Tarragone Verte Fabiola -73
⏳ Drikkevindue
Ready to drink now, with virtually indefinite aging potential. These historic mid-20th-century bottlings continue to soften, integrate, and develop extraordinary complexity in the bottle over many decades.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
dark chocolate desserts, blue cheese, roasted nuts
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
The 'Tarragone Verte Fabiola' represents a legendary chapter in the history of Chartreuse, distilled during the monks' famous period of production in Tarragona, Spain. Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in this Spanish port city, producing liqueurs that developed a distinct cult following. The 'Fabiola' bottling, produced between 1967 and 1973, pays tribute to Dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon on the occasion of her marriage to King Baudouin of Belgium. This expression is highly prized by collectors for its unique Spanish terroir, utilizing local spirits and botanicals that yielded a rounder, sweeter, and intensely aromatic profile compared to its French counterpart. Matured in oak casks, this historic green liqueur showcases an incredibly complex, evolving bouquet of anise, rosemary, mint, and warm baking spices.
🍾 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.