Fabriquee Green Voiron -64
⏳ Drinking Window
Drunk beautifully now, with virtually indefinite aging potential due to its high alcohol and sugar content.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate tart, artisanal blue cheese, or enjoyed neat as a digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
This highly coveted historic bottling of Green Chartreuse represents a legendary era of production at the Voiron distillery between 1956 and 1964. Bearing the 'Fabriquée' distinction, this expression showcases the secret recipe of 130 botanicals meticulously gathered and blended by the Carthusian Monks. Unlike modern releases, mid-century Chartreuse has undergone decades of glass aging, a phenomenon that miraculously softens the spirit's fiery 55% ABV. Over time, the intense, medicinal herb notes of anise, mint, and pine harmonize with rich, honeyed textures and complex layers of saffron, musk, and damp earth, creating an unparalleled sensory journey through monastic history.
🍾 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.