£50,000 cognac not guinness: most expensive cocktail 27.321. Drinks maestro Salvatore Calabrese was due to pour the £5,050-a-glass concoction using a bottle of Clos de Griffier Vieux.

But a rich businessman who sampled the 234-year-old brandy knocked the bottle off a table. The gutted bartender said: We all just froze, then it sunk in.

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The most expensive cocktail commercially available is "27.321", costing 27,321 United Arab Emirates Dirham (£3,766.52, US$7,439) .

The drink is featured on the menu of The Skyview Bar of Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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