N1 · category
Grape marc spirits
- Family
- Single-distillate spirit
- Raw materials
- Grape
- Place of origin
- France
Spirit distilled from marc — skins, pips and stalks left by pressing. Born of the economics of the vineyard, it follows its map: ten French geographical indications, one per major wine region.
Its colour, and what colour owes to craft
Amber that must be earned — a year in wood before any adjustment. See the six regimes of colouring
The thing to remember
Marc is the winegrower's spirit before it is the distiller's: its raw material is a residue of winemaking, not a dedicated harvest.
Terroirs and geographical indications
The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.
- Marc champenois Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc d'Alsace Gewurztraminer Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc d'Auvergne Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc de Bourgogne Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc de Provence Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc de Savoie Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc des Côtes-du-Rhône Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc du Bugey Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc du Jura Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Marc du Languedoc 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.