Tarragone Fabriquee Yellow - 85
⏳ Drikkevindue
This historic bottling is fully mature and, due to its high alcohol and sugar content, virtually immortal; it is drinking beautifully now and will easily endure for decades if kept in proper cellar conditions.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Dark chocolate desserts, artisanal blue cheeses, or simple almond biscotti.
✨ 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 handcraft their enigmatic liqueurs until 1989. This specific Yellow Chartreuse, produced between 1973 and 1985, is highly coveted by collectors worldwide. Known for its softer, sweeter profile compared to the Green expression, the Yellow Chartreuse achieves its signature hue naturally, largely from saffron. It is crafted from a secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in grape spirit and aged in oak casks. Over decades of bottle aging, these historic Tarragona bottlings develop an extraordinary complexity, transforming the intense herbal and honeyed notes into a seamless, silky, and deeply nuanced elixir that bridges monastic devotion with liquid history.
🍾 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.