Green Tarragone Verte -85
⏳ Drinking Window
Fully mature and drinking spectacularly now, with the structure to easily cellar for several more decades.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
dark chocolate desserts, strong blue cheeses, neat as a digestif
✨ Technical Specifications
The legendary 'Tarragone' bottlings of Chartreuse represent a fascinating chapter in spirits history. Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in Tarragona, Spain, where they continued to produce their enigmatic green liqueur until 1989. The period between 1973 and 1985 yielded some of the most coveted expressions of Green Chartreuse ever made. Crafted from the secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in a grape-based spirit and aged in oak, these Spanish bottlings are celebrated for their distinct character, often showing a richer, more honeyed, and intensely complex herbal profile than their French-distilled counterparts. Over decades of bottle aging, the fiery alcohol has integrated beautifully, transforming the liqueur into a sublime, harmonious elixir of anise, mint, rosemary, 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.