for her prolific exhibition history. Moma’s dedication to her art has earned her prestigious residencies at The Migration Artist Residency, Atlanta, GA, and a blended residency and teaching opportunity at The Swimming HoleFoundation in Upstate NY. The Hambidge Center for the Arts awarded her a Distinguished Artist Fellowship, enriching her narrative-driven solo exhibitions like “ICONoclasts.” This showing intertwines paper cut elements to celebrate and empower revolutionary Black figures. Moma continues to innovate within her practice, expanding her presence through murals, public art installations and exhibitions including an indoor mural for Clark Atlanta universities student innovation lounge sponsored by Dell Technologies and Home depot, ICONoclasts Atlanta building-wide public installation sponsored by Dashboard and If Not Us then Who public digital art mural sponsored by A&E Atlanta. 

https://www.marryammoma.com/

DL WARFIELD

BIO

Atlanta-based artist DL Warfield, a veteran artist who has consistently proven himself a talent of the highest caliber – one who has delivered at the highest levels repeatedly throughout his life and career. Yes, many artists are talented; DL Warfield is prolific.

Warfield’s body of work proves his instinctive knowledge and understanding of pop culture and has given him a permanent place at the cutting edge of the new and next. From St. Louis to New York City, Atlanta and worldwide, his talent, skill and endless creativity have taken him to the top of his field again and again, and he intends to push forward wherever a path to artistic excellence can be forged.

The following is a snapshot of his works and clientele. 

Nike, Sprite, Heineken, Anheuser-Busch, Geffen Records, Sony Entertainment, DreamWorks, Sony Music, OutKast Inc., Universal Records, Boys & Girls Clubs, HBO, Virgin Records, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Vibe Magazine, automotive giant Ford Motor Company. He designed the branding for the City of Atlanta’s Film and Entertainment office and at the same time, His fine art has been featured at national landmarks, including the Time-Life Building in New York City, and the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY, which he loaned two original pieces for three years.

https://dlwarfield.com/

EDDIE FONTNO

BIO

A native of the Bronx, New York, is most inspired by the brilliance and uniqueness of excellence within the African American culture. The subjects of his work have all possessed a transformative greatness, which paved the way and changed the lives of many, providing a guiding light for the world around them. Fontno takes a subtle approach and focuses on that “light” to capture the detailed nuances through his usage of graphite and oil paint (black and white) that enhances the contrast between light and dark. Fontno’s never-ending quest to find truth and beauty in its most natural form is reflective in the choice of figures in his pieces; paying homage to those who have in some way shaped his view of the world and positively affected his evolution as an artist, father and man. Fontno attended the High School of Art & Design in New York, New York and Howard University in Washington, DC. His work has been displayed in the White House (Madam Vice President Kamala Harris’ private office) and the much-acclaimed October Gallery in Philadelphia, Pa. He has also been commissioned for portraits throughout the Northeast region. 

www.eddiefontno.com

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ROBERT KOOL BELL| LE KOOL CHAMPAGNE

BIO

For many years, Robert Kool Bell, Leader and Co-founder of Kool & The Gang, sought out Grand Cru Vineyards from owners that have been selling for generations and decided to work with Paul Berthelot a Multi-Vintage producer since 1884. Voila The Celebration Champagne was born! 

https://lekoolchampagne.com

EDDIE FONTNO

BIO

A native of the Bronx, New York, is most inspired by the brilliance and uniqueness of excellence within the African American culture. The subjects of his work have all possessed a transformative greatness, which paved the way and changed the lives of many, providing a guiding light for the world around them. Fontno takes a subtle approach and focuses on that “light” to capture the detailed nuances through his usage of graphite and oil paint (black and white) that enhances the contrast between light and dark. Fontno’s never-ending quest to find truth and beauty in its most natural form is reflective in the choice of figures in his pieces; paying homage to those who have in some way shaped his view of the world and positively affected his evolution as an artist, father and man. Fontno attended the High School of Art & Design in New York, New York and Howard University in Washington, DC. His work has been displayed in the White House (Madam Vice President Kamala Harris’ private office) and the much-acclaimed October Gallery in Philadelphia, Pa. He has also been commissioned for portraits throughout the Northeast region.

Website: www.eddiefontno.com