Tarragone Fabriquee Green - 85
⏳ Drikkevindue
Ready to drink now. Due to its high alcohol volume and sugar content, this historic liqueur is virtually indestructible and will continue to hold its exceptional complexity indefinitely.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
dark chocolate desserts, strong blue cheese, rich game terrines
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
The legendary 'Tarragone' bottlings of Chartreuse represent 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 manufacture their world-famous liqueurs until 1989. This specific Green Chartreuse, bottled between 1973 and 1985, is highly prized by spirits collectors worldwide. Crafted using the closely guarded recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in a high-proof alcohol base, the Tarragona expressions are celebrated for utilizing local Spanish distillates and water, which imparted a distinctively rich, slightly sweeter, and intensely complex character. Over decades of bottle aging, the initial fiery herbal punch of the young spirit has mellowed into an exquisite, harmonious tapestry of candied mint, anise, rosemary, saffron, and warm honeyed botanicals.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
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.