SPIRIT RAW MATERIALS

what the law lets whisky, rum, brandy and tequila be distilled from — ten spirits, seven raw materials, two regulations

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.

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 · reference · kitchen

Raw materials and strengths — Reg. (EU) 2019/787, Annex I (categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 15, gin — 20) and NOM-006-SCFI-2012 (DOF, 13.12.2012); cross-checked 2026-08-12 against the texts of the standards. The chart shows the law and does not tell anyone what to drink.

BRANDY IS ALWAYS GRAPES

In EU law brandy is made only from wine spirit — distilled grape wine (cat. 5). Plum or cherry distillates live in the separate fruit spirit category (cat. 9), and their legal name is spirit with the name of the fruit — not brandy.

The strictest minimum strength on the map belongs to whisky: 40% vol and up, while 35–37.5 suffices for the other EU categories.

On the sheet

Raw materials and strengths — Reg. (EU) 2019/787, Annex I (categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 15, gin — 20) and NOM-006-SCFI-2012 (DOF, 13.12.2012); cross-checked 2026-08-12 against the texts of the standards. 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 6 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.

SPIRIT RAW MATERIALS

BRANDY IS ALWAYS GRAPES

On the sheet

Printing

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