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Chartreuse Elixir 10cl

Name: Chartreuse Elixir 10cl
Brand: Chartreuse
SKU: 3023482200109
Price: 22.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Producer Chartreuse

Country France

Region French Alps

ABV 69%

Tasting Notes

Peppermint, Pine Resin, Eucalyptus, Ginger and Bitter Herbs

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More About Chartreuse Elixir 10cl

A tiny 10cl bottle of seriously concentrated Chartreuse. Élixir Végétal is the original Chartreuse recipe, made from 130 plants, flowers, roots, bark and spices and bottled at a hefty 69% ABV. It is intensely herbal, minty and resinous, with a long, warming finish. Best treated almost like a botanical concentrate: a few drops on sugar, diluted with water, or used to add a serious herbal punch to cocktails.

Meet the Producer, Chartreuse

Chartreuse

Style: Liqueurs

Chartreuse is one of the strangest and greatest drinks on earth. Made by Carthusian monks using a secret recipe involving 130 herbs, plants and flowers, the liqueur somehow tastes simultaneously medicinal, herbal, sweet, spicy, minty, floral and mildly supernatural.

Produced in the French Alps since the 1700s, Chartreuse exists in two main forms: Green Chartreuse, the intense high-proof version that feels like alpine forests concentrated into liquid form, and Yellow Chartreuse, the softer, slightly sweeter sibling. Both have become legendary among bartenders, cocktail obsessives and anyone who enjoys drinks that refuse to behave normally.

The recipe itself remains famously secret, known only by a tiny number of monks at any given time. Which naturally makes the whole thing even more mysterious and appealing. Somewhere in the Alps, monks are quietly making one of the world’s most iconic liqueurs while the rest of us attempt to identify flavours like “pine forest after rain” and “medieval apothecary”.

What makes Chartreuse especially brilliant is the sheer complexity. Every sip seems to change direction halfway through. Herbs, citrus, anise, mint, honey, pepper and resinous alpine notes all collide in ways that sound ridiculous on paper but somehow become completely addictive in practice.

It’s also astonishingly versatile. Cocktails, neat pours, coffee, desserts, cheese boards, apparently Chartreuse just turns up and improves things while remaining gloriously weird the entire time.

Honestly, it feels less like a drink and more like an ancient magical object that accidentally became commercially available.