Tarragona Fabriquee Green -85
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
Extremely long-lived. This historic liqueur is fully mature and will continue to drink beautifully and evolve for several decades.
🍽️ Culinary Pairings
Dark chocolate desserts, strong blue cheese, wild game dishes
✨ Technical Specifications
The legendary 'Tarragona Fabriquee' Green Chartreuse represents a fascinating chapter in monastic history. Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in Tarragona, Spain, where they continued to produce their enigmatic elixir until 1989. This bottling, spanning the 1973-1985 production era, is highly coveted by collectors for its distinct Spanish character. Utilizing the secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in a grape-based spirit, the Tarragona expressions are celebrated for a slightly sweeter, rounder profile than their French counterparts, influenced by the warm Mediterranean climate and the local Spanish brandy base used for distillation. Over decades of bottle aging, the fiery 55% ABV mellows into an incredibly complex, harmonious tapestry of anise, mint, rosemary, pine, 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.