Two hundred and eighty-two brand guides to spirits and liqueurs — whisky, gin, vodka, rum, tequila, mezcal, cognac, amari and liqueurs.

Most famous spirits names now belong to a handful of drinks groups, while some distilleries are still family-run. Each guide says who owns the name today and where it is distilled.

Whisky

The whisky guides run from Scotch single malts such as Glenfiddich, The Macallan, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Talisker and Springbank, and blends such as Chivas Regal, Dewar’s, Ballantine’s and Grant’s, to Irish whiskey (Bushmills, Redbreast, Teeling, Midleton), bourbon (Buffalo Trace, Blanton’s, Woodford Reserve, Maker’s Mark), rye, Canadian whisky (Crown Royal, Canadian Club, Lot No. 40) and Japanese whisky (Hibiki, Nikka, Hakushu).

White spirits

The gin guides include Tanqueray, Beefeater, Hendrick’s, Sipsmith, Monkey 47, The Botanist and Roku; the vodka guides Belvedere, Ketel One, Stolichnaya, Tito’s, Żubrówka and Chopin; and the agave guides José Cuervo, Patrón, Don Julio, Clase Azul, Del Maguey and Montelobos. Rum runs from Havana Club and Captain Morgan to Planteray, Diplomático, El Dorado and the French Caribbean rhums agricoles of Rhum Clément, Rhum J.M and Damoiseau.

Brandy, amari and liqueurs

The guides also cover cognac (Rémy Martin, Martell, Hine, Delamain), calvados and grappa (Nonino, Nardini), Italian amari (Fernet-Branca, Averna, Montenegro, Braulio), aperitifs and vermouth (Lillet, Noilly Prat, Carpano), and liqueurs from Chartreuse and Bénédictine to Baileys, Kahlúa and Disaronno.

How to use these guides

Each guide covers who owns the name today, where the products are made — by the maker’s own account and, where it differs, by other sources — and the brand’s visual identity. A company’s description of itself is attributed to the company, and where a business has closed we say so plainly. The table at the end gathers the essentials.

Italian amari and liqueurs

Fernet-Branca, Averna, Ramazzotti, Montenegro, Cynar, Strega and Galliano.

• Fernet-Branca — The Milan amaro first made by Bernardino Branca in 1845, still owned by the Branca family through Branca International, with an eagle-and-globe trademark credited to Leopoldo Metlicovitz and registered in 1905, and a long run of calendars, posters and Carosello films.
• Averna — The Sicilian amaro the Averna family began making in Caltanissetta in 1868, whose label carried the “Brevetto della Real Casa” from 1912, sold to Campari in 2014 and in 2026 to the Disaronno group of ILLVA Saronno.
• Ramazzotti — The amaro first made in Milan in 1815 by the Bolognese pharmacist Ausano Ramazzotti, sold to Pernod Ricard in 1985 and now made at Canelli in Piedmont, whose advertising ran from Carosello to the 1987 “Milano da bere” spot.
• Amaro Montenegro — The Bologna amaro created in 1885 by Stanislao Cobianchi as Elisir Lungavita, renamed in 1896 for Princess Elena of Montenegro, sold in an ampoule-shaped bottle redrawn in 2017, and made by Gruppo Montenegro near Bologna.
• Cynar — The artichoke amaro created at G.B. Pezziol in Padua, owned by the Dalle Molle family, from a 1948 formula; on sale by the early 1950s, made famous by Ernesto Calindri’s Carosello ads, and a Campari brand since 1995.
• Strega — The saffron-yellow herbal liqueur made in Benevento since 1860 by the Alberti family beside the railway station, named after the town’s witch legends, advertised by Dudovich and Depero, and the name behind Italy’s Premio Strega literary prize, founded in 1947.
• Galliano — The golden vanilla-and-anise liqueur Arturo Vaccari created in Livorno in 1896, sold in a tall bottle the company says was inspired by Roman temple columns, promoted in 1969 with the Harvey Wallbanger, owned by Rémy Cointreau from 1989 and by Lucas Bols since 2006.

Liqueurs and aperitifs

Baileys, Kahlúa, Disaronno, Martini, Cinzano, Molinari and Becherovka.

