Mediaboss Marketing

By Guy Adams

PUBLISHED: 17:21 EST, 9 August 2013 | UPDATED: 17:22 EST, 9 August 2013

The time is just after midnight. The place: a basement full of outwardly-glamorous people, reached via a set of double doors halfway down an alleyway off Carnaby Street in Soho, central London.

Perched at the neon bar, I ask for a wine list. It contains nothing but champagne.

The cheapest, a bog-standard Moet, is just under 100 a bottle. Dom Perignon will be 340.

Celebrity circus: Cirque Le Soir 'ringmaster' Tom Berg with Cara Delevingne (centre) and Rihanna

Louis Roederer Cristal, champagne of choice for the discerning rap artist, costs 1,000.

On page two is the really special stuff. A Jeroboam of Krug, the equivalent of four normal bottles, costs 3,000.

Various Methuselahs each six litres range from 10,000 to 40,000. Thats equivalent to more than 800 for every single glass.

For the real big spenders, there seems to be only one option, though. At the end of the wine list is a 30-litre, gold-plated Midas of Ace Of Spades champagne, made by high-end producer Armand de Brignac.

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