Grace Jones cocktail launches at £9k

A cocktail with a £9,000 price tag created in honour of the James Bond actress Grace Jones has been put on the menu at a restaurant in London’s Mayfair.

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Created in honour of Grace Jones, the luxurious serve was unveiled on Thursday at the official opening of Gigi’s restaurant in Mayfair, which was attended by Grace Jones herself and Boy George.

It is made from a blend of 1990 vintage Cristal Champagne, 1888 Samalens Vieille Relique Vintage Bas Armagnac brandy, topped off with “lashings” of gold leaf, Angostura Bitters and sugar.

According to the restaurant, the price tag includes the market value of each full bottle of alcohol used, which will produce approximately 12 flute servings worth £708 per glass – or about £177 per glug based on four large mouthfuls.

The cocktail follows other costly cocktail creations including a diamond cocktail which was sold in Moscow earlier this year for $50,000, which saw much of its value coming from the three four-carat diamonds floating within it.

The restaurant is claiming to have taken the record for the world’s most expensive cocktail, knocking Melbourne bartender Joel Heffernan’s The Winston off the top spot, which in 2013 was named the world’s most expensive cocktail – a serve priced at £8,200 which included 60ml of Cognac Croizet 1858 Cuvee Leonie, Grand Marnier Quintessence, Chartreuse Vieillissement Exceptionnellement Prolonge, and a dash of Angostura Bitters.

Before that, a glass of Salvatore’s Legacy, which sold for £5,500 at The Playboy Club in London in October 2012, held the most expensive record – a drink containing 40ml of 1788 Clos de Griffier Vieux Cognac, 20ml of 1770 Kummel Liqueur, 20ml of 1860 Dubb Orange Curacao and two dashes of Angostura Bitters from the 1900s.

Grace Jones appeared in James Bond film A View to a Kill alongside Roger Moore in 1985.