• Baileys — The Irish cream liqueur dreamed up in London in 1973 by David Gluckman and Hugh Seymour-Davies for Gilbeys of Ireland, launched in 1974 in a borrowed whiskey bottle with a rural label, and owned today by Diageo.
• Kahlúa — The coffee liqueur that says it was born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1936, which Jules Berman built in the US with pre-Columbian figures in its ads, which passed through Allied Domecq to Pernod Ricard in 2005, and whose bottle was redrawn in 2007 and 2021.
• Disaronno — The amaretto made by the Reina family’s ILLVA Saronno, founded in 1947 from Domenico Reina’s Saronno shop, sold as Amaretto di Saronno until 2001, told through a 1525 Luini legend and a square-capped bottle the company traces to Murano.
• Martini — The vermouth of Martini & Rossi, founded in Turin in 1863 by Alessandro Martini, Teofilo Sola and the herbalist Luigi Rossi, made at Pessione since 1864, with a ball-and-bar logo registered in 1929, Martini Racing stripes and Bacardi ownership since 1993.
• Cinzano — The Turin vermouth and sparkling-wine name traced to the brothers Carlo Stefano and Giovanni Giacomo Cinzano in 1757, owned by Grand Metropolitan, Diageo and Campari, sold to Caffo Group 1915 in 2025, with a red-and-blue logo the company dates to 1925.
• Molinari — The sambuca Angelo Molinari began making in Civitavecchia in 1945 on a star-anise recipe, still run by the Molinari family, with a Colfelice plant, a 2017 bottle by Robilant & Associati and a 2020 anniversary edition illustrated by Olimpia Zagnoli.
• Becherovka — The Karlovy Vary herbal liqueur that Josef Vitus Becher first sold in 1807, bottled in a flat bottle shape proposed in 1866, owned by Pernod Ricard from 2001 and by Poland’s Maspex since 1 May 2024.

Tequila, anise, Greek and Spanish spirits

José Cuervo, Patrón, Ricard, Pernod, Metaxa, Ouzo 12 and Licor 43.

• José Cuervo — The tequila brand from Tequila, Jalisco, whose family traces a land grant to 1758 and a royal licence to 1795, made at La Rojeña, run by the Beckmann family and listed in Mexico as Becle since 2017.
• Patrón — The tequila brand bought in 1989 by John Paul DeJoria and Martin Crowley, made at Hacienda Patrón in Atotonilco el Alto in the Jalisco Highlands, sold in numbered glass bottles with a bee mark, and owned by Bacardi since 2018.
• Ricard — The pastis Paul Ricard launched in Marseille in 1932 as “the real pastis of Marseille,” whose blue and yellow, water jugs and barware carried the brand through French advertising bans, and which joined Pernod in 1975 to form Pernod Ricard.
• Pernod — The French anise apéritif that joins two unrelated Pernod houses: Henri-Louis Pernod’s Pontarlier absinthe firm of 1805 and the Avignon Pernod Père et Fils, which launched Anis Pernod in 1918; merged as Établissements Pernod in 1928 and with Ricard in 1975.
• Metaxa — The amber Greek spirit Spyros Metaxa created in Piraeus in 1888, blending wine distillates with Muscat wine, with its Salamina Warrior emblem, numbered stars, a 1963 Amphora bottle, a Kifissia distillery since 1968 and a place in Rémy Cointreau since 2000.
• Ouzo 12 — The Greek ouzo the Kalogiannis family began making in Constantinople in 1880, named, its owners say, after a favourite barrel No. 12, moved to Thessaloniki in 1925 and Piraeus in 1950, and part of Gruppo Campari since 1999.
• Licor 43 — The golden liqueur the Zamora siblings and Emilio Restoy began making in Cartagena, Spain, in 1946, named for its 43 ingredients, sold over crushed ice as Pilé 43 in the 1970s and still owned by the family’s Zamora Company.

Irish and Scotch whisky

Bushmills, Tullamore D.E.W., Glenfiddich, The Glenlivet, The Macallan, Chivas Regal and The Famous Grouse.

