Fabriquee
⏳ Drinking Window
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.
🍽️ Food & Wine 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
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.