According to an article published on January 8, 2018 in the German newspaper Die Zeit, the secret recipes for Mechitharine's six varieties are considered partially lost, following the death of one of the Armenian Fathers responsible for its production. The sole surviving Father with knowledge of the recipes production lives with advanced dementia, making him unable to ordain a younger brother in the art of creating the liqueur. The monastery projects it has enough stock for the next two years, and the current cellar master is working to reconstruct the recipes using purchasing records and chemical analysis.[4]