• Bushmills — The Irish whiskey made in Bushmills, County Antrim, whose labels cite a 1608 royal licence and whose distillery company dates from 1784, owned by Irish Distillers, Pernod Ricard and Diageo before passing to Proximo Spirits, part of Becle, in a deal agreed in 2014.
• Tullamore D.E.W. — The Irish whiskey from Tullamore, County Offaly, where a distillery opened in 1829, named with the initials of manager Daniel E. Williams, sold to Powers in 1965, owned by William Grant & Sons since 2010 and redesigned around an Irish wolfhound in 2024.
• Glenfiddich — The Dufftown single malt distillery begun by William Grant and his sons in 1886, which first ran spirit on Christmas Day 1887, took its stag from a Gaelic name meaning “valley of the deer” and was sold in Hans Schleger’s triangular bottle.
• The Glenlivet — The Speyside single malt founded at Upper Drumin in 1824 by George Smith and his son John Gordon Smith under one of the first licences of the 1823 Excise Act, which went to law over its name, passed to Seagram in 1977 and is now Pernod Ricard’s.
• The Macallan — The Speyside single malt licensed to Alexander Reid at Craigellachie in 1824, built on sherry-oak casks by Roderick Kemp from 1892, owned by Edrington since 1999, and distilled since 2018 in a Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners building.
• Chivas Regal — The blended Scotch created in 1909 by Chivas Brothers’ blender Charles Stewart Howard, rooted in an Aberdeen grocery opened in 1801, owned by Seagram from 1949 and by Pernod Ricard since 2001, with Strathisla in Keith as its home distillery.
• The Famous Grouse — The blended Scotch first made in 1896 by Matthew Gloag & Son, Perth wine merchants, renamed in 1905, sold to Highland Distillers in 1970 and bought by William Grant & Sons from Edrington in a deal completed in July 2025.

American whiskey and rum

Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, Wild Turkey, Havana Club, Captain Morgan, Sailor Jerry and Kraken.

• Jim Beam — The Kentucky bourbon the company dates to Jacob Beam’s first barrel in 1795, sold as Old Tub from 1880, renamed for James B. Beam in 1943, rebuilt at Clermont after Prohibition and owned by Suntory since 2014.
• Maker’s Mark — The wheated Kentucky bourbon of Loretto, where Bill Samuels Sr. bought the old Burks distillery in 1953 and first bottled in 1958, and whose name, bottle, label and dipped red wax seal the company credits to Margie Samuels.
• Wild Turkey — The Kentucky straight bourbon from Lawrenceburg, named after a 1940 turkey hunt by an Austin, Nichols executive, distilled at the former Ripy family plant, owned by Pernod Ricard from 1980 and Campari since 2009, and shaped by master distillers Jimmy and Eddie Russell.
• Havana Club — The rum launched in 1934 by José Arechabala S.A. of Cárdenas, nationalised in 1960, made at Santa Cruz del Norte and sold worldwide since 1993 by Havana Club International, the Pernod Ricard and Cuba Ron joint venture, under a red and gold label with the Giraldilla.
• Captain Morgan — The rum brand Seagram began making in 1944, named after the Welsh privateer Henry Morgan, whose Original Spiced Rum reached the United States in 1984 and which Diageo has owned since 2001, with rum distilled on St Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
• Sailor Jerry — The spiced rum named after Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins, the Honolulu tattoo artist, created by Sailor Jerry Ltd, formed in 1999 by Ed Hardy, Mike Malone and Steven Grasse, and owned since 2008 by William Grant & Sons, with Collins’s hula girl on the label.
• The Kraken — The black spiced rum Proximo Spirits launched in 2009–2010, sold in a Victorian-style bottle with two ring handles and a black-and-white label of a giant squid, and marketed with a sea-monster legend, tentacle billboards and illustrated limited editions.

Gin

Tanqueray, Gordon’s, Beefeater, Hendrick’s, Plymouth, Sipsmith and Monkey 47.

