Peres Chartreux Une Tarragone Jaune Periode -1929
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
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.
🍽️ Culinary 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
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.