Fabriquee Green -92
⏳ Drinking Window
Enjoy now to experience its beautifully integrated bottle-aged complexity, though it will easily keep and continue to evolve indefinitely.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate tart, blue cheese, or roasted almonds.
✨ Technical Specifications
This highly collectible bottling of Green Chartreuse represents a legendary era of production at the historic Voiron distillery, spanning the decade between 1982 and 1992. Crafted by the Carthusian Monks using their closely guarded 1605 recipe of 130 botanicals, this expression has undergone decades of bottle aging—a phenomenon highly prized by spirits connoisseurs. Unlike most spirits, Chartreuse continues to evolve magnificently in the glass over time. The fiery 55% ABV of its youth has mellowed, allowing the intense, medicinal herbality to integrate into a sublime, velvety tapestry of candied mint, anise, saffron, pine, and warm honeyed notes.
🍾 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.