• Tanqueray — The London dry gin Charles Tanqueray began distilling in Bloomsbury in 1830, merged with Gordon’s in 1898, owned by Diageo since 1997, now made at Cameronbridge in Scotland and known for its green cocktail-shaker-inspired bottle and red seal.
• Gordon’s — The London dry gin Alexander Gordon began distilling in Southwark in 1769, known for its square-faced green UK bottle and boar’s-head cap, merged with Tanqueray in 1898, owned by Diageo since 1997 and made at Cameronbridge in Fife since 1998.
• Beefeater — The London dry gin James Burrough developed at his Chelsea distillery from the 1860s, distilled in Kennington since 1958, sold by the family to Whitbread in 1987, passed to Allied-Lyons in 1989 and owned by Pernod Ricard since 2005.
• Hendrick’s — The gin William Grant & Sons launched in 1999, distilled at Girvan in South Ayrshire from a Bennett pot still and a Carter-Head still, finished with rose and cucumber, sold in an apothecary-style bottle, and past one million cases a year by 2017.
• Plymouth Gin — Distilled at the Black Friars Distillery on Plymouth’s Barbican since 1793, relaunched in 1998 with its thirsty monk, owned by Pernod Ricard since 2008, and once England’s only spirit with an EU geographical indication.
• Sipsmith — The London gin distillery founded by Sam Galsworthy, Fairfax Hall and Jared Brown, which made its first gin in 2009 on a 300-litre still called Prudence, built its swan identity with big fish, and has been controlled by Beam Suntory, now Suntory Global Spirits, since 2016.
• Monkey 47 — The Schwarzwald Dry Gin launched in 2010 by Alexander Stein, made with 47 botanicals at 47% ABV in Loßburg, sold in a brown apothecary-style bottle with a stamp-like label, and owned by Pernod Ricard (majority 2016, in full from 2020).

Vodka

Belvedere, Ketel One, Stolichnaya, Russian Standard, Finlandia, Tito’s and Żubrówka.

• Belvedere — The Polish rye vodka launched in 1993 at the Żyrardów distillery, named after Warsaw’s Belweder palace shown on its bottle, taken to the US in 1996 and owned by LVMH’s Moët Hennessy since a 2002 stake was raised to full control in 2005.
• Ketel One — The wheat vodka of the Nolet distillery in Schiedam, a family business dating from 1691, created in 1983 by the tenth generation for the US market, named after the copper still Distilleerketel No. 1, and run in partnership with Diageo since 2008.
• Stolichnaya — The Soviet wheat-and-rye vodka whose name means “of the capital,” with a trademark dated 1938, a gold-script label over Moscow’s Hotel Moskva, bottled in Riga by Yuri Shefler’s SPI Group and renamed Stoli in 2022.
• Russian Standard — The premium vodka launched in 1998 by Roustam Tariko’s Russian Standard company, distilled in St Petersburg since 2006 with Lake Ladoga water by its own account, extended with Platinum and Imperia, and told through an 1894 Mendeleev story.
• Finlandia — The Finnish barley vodka launched by the state alcohol company Alko in 1970 in Tapio Wirkkala’s “Frozen Ice” bottle, owned by Brown-Forman from 2004 and by Coca-Cola HBC since 2023, and still distilled at Koskenkorva and bottled at Rajamäki.
• Tito’s — The corn vodka Bert “Tito” Beveridge began distilling in a pot still in Austin, Texas, licensed in 1995 and sold from 1997, still made in Austin by his independent company Fifth Generation, which took a majority stake in Lalo Tequila in 2025.
• Żubrówka — The Polish bison-grass vodka made at Polmos Białystok since 1928, with a hand-placed blade of grass from the Białowieża area in each bottle, owned by CEDC, which passed from Roust to Poland’s Maspex Group in 2022.

Cognac and champagne

Rémy Martin, Martell, Courvoisier, Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Dom Pérignon and Bollinger.

• Rémy Martin — The Cognac house founded in 1724, whose centaur emblem dates from Paul-Emile Rémy Martin’s time, whose Louis XIII decanter dates from 1874, which blends only Fine Champagne cognac and has been part of Rémy Cointreau since the 1990 merger with Cointreau.
• Martell — The Cognac house founded in 1715 by Jean Martell of Jersey, whose swift-and-hammers coat of arms has served as its emblem since, which launched Cordon Bleu in 1912 and has belonged to Pernod Ricard since Seagram’s drinks business was broken up in 2001.
• Courvoisier — The cognac house that traces its roots to Bercy in 1809 and has long been based in Jarnac on the Charente, known for its Napoleon silhouette and Joséphine bottle, and owned by Campari Group since 2024.
• Moët & Chandon — The Épernay champagne house founded by Claude Moët in 1743, renamed in 1833, merged with Hennessy in 1971 and part of LVMH since 1987, known for Moët Impérial and its Avenue de Champagne home.
• Veuve Clicquot — The Reims champagne house founded in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot, run from 1805 by his son’s widow Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, which adopted its yellow label in 1877 and joined Louis Vuitton in 1986, a year before LVMH was formed.
• Dom Pérignon — The vintage-only prestige champagne made by Moët & Chandon, named after the Benedictine cellarer of Hautvillers Abbey, whose name came to Moët from Mercier in 1927, whose first vintage was 1921 and which has been an LVMH brand since 1987.
• Bollinger — The family-run Champagne house founded in Aÿ on 6 February 1829 as Renaudin-Bollinger & Cie, led by Lily Bollinger from 1941 to 1971, known for Special Cuvée, R.D. and Vieilles Vignes Françaises, and linked with the James Bond films since 1973.

