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Paris Ritz has world's most expensive cocktail

A drink sold at the Ritz Hotel in Paris has been recognised as the most expensive commercially available cocktail in the world.

Guinness World Records ( http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ ) says The Sidecar costs £277.25 a glass.

It contains Champagne Cognac that survived the 1870 siege of Paris and two World Wars.

The Sidecar was believed to have been invented by the hotel's head barman - Frank Meier - in the 1920s when it sold for the equivalent of £1.09.

Head barman Colin Field said: "The Ritz Sidecar contains Ritz Fine Champagne 1865 pre-phylloxera Cognac.

"This Cognac is guaranteed, and has been inside the hotel for over a hundred years, although German soldiers nearly seized it during their occupation of Paris."

The recipe for the record-breaking cocktail is: 5/10 Ritz Fine Champagne 1865 Cognac, 3/10 Cointreau and 2/10 lemon juice.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_800765.html