Chartreuse (liqueur) Titanic in 1912, one of the proposed dishes for First class was a Chartreuse based dessert. Sales at the French company were very poor, and by 1929, it faced bankruptcy. A group of local businessmen in Voiron bought all the shares at a low price and sent them as a gift to the monks in Tarragona. After regaining possession of the distillery, the Carthusian brothers returned to the monastery with the tacit approval of the French government and began to produce Chartreuse once again. Despite the eviction law, when a mudslide destroyed the distillery in 1935, the French government assigned
Navan liqueur 2010, the Lapostolle family ceased making Navan. After repackaging and tweaking the formula, Navan did not sell the way the family had hoped. When creating Navan, more than 150 eaux-de-vie from 500 distilleries are blended. Natural vanilla from Madagascar is flown to France where it is blended with fine French cognac that has been aged for up to 10 years. Once blended, Navan ages an additional six months. Navan liqueur Navan (nah-váhn), is a vanilla liqueur produced by the House of Grand Marnier. Navan's name stands for "Natural Vanilla". The vanilla beans are imported from Madagascar. Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle, current