French and European liqueurs

Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Chartreuse, Bénédictine, Chambord, St-Germain and Cherry Heering.

• Cointreau — The orange liqueur from Angers, where Adolphe Cointreau began making liqueurs in 1849 with his brother Édouard-Jean; Édouard Cointreau’s clear orange liqueur, the square amber bottle, the 1898 Pierrot and the 1989–1991 merger that formed Rémy Cointreau.
• Grand Marnier — The cognac and bitter-orange liqueur created in 1880 by Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle, heir by marriage to an 1827 distillery at Neauphle-le-Château, named with help from César Ritz, sold as Cordon Rouge, and owned by Campari Group since 2016.
• Chartreuse — The herbal liqueur of the Carthusian monks, traced by the order to a 1605 manuscript, made in green and yellow since 1840, signed by Dom Louis Garnier since the 1840s, sold by Chartreuse Diffusion and distilled at Aiguenoire since 2018.
• Bénédictine — The herbal liqueur launched in Fécamp, Normandy, by the merchant Alexandre Le Grand in 1863, sold with a monastic legend and the D.O.M. motto, made at the Palais Bénédictine, and owned by Bacardi since its 1992 purchase of Martini & Rossi.
• Chambord — The black raspberry liqueur launched in the early 1980s by the Cooper family’s Philadelphia firm Charles Jacquin et Cie, made in the Loire Valley, sold in an orb-shaped bottle, and owned since 2006 by Brown-Forman.
• St-Germain — The elderflower liqueur created by Robert J. Cooper and launched in 2007 by his Cooper Spirits Company, named after Saint-Germain-des-Prés, sold in an eight-sided bottle that won a D&AD Wood Pencil, and owned by Bacardi since 2013.
• Cherry Heering — The Danish cherry liqueur that Peter F. Heering’s Copenhagen firm dates to 1818, tied in trade reports to the Singapore Sling, owned by the Dutch distiller De Kuyper since 2017 and given its first new bottle in over 30 years in 2024.

Liqueurs and spirits

Drambuie, Frangelico, Malibu, Southern Comfort, Tia Maria, Pimm’s and Sheridan’s.

• Drambuie — The Scotch whisky, heather honey, herb and spice liqueur developed by James Ross on Skye, trademarked in 1893, built up in Edinburgh by Calum and Gina MacKinnon from 1914, and owned by William Grant & Sons since 2014.
• Frangelico — The hazelnut liqueur created in 1978 by the Barbero family of Canale, Piedmont, named for a legendary hermit monk, sold in a bottle shaped like a friar’s habit with a cord at the waist, and owned by Gruppo Campari since 2010.
• Malibu — The coconut-flavoured rum liqueur conceived in 1978 by Tom Jago, James Espey and Peter Fleck, launched in 1980 in a white bottle with palm trees, sold by Diageo to Allied Domecq in 2002 and owned by Pernod Ricard since 2005.
• Southern Comfort — The whiskey liqueur M. W. Heron created in New Orleans in 1874, sold in sealed bottles as “None Genuine But Mine,” owned by Brown-Forman from 1979 and by New Orleans’ Sazerac since 2016, which restored whiskey to the blend in 2017.
• Tia Maria — The dark coffee liqueur born in 1940s Jamaica with Dr Ken Evans and Morris Cargill, owned by Hiram Walker, Allied-Lyons and Pernod Ricard, and sold in July 2009 to Illva Saronno, the Italian maker of Disaronno.
• Pimm’s — The gin-based fruit cup created by James Pimm, a Kent farmer’s son who ran an oyster bar in the City of London, dated 1823 by some sources and 1840 by the label, owned by Diageo since 1997 and served at Wimbledon since 1971.
• Sheridan’s — The Irish coffee-and-cream liqueur in a two-chambered bottle, conceived at Baileys by Pat Rigney and launched in 1993 or 1994, sold by Diageo in a deal announced in September 2025 and now owned by Casa Redondo, the Portuguese maker of Licor Beirão.

