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Barnebys HQ
Brahegatan 10
BOX 5038
114 37 Stockholm
All auctions / Miscellaneous / Siphon (2) Art Deco
Antique fuchsia CHARTREUSE brand siphons from an international spirits label. Enjoy the photos to understand the beauty of these siphons; they feature red taps or heads from the brand Carbónicas Espumosos Ovidio La Estrada Pontevedra and Carbónicas Espumosos José Aragües Lesaka Navarra. They are highly sought after, a beauty with many years of age, in good condition for collectors and decoration. Seltzer water. They may have slight scuffs or small glass imperfections. They are hand-engraved. CHARTREUSE: it is a French herbal liqueur, made by macerating certain herbs in a high-alcohol distillate. The liqueur gets its name in honor of the Carthusian Grande Chartreuse monastery, “la Gran Cartuja,” and takes its name from the Chartreuse massif in the Alps, the region of France where the monastery is located. History In 1605, the Duke of Estrées handed the Carthusian monks of Paris a strange manuscript with a formula called the “Élixir de Longue Vie” (Elixir of long life). After several unsuccessful attempts, the monks’ herbalists considered the recipe too complex and abandoned it. But the recipe was rescued and a century and a half later the pharmacy of the Grand Carthusian monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, began producing the so-called “Élixir végétal” (Vegetal Elixir) and began marketing it in 1764. Distribution was limited to nearby Grenoble and Chambéry, but its popularity grew. From the vegetal elixir, the Carthusians developed a digestif they called “Liqueur de santé” (Health Liqueur). The French Revolution dispersed the monastic order in 1793 and the monks stopped distilling their liqueur. In 1816, they returned to the Grande Chartreuse monastery and resumed their activity. From 1840 they produced the so-called yellow Chartreuse, milder than its predecessor, the green Chartreuse. In 1860 they built the monastery’s distillery. In 1903 the Carthusians were expelled from France. They took their secret and opened a distillery in Tarragona (Spain), which became the center for producing the liqueur, called “Tarragona.” It was also made in Marseille from 1921 to 1929, under the same name “Tarragona.”
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