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MINIMUM MATURATION

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MINIMUM MATURATION

how long each spirit must sit in the barrel before it may bear its name — fifteen legal minimums on one scale

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
drinks · everyone · comparison · kitchen

The minimums come from the standards in force: 27 CFR 5.143 · Reg. (EU) 2019/787 · NOM-006-SCFI-2012 · AOC Cognac (BNIC) · Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009 · Irish Whiskey Act 1980 · Canadian Food Compositional Standards (SFCR); cross-checked 2026-08-12 against the texts of the standards themselves. The chart shows the law and does not tell anyone what to drink.

BOURBON DOES NOT WAIT A DAY

Scotch, Irish and Canadian whisky must by law sleep in the barrel for at least 3 years. Bourbon is bound differently: a new charred oak barrel and no minimum time at all; only what is called straight bourbon owes 2 years.

The shortest minimum on the scale is 2 months for reposado, the longest — 14 years for XXO: 84 times as long.

On the sheet

  • The minimums come from the standards in force: 27 CFR 5.143 · Reg. (EU) 2019/787 · NOM-006-SCFI-2012 · AOC Cognac (BNIC) · Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009 · Irish Whiskey Act 1980 · Canadian Food Compositional Standards (SFCR); cross-checked 2026-08-12 against the texts of the standards themselves. The chart shows the law and does not tell anyone what to drink.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 7 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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