Cider and spirits

Westons, Aspall, Angry Orchard, Moutai, Wuliangye, Kavalan and Amrut.

• Westons — H. Weston & Sons, the family-owned cider and perry maker founded by Henry Weston at The Bounds in Much Marcle, Herefordshire, making cider commercially since 1880, maker of Stowford Press and Old Rosie, with a navy-and-gold logo introduced in 2017.
• Aspall — The Suffolk cyder and vinegar maker at Aspall Hall, where Clement Chevallier began making cyder in 1728, family-run for eight generations, a founding member of the Soil Association in 1946, owned by Molson Coors since January 2018 and rebranded by BrandOpus in 2020.
• Angry Orchard — The hard cider brand of the Boston Beer Company, launched nationally in the United States in April 2012, with an orchard and Innovation Cider House in Walden, New York, opened to visitors in November 2015.
• Moutai — The sauce-aroma baijiu of the state-owned Kweichow Moutai, formed in 1951 from three distilleries in Maotai town, Renhuai, Guizhou; shown at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition and served at the 1972 Nixon banquet.
• Wuliangye — The strong-aroma baijiu of Yibin, Sichuan, made from five grains, given its name in 1909 according to English Wikipedia, and produced by the state-owned Wuliangye group, whose listed arm went public in Shenzhen in 1998.
• Kavalan — The single malt whisky of King Car Group’s distillery at Yuanshan in Yilan County, Taiwan, completed in 2005, first bottled in 2008, and named World’s Best Single Malt at the World Whiskies Awards in 2015 for a Solist cask.
• Amrut — The Bengaluru distillery founded in 1948 by J. N. Radhakrishna Rao Jagdale, whose single malt whisky was launched in Glasgow in 2004, and whose Fusion blends Indian and Scottish peated barley.

Indian and Japanese spirits

Old Monk, McDowell’s, Royal Stag, Officer’s Choice, Blenders Pride, Hibiki and Nikka.

• Old Monk — The vatted Indian dark rum launched in 1954 by Mohan Meakin, a company that traces itself to Edward Dyer’s 1855 brewery at Kasauli, now made at Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, and sold for decades in a squat bottle with little advertising.
• McDowell’s — The spirits name Diageo India dates to 1826 and Angus McDowell’s Madras trading house, bought by Vittal Mallya’s UB Group in 1951, maker of McDowell’s No.1 brandy, whisky and rum, and part of Diageo-controlled United Spirits since 2014.
• Royal Stag — The Indian whisky launched by Seagram in 1995, a blend of grain spirits and imported Scotch malts that passed to Pernod Ricard after the Seagram break-up, with a stag emblem, a maroon label and the line “make it large.”
• Officer’s Choice — The Indian whisky created in 1988 by Kishore Chhabria, named and packaged with naval officer stripes by Rediffusion, now owned by Allied Blenders & Distillers of Mumbai, listed in 2024, and relaunched in its Blue edition in 2026.
• Blenders Pride — The Indian whisky Seagram launched in 1995, a blend of Scotch malts and Indian grain spirits that passed to Pernod Ricard in 2001, known for its black-and-gold pack, the Seagram’s crest and a long-running fashion tour.
• Hibiki — Suntory’s Japanese blended whisky, introduced in 1989 for the company’s 90th anniversary, sold in a 24-faceted bottle the company links to the 24 seasons of the old Japanese calendar, with a label character written by a calligrapher.
• Nikka — The Japanese whisky maker founded in 1934 by Masataka Taketsuru as Dai Nippon Kaju at Yoichi, Hokkaido, renamed Nikka in 1952, joined by Miyagikyo in 1969, wholly owned by Asahi since 2001, and known for the King of Blenders figure.

Spanish brandy, cachaça, Madeira and New Zealand wine

Torres, Osborne, Fundador, Ypióca, Blandy’s, Brancott Estate and Villa Maria.

