Expensive Drinks Remain Popular….and some people have money to burn!

Even in these times of austerity there is still money to be found for expensive tastes in alcohol.  Well, that is certainly how it would appear reading the recent news columns.  According to a Onepoll survey, the average Britain spends £49,581 on alcohol during their adult lifetime and those with really expensive tastes manage to rack their average bill up to a whopping £167,000.  Perhaps they are the customers who frequent Gigi’s restaurant in Mayfair where a cocktail, created in honour of the James Bond actress Grace Jones, retails for £9,000?  Made from 1990 vintage Champagne and 1888 vintage Armagnac, it claims to be the world’s most expensive cocktail.  A believable statement given that the bill would burn a hole in most peoples’ pockets – except that is, Paris Hilton’s.  Last week in New York the heiress to the Hilton hotel empire managed to spend £140,000 at the bar in one night – some people still know how to party!

We have some wonderful vintage armagnacs on our shelves and even though they are cheaper than a Grace Jones, we wouldn’t waste any one of them in a cocktail!