Fabriquee Green Voiron -51
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
This historic bottling is fully mature and ready to drink now, but due to its high alcohol content and sugar preservation, it will easily keep in pristine condition indefinitely.
🍽️ Culinary Pairings
dark chocolate desserts, blue cheese, roasted nuts
✨ Technical Specifications
This legendary bottling of Green Chartreuse, labeled 'Fabriquée à Voiron' and dating from the historic 1941–1951 period, represents a golden era of monastic distilling. Following their exile to Tarragona and the catastrophic 1935 landslide that destroyed their Fourvoirie facility, the Carthusian Monks consolidated production at their Voiron distillery. This era's bottlings are highly prized by collectors for their unique glass-aging evolution. Crafted from the secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in grape alcohol and aged in oak, this spirit has spent decades maturing in the bottle, transforming its intense, fiery herbal profile into a remarkably complex, harmonious elixir showing notes of candied mint, anise, rosemary, damp earth, and warm honey.
🍾 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.