N2 · terroir / geographical indication
Scotch Whisky — GI
- Location
- Scotland, United Kingdom56.80 / -4.20
- Protection
- Geographical indication registered in the European UnionFile PGI-GB-01854 · in the Union since 12 June 1989
- Validation
- Seed entryawaiting the scholarly board
Geographical indication entered in the Union register as a third-country GI. Scotch whisky, distilled and matured for at least three years in Scotland.
A geographical indication or an appellation guarantees an origin and compliance with a controlled product specification. It says nothing about the quality of any particular bottle, nor about how artisanal the producer is: it is a guarantee of provenance and method, not a score.
No official delimitation being published as open data for this entry, the point placed on the map is an indicative marker — a town or a territory — and not the outline of the area. It situates; it does not delimit.
The distilleries of this area
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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.
- File reference
- PGI-GB-01854 eAmbrosia register of the European Union
- Protection in the Union
- Since 12 June 1989 Official Journal C 174, 25.5.2020 — eAmbrosia record of 29 August 2026
- 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.