Green Fabriquee Santa Tecla
⏳ Drinking Window
Virtually indefinite aging potential. Highly enjoyable upon release for its vibrant herbal intensity, but it develops extraordinary integration, softness, and complex honeyed notes over 10 to 40+ years of bottle cellaring.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate truffles, pungent blue cheeses, citrus-infused tarts
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Green Fabriquee Santa Tecla' is a highly coveted, limited-edition bottling of Green Chartreuse that celebrates the deep historical connection between the Carthusian Monks and the city of Tarragona, Spain. Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the monks relocated their production to Tarragona, brewing their legendary liqueurs there until 1989. To honor this period of exile and the city's patron saint, Santa Tecla, the monks release this special commemorative bottling annually. It is crafted using the traditional, closely guarded recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in a grape-based spirit and aged in oak casks. This expression delivers the classic, intense herbaceous power, peppery spice, and sweet botanical complexity of Green Chartreuse, serving as a liquid monument to monastic resilience and Spanish festive tradition.
🍾 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.