Chartreuse Green Liqueur

I read @cascode review and and just had to try for myself. The unique coloring, the mystery of ingredients and mostly someone’s and different. This all seems a perfect analogy to a new year. I tasted over several pours over several days. To the best I could uncover, expose and experience. A pale green, artificial looking color similar to the color of sour apple Jolly Rancher. If judging a nose by it’s appearance, then you would most like guess correctly the aromas. Earthy and minty. Fresh mowed lawn clippings and spearmint, basil, oregano, pine needles, fennel, thyme, oranges with cloves all awaking the nose. Cinnamon and nutmeg add a bit of earthy spiciness. This is unlike any other combined aroma I have previously nosed. Antiseptic yet captivating. The palate is quite unique as well. It arrives viscous, oily and dense. Spiciness of white pepper is coated on the tongue from the slick fluid. From there, it turns delicately sweet with herbaceous. Take a simple, white sugar syrup and blend in thyme, basil or pesto, fennel, spearmint, rosemary, pickled ginger, cinnamon. There are other flavors that I cannot fully extract. The complexity of flavors is far beyond what the palate can isolate and detect. What could be detected feels like just a fraction of what’s there. Like and iceberg (as we all know the analogy) there is much more below the surface. The palate remains oily and tingly with the white pepper, syrup, spearmint and pesto sauce. Fortunately this remains for an essential eternity, and rewardingly so. Not sure what else to say. This is unique, refreshing, satisfying, cleansing, aromatic and tasty. I haven’t used that many adjectives together to describe a single spirit that I have tasted. Perfect compliment as a digestif. But just as much for the simple enjoyment. Worth the price of admission. [$56][96/100][Tasted: 12/21/22]

Appearance: Chartreuse. A pale yellow/green colour of crystal clarity that catches the light like a green diamond or peridot. It’s similar to the colour of high-grade un-louched absinthe. Aroma: Lime juice, lime marmalade, pine needles, basil, oregano, angelica, spearmint, peppermint, a zephyr of green anise, thyme, juniper, dried orange skin, orange sherbet, cinnamon, menthol, wintergreen, melissa, grapefruit, a suggestion of eucalyptus, liquidamber storax and a hundred other herbal and spice aromas (quite literally). The complexity of this nose is preternatural. Flavour and Texture: A very sweet and complex herbaceous beginning that develops into an intricate mid-palate built around mint, citrus, pine oil, rosemary, sorrel, basil, green anise, fennel, petit wormwood and an array of seed spices too complex to unravel. The finish is long, with emerging ginger and red ginseng, and there is a note of gentian bitterness in the aftertaste. The texture is dense and syrupy. This is a liqueur of unexcelled complexity and nobility. In the spectrum of liqueurs, just as in the spectrum of visible light, Chartreuse stands bright and aloof at centre stage flanked by everything else. I like to take it neat, at room temperature, with a demitasse of strong black unsweetened coffee. “Patrician” : 96/100 (5 stars)

Smakseksplosjon

Love the taste.

Without a doubt one of the best liqueurs in the world. The complexity of green chartreuse is vastly superior to any other liqueur. The nose is very herbal and heavy on the menthol, with citrus and spices. The palate is very rich, floral, somewhat bitter, with stone fruits and some more mint flavors. The finish is quite long with only the slightest bit of burn. There isnt much else to say about this, its amazing. It may be expensive for a liqueur, but it's more than worth it.

Holy flavor overload. This green drink has so much going on. Aromas are all herbs. Anise. Black pepper. The flavor is even more so. Anise. Rosemary. Other leafy greens. So floral. So spicy. So herbal. And an alcohol bite I did not expect. Very good