Chartreuse Liqueur

Chartreuse Elixir Vegetal is a strange but beautiful liqueur made to an original 'elixir of life' recipe revived by the Carthusian monks in the 18th century. Recommended on a sugar cube or slightly diluted with sugary water.

A beautiful, fabulously concentrated framboise from those clever Carthusian monks who make Chartreuse. Add to Champagne for a Raspberry Kir Royale.

Fresh myrtilles (also known as bilberries) are macerated in a pure spirit by the Carthusian monks to create this unusual but delicious liqueur.

An exemplary traditional cassis from the Carthusian monks, more famous for their phenomenally green herbal liqueur.

A delicious wild blackberry liqueur from the Carthusian monks, more famous for their phenomenally green herbal liqueur.

A milder, sweeter, more approachable Chartreuse more suited for the uninitiated. Remarkably, no Chartreuse products contain any artificial colourings - the colour comes from the ingredients.

A regional French liqueur popular in the Alps and Haut Savoie, Génépi is made with maceration and distillation of various wild Alpine flowers. This version is made by the famous Pères Chartreux.

The Chartreuse most of us recognise from Granny's drinks cabinet. Not to everyone's taste, but for those brave enough to approach with an open mind, this is a remarkable and delicious liqueur.

A half-litre bottle of Chartreuse Yellow VEP. The ageing period for this ultra-mellow Charteuse is at least eight years and the bottle is presented exactly the same way as in 1840, with a wax seal over a driven cork and a wooden box marked with a branding iron. V.E.P. stands for 'Vieillissement Exceptionnellement Prolongé', meaning 'Exceptionally Long-Aged'.

The traditional liqueur aged for at least eight years before bottling, this has the classic flavour profile, but is more mellow and complex. Ideal very cold after dinner.

A litre of this extra aged edition of herby favourite Chartreuse. The VEP stands for Vieillissement Exceptionnellement Prolongé, meaning "exceptionally prolonged aging", in this case at least 8 years.

A very rare half-bottle of the famous Tarragona-produced Chartreuse.

A bottle of Chartreuse Yellow Liqueur, made at the Tarragona distillery in Spain during the 1980s.

A rare old half-bottle of the fabulous Chartreuse Tarragona, bottled in the 1970s.

A sought after bottling of Yellow Chartreuse liqueur, made at their Tarragona factory and released sometime between 1966 and 1973. The story has it that this was produced in 1960 and then rested in casks until at least 1966 before bottling, but as with many stories around Chartreuse of this era it's far from certain.

A 1970s bottling of green Chartreuse, produced at the Tarragona distillery in Spain.

A sought after and very collectible bottle of Green Chartreuse, released some time in the 1940s and produced at their Spanish factory in Tarragona.

An old bottle of Chartreuse Green Liqueur. We estimate that this would have been bottled sometime in the 1950s.