N1 · category
Whisky
- Family
- Single-distillate spirit
- Raw materials
- Cereals
- Place of origin
- British Isles
Cereal spirit, malted or not, matured in wood. Scotland, Ireland, the United States, Japan, France — and now the whole world.
Its colour, and what colour owes to craft
Amber from the cask, adjustable — maturation in wood, caramel allowed to even it out. See the six regimes of colouring
The thing to remember
Ageing in oak casks, compulsory under most appellations, shapes most of the aromatic profile.
Terroirs and geographical indications
The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.
- Whisky alsacien Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Whisky breton Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Scotch Whisky Geographical indication registered in the European Union · United Kingdom
- Irish Whiskey Geographical indication registered in the European Union · Ireland
- Bourbon Distinctive product recognised under a bilateral agreement · United States
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.