Eau-de-Vie Voiron
⏳ Drinking Window
As a highly stable, wood-aged distilled spirit, it is bottled ready to drink and will not mature further in glass. It can be enjoyed immediately or cellared indefinitely, remaining pristine for years even after opening.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
dark chocolate, dried fruits and nuts, strong blue cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
While the Carthusian Monks of Chartreuse are globally renowned for their secret, botanically-infused green and yellow liqueurs, their mastery of distillation also extends to pure wine spirits. The Eau-de-Vie Voiron represents this historic, non-herbal side of their monastic craftsmanship. Distilled from select French grapes and aged in the legendary oak casks of the historic Voiron cellars—famed as the longest liqueur cellar in the world—this rare spirit showcases the pristine quality of the monks' base distillate. Free from the dominant herbal profile of their signature liqueurs, it highlights the natural elegance of the grape, offering a refined profile of dried stone fruits, warm wood spice, toasted nuts, and a subtle, complex rancio developed through patient wood aging.
🍾 About the Producer
Tracing its origins to 1605 when the Carthusian monks received a mysterious manuscript detailing an 'Elixir of Long Life,' Chartreuse is one of the world's most iconic and secretive spirit producers. Perfected in 1737 at the Grande Chartreuse monastery near Grenoble, France, the sacred recipe remains strictly guarded by just two monks who oversee the selection, maceration, and distillation of 130 natural mountain herbs, plants, and flowers. Production has traversed historic milestones, including a famed period of distillation in Tarragona, Spain, before settling at their modern state-of-the-art distillery in Entre-Deux-Guiers. Renowned globally for its distinctive natural coloring and profound herbal complexity, Chartreuse produces revered expressions such as Chartreuse Verte, the softer Chartreuse Jaune, and extended oak-aged V.E.P. bottlings that evolve magnificently with age.