Traditionally considered a digestive, Chartreuse is also consumed in cocktails since the 19th century. The best sommeliers in France have come to the distillers of the Grande Chartreuse to create a masterpiece with a spicy elegant touch.

Google Analytics is a marketing tool that allows us to see how our site is used, for example how many visitors we get and which pages are viewed most. Only three monks know the identity of the 130 plants, how to blend them and how to distill them into this world famous liqueur. Traditionally considered an after dinner drink, Chartreuse is more and more being enjoyed as a long drink.

I remember well we went one day to Versaille and The Palais Garnier (Opera House) and that evening they `let us out` on our own. Distinctively rich with a touch of smokiness, made from the most exceptional malt and grain whiskies of Scotland. Chartreuse consists of 130 herbs and owes its good image for centuries and certainly to the beneficial digestibility of the liqueur. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

Chartreuse Green Liqueur is produced using all natural ingredients in a recipe unchanged since the 17 th century and has a strong and distinctive flavour created from a secret blend of 130 different herbs, giving Chartreuse Green its unique taste.Sitting at a pavement cafe with coffee and gateux one of my friends was brave and asked for a brandy. Discover more about “Made in Italy”, a label synonymous throughout the world with refined materials, attention to detail, and creativity. There is so much alcohol in it that it evaporates on your tongue and need a syringe to extract it from the bottle.

v=1650103866","width":800},{"alt":null,"id":21619817906227,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1. Made by the Carcheus Monks since 1737 according to the instructions in a manuscript by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605. The liqueur is named after the Monastery Grande Chartreuse of the Carcheus Monks located in the Chartreuse Mountains in Grenoble France. Retired now as a pubescent schoolboy in the late 1950s I went on a school trip to Paris where we stayed in a school with dormitories. I have been sleeping better, after 5yrs of having ITP (low platelets) they are now within the normal range!It is sweet, very herbal, and very flavoursome suitable by itself chilled, in a hot chocolate, or in a variety of mixed drinks. The manuscript's recipe was so complex that only bits and pieces of it were understood and used at the monastery in Vauvert. The recipe is believed to be the work of a 16th century alchemist, who amongst other skills, had a profound knowledge of plants and herbs, probably one of the greatest botanists of the time.

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Originally created in 1605 by Peres Chartreux as an ‘Elixir of Long Life’, the secret recipe has been perfected until the mid-18 th century to reach the powerful taste it is today.No" I replied "Even when Mum puts it on the Christmas Pudding it makes me feel ill" -- The Garcon then said "I have something special for you" and with that he poured me a drop of Green Chartreuse - the nectar of the Gods.