I Think We Have a New World’s Most Expensive Liquor

A few months ago, I attempted to track down the world’s most expensive cocktail.  The winner was a champagne-based monstrosity called “Dazzle,” which is served at the Harvey Nichols department store in Manchester, UK.  Security guards accompany the drink from the bar to your table.  It comes with a free diamond ring!  Free after you pay tens of thousands of dollars, I mean.  But now legendary French liqueur-smith Chambord has created a one-of-a-kind bottle that trammels every other so-called expensive tipple.  Even the most expensive wines to go to auction – the kind of stuff Thomas Jefferson was drinking – never command this kind of price.

The Chambord bottle is tricked out with “gold, diamonds, and pearls.”  Guess how much it’s worth.  

$2 million!  It was displayed at the theatrical premiere of Breakfast at Tiffany’s the other night.

Coming soon to your local club.  ”You were so crazy last night, bro!  You just kept doing shots of Grey Goose and yelling about how Obama doesn’t understand investment banking.  Then you told the bartender you wanted Chambord, and he told you it cost $2 million.  You just kind of paused and then went, ‘Do you think I don’t know that?’  But then you dropped the bottle in the toilet when you were trying to clean up all the coke you spilled.”

Source: Vogue via Neatorama.