Salvatore Calabrese Creates The Worlds Most Expensive And Oldest Cocktail "The Legacy"

The accolade "Worlds Most Expensive Cocktail" has been held by various different locations, and seems to repeatedly change hands from year to year, the most recent holder of the title was the skyview bar in the Burj Al'Arab Hotel in Dubai, with the 27.321 cocktail costing £4,632 per glass. 

It is important to make a distinction here between actual most expensive cocktails and novelty "most expensive cocktails".  The novelty types are for example the Movida Nightlubs "flawless" costing £35,000 which includes an 11 carat flawless diamond, these give "extras" which hike the cost up, and the ingredients while unconventional, are not exceptional, these genuine top cocktails, the ones that make it into the Guiness Book of Records contain alcohol and nothing more.

Now Salvatore Calabrese, former holder of the worlds best bartender title has recaptured the title back to blightly, with the "Legacy" cocktail.  Sold exclusively at his self named bar "Calabrese's" which is part of the faintly unpopular Playboy Casino (mainly unpopular due to excessive membership fees, but thats a separate story altogether) he put on quite a show the other evening - the video of which can be seen below- when he unveiled what is both the most expensive and the oldest cocktail the world has ever seen.

The drink contains a 1778 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac, a 1770 Kummel Liquer, a1860 Dubb Orange Curacao, and two dashes of 1900 era Angostura Bitters, a total of 730 years of experience, and, a new high of £5,500 per glass.

Drinking it may be difficult however, as the Calabrese bar is part of the members only Playboy Club, but we are sure if you tell them you want to spend a night drinking "Legacy" cocktails they will let you past the Velvet rope.