Tarragone Fabriquee Yellow -89
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
Fully mature and drinking exceptionally well now; its high alcohol and sugar content allow it to remain stable and continue evolving indefinitely under proper cellar conditions.
🍽️ Culinary Pairings
Dark chocolate desserts, artisanal blue cheese, or served neat as a digestif alongside roasted almonds.
✨ Technical Specifications
The legendary 'Tarragona' Chartreuse represents one of the most fascinating chapters in spirits history. Following their expulsion from France in 1903 due to anticlerical laws, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in Tarragona, Spain, where they continued to manufacture their secret elixirs. Even after returning to France, production in Spain continued until the Tarragona distillery finally closed its doors in 1989. The Yellow (Jaune) expression from the final production era of 1982–1989 is a masterpiece of monastic distilling, crafted from a secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in grape spirit and aged in oak casks. Naturally colored with saffron, this historic liqueur is celebrated for its softer, honeyed, and intensely aromatic profile, showing notes of anise, citrus peel, thyme, and warm spices that have evolved beautifully over decades of bottle aging.
🍾 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.