Carbone Limited Edition
⏳ Drinking Window
Virtually limitless aging potential. While magnificent to experience upon release, it will continue to evolve, mellow, and gain complexity in the bottle for decades.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich dark chocolate tarts, artisanal blue cheese, or served neat as an extraordinary digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Chartreuse 'Carbone' Limited Edition is an ultra-rare, highly collectible masterpiece from the Carthusian Monks of the Grande Chartreuse. Presented in a striking, sleek black bottle that inspires its name, this cuv e is a modern legend in the world of fine spirits. While the exact details of its selection remain shrouded in monastic secrecy, it is crafted from a meticulously curated blend of Green Chartreuse, showcasing an intensified expression of the legendary 130 botanicals. Matured in oak casks at the Aiguenoire distillery, this limited edition offers an extraordinary sensory journey, marrying the intense, fiery herbal power of wild alpine flora with a velvety, complex sweetness and a remarkably long, evolving finish.
🍾 About the Producer
Chartreuse represents one of the world's most legendary and enigmatic spirit traditions, rooted in an alchemical manuscript for an 'elixir of long life' presented to the Carthusian monks by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605. Brother Jérôme Maubec and Brother Antoine spent decades unraveling its formula, establishing the Élixir Végétal in 1764 and Green Chartreuse in 1840. While production historically migrated from Fourvoirie to Tarragona during monastic expulsion, and later Voiron, primary distillation moved to the Aiguenoire facility in Entre-Deux-Guiers in 2018. Surrounded by the limestone massifs of the Prealps, only two designated Carthusian monks hold the complete secret formula, overseeing the selection, weighing, and blending of 130 alpine herbs, plants, and botanicals. The complex multi-stage macerations and copper pot distillations age in colossal uncharred oak foudres, creating peerlessly complex liqueurs capable of decades of bottle maturation. Benchmark expressions include the intensely herbal Green Chartreuse (55% ABV), saffron-tinged Yellow Chartreuse (43% ABV), and extended-cellared V.E.P. bottlings.