Fabriquee Green Voiron -51
⏳ Drinking Window
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.
🍽️ Food & Wine 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
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.