Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...

Meeting the global demand for their historic herbal liqueur got to be too much for the Carthusian monks who have worked and prayed silently in the Alps north of Grenoble, France for centuries. Earlier ...

In my early days of working in a bar, there were certain bottles that I simply never touched. They sat there unloved, unused and unknown, tucked away deep in the back bar of endless bottles, wholly ...

The first thing you notice is the color, a particular and lovely translucent green, the green of a deep tropical sea, of a primeval planet steaming in the sun, yet modern, too, a glowing neon, a ...

ReportageAvec son histoire multiséculaire et sa mystérieuse recette aux plantes, la « reine des liqueurs » affiche toujours une réussite insolente, en Isère, où elle est produite par des moines et des ...