Green Period -83
⏳ Drinking Window
Ready to drink now, with virtually indefinite aging potential due to its high alcohol and sugar content.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
dark chocolate desserts, blue cheese, roasted duck
✨ Technical Specifications
The Green Chartreuse from the Tarragona period, specifically bottled between 1978 and 1983, represents a legendary chapter in spirits history. Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in Tarragona, Spain, where they produced their enigmatic liqueurs until 1989. This specific release, crafted from the secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in grape-based alcohol and aged in oak, is highly coveted by collectors. The Tarragona bottlings are celebrated for a distinct character that differs from their French counterparts, often showing a richer, more anise-forward, and slightly sweeter profile. Decades of bottle aging have transformed the fiery 55% ABV spirit into an incredibly complex, harmonious elixir with notes of candied mint, rosemary, thyme, and warm baking spices.
🍾 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.