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The collaborative database

The Atlas of Spirits

The permanent museum will not open until 2032. Its first room, though, is already open : a map of the world heritage of spirits — the categories, the terroirs, the raw materials, and the kinships that connect them.

Categories
24
Terroirs and geographical indications
74
Historical milestones
30
Open sources : eAmbrosia, INAO, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata. Human verification, then validation by an advisor in the field.

New · the guided tour

Seven routes cross the Atlas stop by stop, each with its framing and its label — the crus of Cognac, the French rums, the genever shared by four countries. Enter the tour

The tour

Kinships — what the corpus connects

The constellation has been withdrawn : what it showed is taken up by Kinships, which makes it legible without JavaScript and allows each crossing to be cited.

24 categories · 74 terroirs

Search for a word across the corpus — 98 entries, the tours and the Journal

The corpus, arranged by category

Pommeau 3

Vermouths & apéritifs 1

Bitters & amari

No entry documented so far.

Anise spirits & absinthe 1

Genièvre 3

Gin

No entry documented so far.

Liqueurs & crèmes 5

Armagnac 4

Baijiu 1

Cachaça 1

Calvados 3

Cognac 8

Cider and perry spirits 4

Fruit spirits 6

Grape marc spirits 10

Wine spirits 8

Mezcal 1

Pisco 1

Rum 7

Shochu 1

Soju

No entry documented so far.

Tequila 1

Vodka

No entry documented so far.

Whisky 5

Level N3 · the workshops

The Atlas says where the terroirs are. A second map says where the workshops are — 2,193 establishments recorded in OpenStreetMap, across 24 countries. See where distilling happens

Time

The Timeline

The Atlas says where. The Timeline says when — 30 milestones from the alchemists' still to today's micro-distilleries, each with its source and its degree of certainty.

Browse the Timeline

Method

How the Atlas is built

Document, do not rate

The Atlas neither recommends nor compares any commercial product. It documents categories, techniques, terroirs and objects — the substance of a museum, not of a buyer's guide.

Source, then validate

Every entry is written with its sources, then proofread before publication. SpiLi's future scholarly board will carry out the final validation.

Open, step by step

Categories and terroirs first ; distilleries, collection objects and detailed entries afterwards, at the pace of contributions.

Contribute to the Atlas