N1 · category
Liqueurs & crèmes
- Family
- Liqueur
- Raw materials
- Plants & botanicals · Fruit
- Place of origin
- Europe
Maceration or infusion of plants, fruit or spices, with added sugar. Chartreuse, Bénédictine, Clacquesin: a heritage often born in monasteries and apothecaries.
Its colour, and what colour owes to craft
The colour of the fruit — the fruit itself, macerated. See the six regimes of colouring
The thing to remember
Many historic recipes are medicinal in origin — the line between remedy and pleasure is the thread running through this family.
Terroirs and geographical indications
The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.
- Cassis de Bourgogne Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Cassis de Dijon Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Cassis de Saintonge Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Génépi des Alpes Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France and Italy
- Ratafia champenois 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.