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
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.