Une Tarragone Jaune
⏳ Drinking Window
Ready to drink now. Having already aged for a century, this historic spirit has reached a sublime plateau of maturity and will remain stable indefinitely under proper cellar conditions.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
dark chocolate, blue cheese, dried fruits
✨ Technical Specifications
Following their expulsion from France in 1903, the Carthusian Monks established a distillery in Tarragona, Spain, where they produced their legendary liqueurs for decades. This 1921 'Tarragone Jaune' (Yellow Chartreuse) represents a pinnacle of spirits history, crafted from the closely guarded secret recipe of 130 botanicals. Unlike its green counterpart, the Yellow Chartreuse is softer, sweeter, and characterized by prominent notes of honey, saffron, anise, and mild spices. Decades of bottle aging have integrated these complex botanicals into a seamless, silky elixir of unparalleled depth, highly prized by collectors worldwide.
🍾 About the Producer
Chartreuse represents one of the world's most legendary and enigmatic spirit traditions, rooted in an alchemical manuscript for an 'elixir of long life' presented to the Carthusian monks by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605. Brother Jérôme Maubec and Brother Antoine spent decades unraveling its formula, establishing the Élixir Végétal in 1764 and Green Chartreuse in 1840. While production historically migrated from Fourvoirie to Tarragona during monastic expulsion, and later Voiron, primary distillation moved to the Aiguenoire facility in Entre-Deux-Guiers in 2018. Surrounded by the limestone massifs of the Prealps, only two designated Carthusian monks hold the complete secret formula, overseeing the selection, weighing, and blending of 130 alpine herbs, plants, and botanicals. The complex multi-stage macerations and copper pot distillations age in colossal uncharred oak foudres, creating peerlessly complex liqueurs capable of decades of bottle maturation. Benchmark expressions include the intensely herbal Green Chartreuse (55% ABV), saffron-tinged Yellow Chartreuse (43% ABV), and extended-cellared V.E.P. bottlings.