Tarragone Green
⏳ Drinking Window
Extremely long-lived. While ready to enjoy now, these historic bottles possess virtually limitless aging potential, continuing to develop profound complexity over 50 to 100 years.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate desserts, pungent blue cheeses, or enjoyed neat as a classic digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
The legendary 'Tarragone Green' represents a fascinating and highly collectible chapter in the history of Chartreuse. Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in Tarragona, Spain, where they produced their iconic herbal liqueur until 1989. This Spanish-period bottling, revered by spirits connoisseurs worldwide, is crafted from the closely guarded recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in a grape spirit base and aged in oak. Over decades of bottle aging, these historic spirits undergo a magical transformation, where the intense, fiery herbaceousness of the young 55% ABV liqueur mellows into an incredibly complex, harmonious elixir of candied citrus, anise, mint, and warm honeyed 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.