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15 Ιανουαρίου, 2012

The World’s Most Expensive Cocktails

 

 

 

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.

Truffle_Martini

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.

Ritz_Sidecar

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.

Magie_Noir

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.

High_Roller_Martini

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.

Mai_Tai

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.

Platinum_Passion

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.

Diamond_Cocktail

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.

Martini_on_The_Rock

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Παγκόσμιοι Bartenders

29 Νοεμβρίου, 2010

Γιάννης Ζαχόπουλος: 2ος στο Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα I.B.A.


Δεύτερος στον κόσμο αναδείχθηκε τελικά ο Γιάννης Ζαχόπουλος,

στην κατηγορία Cocktail Classic, στο

Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα I.B.A. 2010, που πραγματοποιήθηκε

την περασμένη εβδομάδα, στη Σιγκαπούρη.

unforgettable passion zahopoulos cocktail

Πληροφορίες λένε πως ο Έλληνας bartender,

πιθανόν να άξιζε κάτι καλύτερο,

ακόμη και την πρώτη θέση στο διαγωνισμό,

παρόλα αυτά, κατάφερε ανάμεσα σε εκατοντάδες

άξιους συναδέλφους του από όλο τον κόσμο,

να κατακτήσει τη δεύτερη θέση,

με το δικό του signature cocktail, “Unforgettable Passion”.

 
Δείτε παρακάτω, μερικά από τα κόλπα και τις κινήσεις του Ουρουγουανού flair bartender, στον τελικό του διαγωνισμού.

Είναι άπαιχτο το άτομο!!!!

Τέλος, διοργανωτές και διαγωνιζόμενοι ανανέωσαν το ραντεβού

τους, για του χρόνου,

στο επόμενο Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα της Ι.B.A.,

που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στην Πολωνία.

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