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
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.