#96 Valérie Gamond - Inside Chartreuse: Monks, A Vow Of Silence & The Liqueur They Refuse To Make More Of

Podcast: The Curious Bartender Podcast · Tristan Stephenson

Opublikowano: 2026-09-21

Chartreuse is the most sought-after liqueur in the world. In this episode Valérie Gamond gives the first ever interview from Chartreuse on a podcast. She was born in Voiron, started at the Chartreuse cellars as a 21-year-old summer guide, and thirty-two years later has still never met the monks she works for. We get into the 1605 manuscript handed to the Carthusians in Paris, the 150 years it took to turn it into the Élixir Végétal, and the 130 plants that only three monks in the world can name — one who weighs them into numbered bags at the mo...