The most expensive vodka in the world
By Paul Johnson on Apr 17, 2008 in Europe, Food and Drink, Regions, Travel Miscellany, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Produced by the Blackwood Distillers of Scotland, DIVA Premium Vodka runs from £2,000 to £540,000 per bottle (yes, that’s over $1 million!) depending on your selection of precious stones that run within the middle of each bottle. The vodka itself is triple-distilled, ice-filtered, filtered through purifying Nordic birch charcoal and then finally through a fine sand of crushed diamonds and gemstones.
Many hotels are now offering drinks and even deserts with ‘extras’. Raffles Canouan have a signature martini at a cost of $300 with a gold olive sword – ‘definately a great start to each evening’, apparently… and the Lighthouse in Sri Lanka has a $14,500 dessert – whilst searching the web for a reference to this (http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/drink/story/0,,2272803,00.html) I was amazed to find my hometown of Burnley, a somewhat impoverished Northern mill town, is home to the world’s most expensive pie at over £8,000. Thinking I’d never seen it on the menu at the Fence Gate, it seems as though it was a one off a few years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4440354.stm but it certainly made me laugh!