Peres Chartreux Une Tarragone Jaune Periode -1929
⏳ Drinking Window
Ready to drink now. Having already aged for nearly a century, this historic spirit has reached an extraordinary peak of complexity and will remain stable indefinitely if kept in proper cellar conditions.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged blue cheeses, rich dark chocolate tarts, or served neat as a contemplative digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
This legendary bottling represents a fascinating and tumultuous chapter in the history of the Carthusian Monks. Following their expulsion from France in 1903 and the state's confiscation of their distillery, the monks relocated to Tarragona, Spain, where they resumed production of their secret elixir. The 'Tarragone Jaune' (Yellow Chartreuse) produced during the 1921-1929 period is highly revered by spirits collectors worldwide. Crafted from a secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in grape spirit and aged in oak, this expression is softer, sweeter, and lower in alcohol than its green counterpart, with its yellow hue derived naturally from saffron. Over nearly a century of bottle aging, the vibrant herbal and botanical notes have mellowed into an incredibly complex, velvety nectar showing notes of honeyed beeswax, dried apricots, anise, and warm baking spices.
🍾 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.