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Chartreuse Liqueur d'Elixir 1605, 56° (70 cl)

Appellation: Chartreuse
Domain: La Grande Chartreuse
Grape variety(ies): Alcool, sucre, 130 plantes et fleurs.
Alcohol degree: 56%

Titrating 56°, it borrows from the production of the time, a racy impetuosity that authentic amateurs will be very surprised to find.

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One day in 1605, Marshal François Hannibal d'Estrées gave the Carthusian Fathers of the Chartreuse de Vauvert in Paris a mysterious manuscript containing the formula for an Elixir of Long Life. The Carthusian monks used all their science to decipher the grimoire, and their patient work finally came to fruition when Brother Jérôme Maubec, apothecary of the Grande-Chartreuse, perfected this Elixir with incomparable virtues.

Oenology

The need to make this powerful remedy with its exceptional bouquet into a particularly pleasant digestive drink soon became obvious. The first liqueur, the ancestor of Chartreuse Verte, was born. It is this very first liqueur that the Carthusian monks are reviving today, naming it "Liqueur d'Elixir", to commemorate the handing over of the manuscript to the Carthusian monks of Vauvert 400 years ago.

Domain

La Grande Chartreuse

Since 2022, CAVE SA has been the official importer of Chartreuse in French-speaking Switzerland.Founded in 1084, the Carthusian Order is one of the oldest monastic orders in Christianity. It was founded by Bruno, who was born in Cologne around 1030. A highly esteemed professor and later rector of the cathedral school of Rheims, he was at the height of his fame when he decided to follow what he considered to be his true vocation: to leave the world and honours in order to live for God alone and "embrace the monastic life". With six friends and after several unsatisfactory attempts, he came to Grenoble, attracted by the reputation of the young bishop Hugh. In a dream, he saw God building a house for his glory in the heart of a mountain called "Chartreuse", a place so sparsely inhabited that it was nicknamed "the desert"; seven stars showed him the way. Seeing in the arrival of Bruno and his six friends the response of Providence to this mysterious dream, he led his visitors there. It was June 1084 and Bruno recognised in this solitary place the place he was looking for. It would be the site of the future Grande Chartreuse. Wooden cells were quickly built, with a gallery linking them to a chapel and some buildings intended for community life, because Bruno thought it was necessary to combine...