Dublin’s €500 cocktail is strictly for the minted

IT’S Minted by name and you would need to be minted by nature to order the world’s most expensive cocktail from the Mint Bar in Dublin’s Westin Hotel.

With a price tag of €500, the cocktail is a vanilla and chocolate Martini, created using Grey Goose Original Vodka infused with vanilla pods, blended with Mozart white chocolate liqueur and Hennessy Richard, a 200- year-old cognac, and mixed with 23-carat gold flakes. It is served chilled in a Jasper Conran Waterford Crystal martini glass with chocolate truffles on the side.