Chartreuse
In 1605 in a Chartreuse monastery in Vauvert, a small suburb of Paris, the monks received a gift from Duc Francois Hannibal d’ Estrées, Marshal of King’s Henri IV artillery. It was an already ancient manuscript from an “Elixir” soon to be nicknamed “Elixir of Long Life”.
This manuscript was probably the work of a 16th century alchemist with a great knowledge of herbs and with the skill to blend, infuse, macerate the 130 of them to form a perfect balanced tonic.
Today all of these liqueurs are made only by monks and are based on that ancient manuscript given in 1605.