When you look up “extravagant” in the dictionary, you may very well find the picture above. It costs 27,321 dirham at the Skyview Bar of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai and is, appropriately enough, named the “27.321.” For those not familiar with the exchange rates, I am told that it comes out to approximately $7,450 for one cocktail.

What makes the drink so expensive? Part of it is no doubt the location at what is reportedly one of the world’s poshest hotels in the middle of oil country in a bar with a first rate view. But the ingredients attest to luxury. The base is 55 year old Macallan single malt whisky from Scotland. Style.com reported on the release of this spirit last year, saying it comes in “a crystal Lalique decanter, has a limited run of 420 bottles, and costs $12,000.”

The whisky is mixed with dried fruit bitters and passion fruit sugar, then served over ice. The cubes, however, are not made of ordinary tap water. For a cocktail such as this that certainly would not do. Instead, it uses ice made from water from the Macallan distillery itself and gets served up with a stirrer made of wood from a Macallan cask.

If you still can’t imagine shelling out more than $7,000 for this, maybe this will seal the deal: you get to keep the 18 karat gold goblet the drink is served to you in. Of course, the plane ticket isn’t cheap, averaging about $1500 for a coach class fare from New York to Dubai. And if you’re going to spring for this cocktail, you probably won’t find yourself sitting in coach.

Photo courtesy Skyview Bar