Une Chartreuse 39.03%
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
While highly expressive and rewarding upon release, this exceptional liqueur possesses an almost limitless aging potential, evolving beautifully over 10 to 30+ years.
🍽️ Culinary Pairings
Dark chocolate truffles, aged Comté cheese, pear tarte tatin
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted in secrecy by the Carthusian Monks of the Grande Chartreuse, 'Une Chartreuse' 2020 is an exceptionally rare, confidential release that showcases the monks' unparalleled mastery of botanical blending. Bottled at a highly precise 39.03% ABV, this expression represents a gentler, incredibly harmonious departure from the traditional high-proof Green and Yellow expressions. It is crafted from a secret selection of the legendary 130 herbs, plants, and flowers, macerated in a grape-spirit base and aged in oak casks at the Aiguenoire distillery. The lower alcohol integration coaxes out remarkably delicate, ethereal aromas of lemon verbena, linden blossom, fresh mint, anise, and wild mountain honey, offering a silky, complex palate that whispers of the ancient alpine forests surrounding the monastery.
🍾 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.