There is a fabulous legend around how the name calvados first came about...

The world’s first vintage champagne was made in 1810, just outside the city of Reims in northeastern France, by a bright, bold, business-savvy trailblazing widow (‘veuve’ in French) called Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, forever immortalised as Veuve Clicquot.

The story of the first Green Chartreuse, the famous French liqueur still hand-crafted in the Chartreuse Mountains, is steeped in myth, monks and a mysterious manuscript. Before we get to the colourful heart of the tale, we need to go back a thousand years or so to set the scene. The Carthusian Order (Chartreuse in French) began in 1084 when Bruno Hartenfaust, chancellor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims in northern France, rejected the Church for being corrupt. Along