Yellow Fabiola Period
⏳ Drinking Window & Cellar Guidance
Ready to drink now, with the potential to be kept and savored indefinitely under proper cellar conditions.
🍽️ Culinary Pairings
Dark chocolate desserts, artisanal blue cheese, or served neat as a digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
During the Carthusian monks' historic exile in Tarragona, Spain, a period of production occurred that yielded some of the most collectible spirits in history. Among these is the highly coveted 'Fabiola' bottling of Yellow Chartreuse, named in honor of the 1960 marriage between King Baudouin of Belgium and the Spanish aristocrat Fabiola de Mora y Aragón. Produced between 1965 and 1966, this expression represents a golden era of the Tarragona distillery. Crafted from the legendary secret recipe of 130 botanicals macerated in agricultural alcohol and aged in oak, the Yellow Fabiola is softer, sweeter, and more honey-forward than its Green counterpart. Decades of bottle aging have transformed this liqueur, integrating the notes of saffron, anise, lemon verbena, and wild honey into a sublime, silky elixir of unparalleled complexity.
🍾 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.