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SpiLi documents spirits; it is not alone in doing so. Here are the other places where that knowledge is set down — a review kept up for twenty years, a European register, a museum housed in a distillery that still runs. Each is here for what can be found there, written in one sentence.

This directory ranks nothing. There are no scores, no league tables, no order of preference: sources are arranged by type and by country, and SpiLi does not answer for what they publish. No entry is a quid pro quo: no source pays for its place, and a link given in return guarantees none. Sales pages, price comparison sites and purchase links are excluded on principle — and the check that enforces this runs every time the site is built.

In France

32 sources

France has distilled for centuries and documents little: the specialist press is thin, authors' blogs do part of the archival work, and most regulatory knowledge lives with the trade bodies.

Specialist press and magazines

  • Rumporter (new window)

    French magazine devoted to rum: news from the producers, production reports, accounts of fairs and tastings.

    On this site: Rum

    rumporter.com FR fr checked on 2026-08-30

  • Whisky Magazine France (new window)

    French edition of Whisky Magazine: whisky, rum and spirits, industry investigations and tasting notes.

    On this site: Whisky Rum

    whiskymag.fr FR fr checked on 2026-08-30

  • BARMAG (new window)

    Trade review of the bar professions: service, mixology, the economics of night-time venues.

    barmag.fr FR fr checked on 2026-08-30

  • Rayon Boissons (new window)

    Trade press of drinks distribution in France: market data, product listings, industry moves.

    rayon-boissons.com FR fr checked on 2026-08-30

  • Vitisphere (new window)

    Daily press of the vine and wine industry, including what concerns spirits: crisis distillation, vine pulling, the market for Charente spirits.

    On this site: Wine spirits Cognac

    vitisphere.com FR fr checked on 2026-08-30

Blogs and authors' reviews

Trade bodies, federations, administrations

Associations, clubs and brotherhoods

Museums, archives, libraries

Fairs, competitions, festivals

Public health and prevention

  • Association Addictions France (new window)

    Prevention and documentation of alcohol-related risks: epidemiological data, analyses of the legal framework, support resources.

    addictions-france.org FR fr checked on 2026-08-30

Around the world

36 sources

Elsewhere, writing on spirits is older and denser — collaborative databases, trade reviews, national genever museums. That is where the reference works France lacks are to be found.

Specialist press and magazines

  • The Spirits Business (new window)

    International trade press for spirits: capital movements, launches, industry data.

    thespiritsbusiness.com GB en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Drinks International (new window)

    British trade review of drinks: brand rankings, bar trends, market analyses.

    drinksint.com GB en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Whisky Advocate (new window)

    American whisky magazine: distillery reports, histories of the houses, tasting archives.

    On this site: Whisky Bourbon

    whiskyadvocate.com US en checked on 2026-08-30

  • The Whiskey Wash (new window)

    News and investigations on American and international whiskey, following craft distilleries.

    On this site: Whisky

    thewhiskeywash.com US en checked on 2026-08-30

  • PUNCH (new window)

    American review of drinks culture: social history of the bar, long-form investigations and the genealogy of recipes.

    punchdrink.com US en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Imbibe Magazine (new window)

    American drinks magazine: reports on producers, history of styles and serving practices.

    imbibemagazine.com US en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Whisky Magazine (new window)

    British reference magazine on whisky since 1999: distillery reports, tasting panels and the World Whiskies Awards.

    On this site: Whisky

    whiskymag.com GB en checked on 2026-08-30

Blogs and authors' reviews

  • Words of Whisky (new window)

    Dutch blog of tastings and distillery visits, kept with a consistent apparatus of notes.

    On this site: Whisky

    wordsofwhisky.com NL en checked on 2026-08-30

  • The Fat Rum Pirate (new window)

    British rum tasting blog, one of the few to document blends and added-sugar levels systematically.

    On this site: Rum

    thefatrumpirate.com GB en checked on 2026-08-30

  • The Lone Caner (new window)

    Single-author rum chronicles, with sustained work on the history of the distilleries of Guyana and the Caribbean.

    On this site: Rum

    thelonecaner.com CA en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Cocktail Wonk (new window)

    Matt Pietrek's documentary work on rum production: still configurations, distillery marques, supply chains.

    On this site: Rum

    cocktailwonk.com US en checked on 2026-08-30 the site blocks robots: status cannot be checked

  • Alcademics (new window)

    Camper English's blog: experiments with ice and clarification, history of bar ingredients and techniques.

    alcademics.com US en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Mezcalistas (new window)

    Review devoted to mezcal: agaves, palenques, the economics of Oaxacan producers and the consequences of international demand.

    On this site: Mezcal Mezcal

    mezcalistas.com US, MX en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Nomunication (new window)

    English-language resource on Japanese whisky and spirits: distilleries, the Japanese regulatory framework and bar culture in Tokyo.

    On this site: Whisky Shochu

    nomunication.jp JP en checked on 2026-08-30

Databases and reference works

  • eAmbrosia — registre européen des IG (new window)

    The official register of the Union's geographical indications: files, product specifications and registration dates of protected spirits. Source of the dates in the corpus.

    ec.europa.eu EU fr · en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Wikidata (new window)

    Free knowledge base: identifiers, referenced founding dates and links for distilleries. Source, with OpenStreetMap, of the corpus of 2,193 distilleries.

    wikidata.org INT fr · en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Whiskybase (new window)

    Collaborative database of whisky bottlings: references, vintages, labels and the history of series — the de facto reference for enthusiasts.

    On this site: Whisky Scotch Whisky

    whiskybase.com NL en checked on 2026-08-30 the site blocks robots: status cannot be checked

  • RumX (new window)

    Collaborative rum database: bottling records, measurements of added sugar and aggregated tasting notes.

    On this site: Rum

    rumx.com DE en checked on 2026-08-30

  • RumRatings (new window)

    Community rum database fed by its members' ratings: useful as a record of usage, never as a production reference.

    On this site: Rum

    rumratings.com US en checked on 2026-08-30 the site blocks robots: status cannot be checked

  • Agave Matchmaker (new window)

    Database of tequilas and mezcals: producers, NOM numbers, declared cooking and extraction processes — one of the few records of method at this scale.

    On this site: Tequila Mezcal Tequila Mezcal

    agavematchmaker.com MX, US en · es checked on 2026-08-30

  • Difford's Guide (new window)

    British encyclopaedia of cocktails and spirits: dated recipes and category pages with their history.

    diffordsguide.com GB en checked on 2026-08-30

  • Scotchwhisky.com (new window)

    Reference guide to Scottish distilleries: one page per distillery, ownership history, capacity and style of production.

    On this site: Whisky Scotch Whisky

    scotchwhisky.com GB en checked on 2026-08-30

Trade bodies, federations, administrations

Museums, archives, libraries

Fairs, competitions, festivals

What this directory says

A map, not a ranking

It is incomplete, and says so

68 sources in 13 countries or areas, 32 of them in France: this is a seed, not a survey of the world. The directory grows through successive additions, and every address is checked before it is added — none is copied from a third-party list without verification.

A source appears only once

The build check refuses two entries for the same domain. That is the flaw of directories measured by their number of lines: they count pages and announce sources. Here the counter says what it counts.

People are listed for their work

A person appears here for what they publish — their review, their blog, their register —, never through a social-media profile. Any request for removal is honoured: it is recorded in the corpus, with its date.

Last full check on 2026-08-30. Is a source missing? Let us know — it will be examined before it goes in, like the others.