Sunday, June 28, 2009

Favorite Bottles: Vintage Yellow Chartreuse

Tim Stookey is a good man. Aside from incredible sense of style (the man lives the 40's, I mean LIVES them!) and his excellent taste in beverages, he is generous.

This vintage bottle of Yellow Chartreuse was a housewarming gift at our holiday party this past winter. It has a New York Tax Stamp but no date of any kind. However, being a 500ml bottle I can deduce that it was packaged between 1980 (when the US moved to the metric system) and 1989 (when 500 ml bottles were unallowed.) Since Chartreuse is one of the few spirits that do age in the bottle, I am quite curious to see what is happening in there, but I will wait for a deserving event to crack it.

4 comments:

Alex Newhouse said...

"Since Chartreuse is one of the few spirits that do age in the bottle" [citation needed]

Alex Newhouse said...

"Since Chartreuse is one of the few spirits that do age in the bottle"

Seriously... where did you read that?

Neyah White said...

Apologies to Mr. Newhouse, I misstook your first posting as spam and didnot publish till the second one came in. See the next post for my reponse.

Alex Newhouse said...

thanks