Liqueur Chartreuse, 1950s

1 bottle Liqueur Chartreuse, 1950's. Tarragona, Spain.
Liqueur.
50 cl.
Damage to the encapsulation visible in the photographs.

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The origins of Chartreuse are obscure. In 1605, Marshal d'Estrées gave the monks of the Carthusian monastery of Vauvert in Paris a manuscript containing the formula for a vegetable elixir. In 1764, this formula of 130 plants was refined and fixed by Brother Jérôme Maubec, who made it the herbal elixir of the Grande-Chartreuse, the monastery where the Chartreuse was produced until 1864. After a difficult end of the century marked by a French Revolution badly disposed towards religious people, the green and yellow Chartreuses were created in 1840 and enjoyed a rapid success. In 1903, the Chartreux were expelled from France and took refuge in Spain, in Tarragona, to produce Chartreuse despite the resale of the brand to a group of liqueurs. They recovered it in 1929 and returned to production in France, although the Tarragona distillery continued its activities until 1989. Today, Chartreuse Diffusion ensures the production, now at the Aigueneoire distillery -after Fourvoirie and Voiron-, and the distribution of the different Chartreuse: the green, the yellow, the vegetable elixir and the VEP, to mention only the best known. Old versions and limited editions delight lovers and collectors of the so-called "Queen of liqueurs".