Chartreuse (liqueur) year. As they have been making Chartreuse from local plants for centuries, the monks started in the 2000s to make a Génépi as a sideline product. It is labelled "Génépi des Pères Chartreux" and is generally only available locally in a 70cl bottle, usually labelled 40% alcohol. In 2007, a special edition was created by the "Meilleurs Ouvriers de France" Sommeliers (Best Craftsmen of France) in partnership with the distillery. It is yellow in color (40% alcohol). Chartreuse has a very strong characteristic taste. It is very sweet, but becomes both spicy and pungent. It is comparable to other herbal
Monks Kirby Priory the hands of the Fielding family, the Earls of Denbigh, with whom it descended for many years. The priory church became the parish church of St Edith, Monks Kirby, which is a grade I listed building. Monks Kirby Priory Monks Kirby Priory was a priory, at first Benedictine and later Carthusian, in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, England. It was founded in 1077 at what was then known as Kirkbury, by the Breton, Geoffrey de Wirche (or Guerche), who had been granted lands in the area as a reward for his support of William of Normandy. He granted some of his land