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Produced exclusively by the Carthusian Monks at the Aiguenoire distillery in Entre-deux-Guiers, Isère, France, using a manuscript recipe of 130 botanicals dating to 1605, the V.E.P. designation — \u003cem\u003eVieillissement Exceptionnellement Prolongé\u003c\/em\u003e, or \"Exceptionally Prolonged Aging\" — was introduced in 1963 to identify batches hand-selected by the monks for years of additional maturation far beyond the standard bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere standard Green Chartreuse is bold and intensely herbal at 55% ABV, the V.E.P. undergoes at least \u003cstrong\u003e8 years of aging in small oak demi-muid casks\u003c\/strong\u003e, transforming the same 130-botanical recipe into something measurably deeper, silkier, and more refined without losing the vivid alpine intensity the green expression is famous for. 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