The latest batch of the world’s most expensive gin has gone on sale in time for Christmas, with an eye-watering price tag of £2,000 for a 70cl bottle. That’s £71 a shot!

There is a maximum of 36 bottles of Cambridge Distillery’s Watenshi - or ‘Japanese Angel’ - gin produced every year, with up to just six released within any one country. The current batch is available in the UK exclusively through Selfridges.

The spirit is made from only the best one per cent of the distillery's award-winning Japanese Gin, the portion known as the ‘angels’ share’ which normally simply evaporates into the atmosphere.