N1 · category
Vodka
- Family
- Single-distillate spirit
- Raw materials
- Cereals · Tubers
- Place of origin
- Eastern Europe
Heavily rectified neutral alcohol, from cereals or potato. Its birthplace is disputed between Poland and Russia.
Its colour, and what colour owes to craft
Colourless — nothing after the still. See the six regimes of colouring
The thing to remember
The pursuit of neutrality makes it a borderline case: the category is defined almost by the absence of a marked taste.
Terroirs and geographical indications
No production area is attached to this category in the Atlas yet. It is one of the parts of the corpus we are working to complete.
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.