Chartreuse (liqueur) and VEP Yellow have generally earned similarly impressive scores. The basic Yellow Chartreuse has received more modest (though still average or above) ratings. Works cited Chartreuse (liqueur) Chartreuse () is a French liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605. It is composed of distilled alcohol aged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers. The liqueur is named after the monks' Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the Chartreuse Mountains in the general region of Grenoble in France. The liqueur is produced in their
Yellow-green grosbeak or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest. Yellow-green grosbeak The yellow-green grosbeak ("Caryothraustes canadensis") is a species of grosbeak in the family Cardinalidae. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow-green grosbeak in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Cayenne in French Guiana. He used the French name "Le Gros-bec de Cayenne" and the Latin name "Coccothraustes Cayanensis". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl