For the love of booze, are you willing to spend a grand so you can buy one of the most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world? Whether you are a professional liquor collector, an alcohol expert, or a simple person who enjoys his favorite drink, our topic for today is destined for you. When we celebrate, party, give thanks, sometimes even when we grieve, we always find a bottle or glass of alcoholic drink cupped in our hand. Drinking is an activity both young (legal age, of course) and the old people enjoy doing. It doesn’t matter if you’d love to have a jug of beer, a glass of red wine, a shot of tequila, a bottle of vodka, or a sip of margarita. These drinks have only one purpose, that is to give yourself a break from the stressful reality of everyday life.
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How expensive can an alcoholic drink be? Did you know that alcohol can be a form of luxury too? Alcohol is easily identified by its brand. Because each alcoholic brand has their own touch, taste, and feel of a spirit. They have their unique offers out of a drink that makes them different from one another. From the alcohol content to the fruit used to produce such flavor and aroma, to the process of brewing or distilling that involves alcohol making. These factors make up an alcoholic drink. Feel free to check out the 10 most expensive alcoholic brands in the world to give you an idea of how branding works! So how expensive again an alcohol can be? The sky is the limit, my friend!
Aside from taking home the bragging rights of owning a sophisticated and luxurious alcoholic drink, here are the other perks of buying a bottle of a prestige drink. According to science, drinking moderately can help lessen the risk of having diabetes mellitus and stroke. A group of European researchers suggest that drinking alcoholic beverage in young adults can help prevent dementia. Alcohol is our new savior! Alcohol is the answer to all our health concerns! Well, this only applies to moderate drinkers. Since alcohol abuse is linked with a lot of health issues, most notably liver diseases.
So, are you ready to ditch that bottle of Jack for a multi-million dollar drink (spoiler alert!)? Here are the 10 most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world.
10. Vieille Bon Secours Ale
Price: $1,200
The world’s most expensive beer called the Vieille Bon Secours Ale comes from a family run brewery in Belgium, the Brasserie Caulier. This beer is already the cheapest we have on the list. With a huge bottle of 12 liters in total, there’s no way you can chug it down in one seating, by yourself. So, what makes it so special among other beers in the world? It has a distinct taste of anise, citrus, and butterscotch. All hail to the artisanal brewing process the brewery upholds. Not to mention that they keep their beers fermented for 10 years! And oh, it also has twice the alcohol content (8%) in it than your average beer.
9. The Winston Cocktail
Price: $14,000
If you’re more of a bottle collector, you may have your second thoughts in getting only one glass of the Winston Cocktail for $14,000. You can only sip down a glass prepared by the world-known Master Bartender, Salvatore Calabrese. The mix of the cocktail is made of Cognac Croizet 1858 Cuvee Leonie, Grand Marnier Quintessence, Chartreuse Viellissement Exception element Prolongé, and Angostura Bitters. Again, no bottle included. I can’t imagine shelling out $14,000 out of my pocket for a single glass of cocktail. The $14,000 doesn’t even exist in my pocket right now. But again, this Winston Cocktail is no doubt, one of the most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world!
8. Legacy by Angostura
Price: $25,000
If you love your own country, you’ll make a way to produce a $25,000 rum whom your fellowmen can be proud of. At least this is inspired by a true story for Trinidad and Tobago’s 50th anniversary of independence. To celebrate the country’s freedom, the rum called Legacy by Angostura was born. The Legacy is so unique that the inventor of this rum only created 20 bottles of a legendary drink! The drink itself is a combination of rums aged for a minimum of 17 years. What makes it so expensive is that each bottle is crafted with crystals by the Asprey’s of London. They’re not really popular. They only designed the jewelry for Prince Charles, not like it’s a big deal. Well, come on, it is a major big deal!
7. 1811 Château d’Yquem
Price: $130,000
Robert Parker, an international wine critic had fallen in love with the 1811 Château d’Yquem that this white wine received a perfect score of 100! Wine experts have described a sharp flavor of “liquefied crème brûlée”. Bordeaux, France is the known origin of this oozing wine wherein its winery is known as one of the most famous sellers of luxurious alcoholic drinks in the world! If you have $130,000, you can take home the 1811 Château d’Yquem today.
6. Penfolds Ampoule
Price: $170,000
Are you the one who keep a limited edition alcoholic beverage in your cellar at home? You might want to grab the limited-edition red wine made by an Australian distillery, the Penfolds. The Penfolds Ampoule is one of the most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world. With only twelve handmade bottles in the market with 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine is only for a keeper. In 2012, Penfolds released the Ampoule to celebrate their success in the wine business. The vessels were personally designed by Andrew Bartlett. Little did we know that it will be the most expensive red wine on earth!
5. Armand de Brignac Midas
Price: $215,000
The Midas is made only for those who can endure it, the kings. The Armand de Brignac Midas is named after King Midas. This 30-liter Brut Gold is surely a head turner, thanks to the bottle designer, a fourteen-year-old boy named Flavor Flav. If you have a bottle of Armand de Brignac Midas at your party, you won’t have to worry about getting your drink short for it is equivalent to forty 750ml bottles of sparkling champagne! That’s more than enough to wobble down your guests’ sanity.
4. Macallan 64 Year Old in Lalique
Price: $460,000
The World Guinness Book of Record tagged the Macallan 64 Year Old in Lalique as the world’s most expensive whiskey to be ever sold for $460,000. Yet, it was auctioned in New York (2010) for charity purposes. According to the Macallan’s website, the proceeds will help them distribute clean and safe drinking water to developing countries. The 1.5 hand-crafted decanter that holds the culture and passion of the Macallan contains a sweet-smelling essence of a seasoned Spanish oak.
3. Diva Vodka
Price: $1,000,000
Every diva deserves a glamorous drink, here’s the Diva Vodka, the real million-dollar baby you can get. Say hello to the Swarovski crystals stacked up in the middle of your vodka drink. You can use these shiny yet pricey stones as a garnish for your drink! The Diva Vodka baby went through a 3-stage distillation process. Wherein it came contact with ice and some precious earth stones.
2. Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne
Price: $2,000,000
The costly bottle of Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne knows how to entice the tongue of any bachelor or executive. For those who want to get a hold of the luxurious cognac, you can avail it for $2,000,000 making it the second most expensive alcoholic beverage in the world! The skyrocketing price is reasonable enough for the drink itself is produced by King Henry IV’s descendants. Also, it’s been bottled up for a century waiting for that deserving person to come and grab it. If you consider drinking a cognac dipped in 24 karat gold, then you’re the one!
1. Tequila Ley.925
Price: $3,500,000
The most expensive alcoholic drink in the world is the Tequila Ley .925 which costs $3.5 million dollars. Remember the 2nd most expensive alcoholic beverage on the list? It’s the long lost brother of Ley.925 for they are produced by a single and the same distillery. The Ley .925 comes from a 100% blue agave plant transformed to the most well-bred tequila on the planet. To favor the love of the richest alcohol lovers, the bottle is beautifully studded with 6,400 pieces of sparkling diamonds by the CEO of Ley himself, Fernando Altamirano. Take note that one can’t simply buy a bottle of Tequila Ley over the counter. You must pay $100,000 in order to just get the number of the Ley .925 seller.
There we have the most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world! So be it a rum or vodka, a sweet red wine over white wine, tequila versus beer, drinks are available for each kind of alcohol fandoms. With a little help from thechest.com, we were able to come up with a clean list of the 10 most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world with the verification of information and numbers from the Guinness World Records! Do you own any of the luxurious drinks we mentioned? Why not share your ideas with us to improve our review! We’ll be glad to hear your (drunken) story too!
