chartreuse

Saturday, October 8. 2005

in villeneuve, just across the rhône river, is the old monastery of chartreuse. right -- as in the liquor. back in the day at capp st. in san francisco, chartreuse became something of an obsession, possibly due to its reputation of being the closest thing to absinthe you could legally get. made from over a hundred different herbs with a complicated recipe only fully known to a few upper-echelon carthusian monks, it was a drink with a story and a punch. also, it is very delicious as a digestive.

[after some research, it seems that even though villeneuve was the main carthusian HQ for a time, it wasn't the site of the distillery.]

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