Tarragone Jaune -85
⏳ Drikkevindue
This historic bottling is fully mature and at its peak, capable of maintaining its extraordinary complexity and drinking beautifully for decades to come.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Dark chocolate tart, Blue cheese, Almond biscotti
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
The legendary 'Tarragone Jaune' represents a fascinating chapter in the history of Chartreuse. Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in the Catalan port city of Tarragona, Spain, where they continued to produce their mystical liqueurs until 1989. The bottlings from the 1973 to 1985 era are highly coveted by collectors worldwide. Crafted from the secret recipe of 130 botanicals, this yellow expression is sweeter and milder than its green sibling, characterized by prominent notes of saffron, honey, anise, and soft mountain herbs. The unique climate of Tarragona and the use of local Spanish spirits for maceration imparted a distinct, warmer character to these bottlings. Over decades of bottle aging, this liqueur has undergone a magical transformation, integrating its sugars and alcohol into a seamless, silky, and incredibly complex elixir.
🍾 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.