Chances are you’ve heard of Chartreuse , even if you’ve never tasted it. A staple of many of my generation’s parents’ and grandparents’ drinks cabinets, it’s been referenced in films from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes to Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof , where his character Warren says: ‘Chartreuse, the only liqueur so good they named a colour after it.’
The original recipe for the herbal elixir, dating from 1605
The famous liqueur can trace its origins to 1605 when French diplomat François Hannibal d’Estrées gifted a manuscript to the silent order of Carthusian monks at their monastery in Vauvert (near Paris), setting...
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