Fabriquee Verte Periode -1956
⏳ Drinking Window
Ready to drink now. Having aged for over seven decades, this historic bottling has reached a sublime plateau of maturity and will remain in peak condition indefinitely if kept sealed and stored away from direct light.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate tarts, artisanal blue cheeses, rich game terrines
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Fabriquée Verte Période 1951-1956' represents an extraordinary, highly collectible era of Green Chartreuse distilled at the historic Voiron site in France. Handcrafted by the Carthusian Monks using their legendary, closely guarded 1605 recipe of 130 botanicals, this mid-century bottling has undergone decades of glass aging—a phenomenon revered by spirits connoisseurs. Over more than seventy years in the bottle, the high-proof green liqueur has undergone a magical transformation. The intense, fiery herbal bite of its youth has mellowed into a silky, harmonious elixir, revealing deeply integrated notes of candied mint, anise, saffron, pine, and a damp, earthy forest-floor complexity that only extensive bottle evolution can achieve.
🍾 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.