Chartreuse, the eerie green/yellow hue, suggests moss, algae and eels. Not that moss, algae and eels are squeezed into chartreuse, the eerie green/yellow liqueur. The 130 alpine herbs captured in the bottle remain a secret, confided to monks in 1605 and protected, the label swears, by a vow of silence. Those quiet alchemists originally distilled the drink from their home, a charterhouse, or, in French, chartreuse. Ah and ha. Right?
Chartreuse tastes of fennel, mint and grass. It's nice neat and enchanting as a cocktail. Frozen and frothed with fresh melon, it makes a thick elixir as refreshing as a mountain hike, in silence, at eerie green/yellow dawn.
