N1 · category
Anise spirits & absinthe
- Family
- Compound spirit
- Raw materials
- Plants & botanicals
- Place of origin
- Mediterranean basin
Pastis, ouzo, raki, absinthe: the great family of anise spirits, united by the milky louche in water and by an eventful history.
Its colour, and what colour owes to craft
The colour of the plant — a colouring maceration, after distilling. See the six regimes of colouring
The thing to remember
Absinthe was banned in France from 1915 to 2011 — a textbook case of heritage erased and then rehabilitated.
Terroirs and geographical indications
The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.
- Absinthe de Pontarlier Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
Sources and validation
- Sources of the corpus
- Names and statuses: eAmbrosia, the official register of geographical indications of the European Union. Geometries: INAO, Délimitation des aires géographiques des SIQO (27/07/2026), Licence Ouverte v2.0, reprojected to WGS84.
- Corpus updated on
- 1 August 2026
- Validation
- Seed entry Corpus under construction. Each entry is checked and sourced before validation by the future scholarly board. Protection status and mode of location are carried by each entry: an area delimited by a product specification and a reference-town point do not carry the same weight.