Fabriquee
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
This historic spirit is fully mature and ready to drink now, but due to its high alcohol content and sugar preservation, it is virtually immortal and will continue to hold its exceptional quality indefinitely.
🍽️ Culinary Pairings
dark chocolate truffles, aged blue cheese, traditional almond cake
✨ Technical Specifications
This legendary bottling hails from the historic Tarragona distillery in Spain, where the Carthusian Monks produced their famous liqueurs during their exile from France. The 'Fabriquee 1966-1973' designation refers to a highly coveted era of production characterized by distinct Spanish glass bottles and tax stamps. Handcrafted using the closely guarded recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in high-quality distillate and aged in oak casks, this expression is celebrated for its remarkable depth, integration, and unique Spanish terroir influence. The Tarragona bottlings from this period are renowned among collectors for a softer, sweeter, and more intensely herbal profile than their French counterparts, showing notes of anise, wild thyme, honey, and warm spices that have beautifully integrated over decades of bottle aging.
🍾 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.