• Torres — Familia Torres, the family wine and brandy house of Vilafranca del Penedès founded in 1870, maker of Sangre de Toro since 1954 and brandy since 1928, whose 1970 Gran Coronas from Mas La Plana won at the 1979 Gault-Millau Wine Olympiad.
• Osborne — The family-owned drinks group of El Puerto de Santa María, which dates itself to 1772, grew from Thomas Osborne Mann’s partnership in a sherry house, and made the black bull drawn by Manolo Prieto in 1956 for Veterano brandy into a Spanish landmark.
• Fundador — The brandy that Pedro Domecq Loustau began selling in Jerez around 1874, made by the house that became Pedro Domecq, part of Allied Domecq from 1994 and Beam later, and owned since March 2016 by Emperador as Bodegas Fundador.
• Ypióca — The cachaça first distilled in 1846 near Maranguape, Ceará, by the Portuguese immigrant Dario Telles de Menezes, run by his family for five generations, known for bottles wrapped in carnaúba straw, and owned by Diageo since 2012.
• Blandy’s — The Madeira wine house founded in Funchal in 1811 by John Blandy, part of the Madeira Wine Company since 1925, partnered with the Symingtons from 1989 and back under Blandy family control since 2011.
• Brancott Estate — The New Zealand wine brand that grew from Montana Wines, whose Brancott vineyard planted Marlborough’s first vines in 1973, renamed Brancott Estate worldwide in 2010–11, and owned by Vinarchy since April 2025.
• Villa Maria — The New Zealand wine company George Fistonich started in Māngere, Auckland, in 1961, which came through a 1985 receivership, switched to screwcaps in 2001, was bought by Indevin in 2021 and kept its red chevron in a 2025 label refresh.

Bourbon and Canadian whisky

Bulleit, Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Four Roses, Knob Creek, Evan Williams and Crown Royal.

• Bulleit — The Kentucky straight bourbon revived by Tom and Betsy Bulleit in 1987, first sold in 1995, bought by Seagram in 1997 and now owned by Diageo, known for its embossed “Frontier Whiskey” bottle and made in Shelbyville and Lebanon, Kentucky.
• Woodford Reserve — Brown-Forman’s small-batch Kentucky bourbon, launched in 1996 from the restored Labrot & Graham distillery near Versailles, a National Historic Landmark, and the Official Bourbon of the Kentucky Derby since 1999, with an artist-designed Derby bottle each year.
• Buffalo Trace — The Frankfort, Kentucky, distillery once known as O.F.C. and George T. Stagg, owned by the Sazerac Company since 1992, renamed in 1999 after an old buffalo crossing on the Kentucky River and made a National Historic Landmark in 2013.
• Four Roses — The bourbon name Paul Jones Jr. trademarked in 1888, sold by Seagram from 1943 and kept as a straight bourbon only abroad for decades, brought back to American shelves by Kirin from 2002, and bought by E. & J. Gallo in 2026.
• Knob Creek — The Kentucky straight bourbon introduced in 1992 by Jim Beam master distiller Booker Noe as part of the Small Batch Bourbon Collection, sold in a square bottle with a newspaper-style label, and owned today by Suntory Global Spirits.
• Evan Williams — The Kentucky straight bourbon launched by the family-owned Heaven Hill in 1957, named for an 18th-century Welsh-born Louisville distiller, sold as Black Label and White Label, and home since 2013 to the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience in Louisville.
• Crown Royal — The Canadian whisky Samuel Bronfman of Seagram introduced in 1939 for the royal tour of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, sold in a purple bag, distilled at Gimli, Manitoba, and owned by Diageo since the Seagram sale completed in 2001.

Scotch single malts

Glenmorangie, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Talisker, Ardbeg, The Dalmore and Highland Park.

• Glenmorangie — The Highland single malt distilled at Tain since William Matheson converted a farm brewery in 1843, known for Scotland’s tallest stills and the Men of Tain, owned by LVMH’s Moët Hennessy since 2004, with an emblem taken from the Pictish Hilton of Cadboll Stone.
• Laphroaig — The Islay single malt distilled near Port Ellen since Donald and Alexander Johnston founded it in 1815, run for years by Bessie Williamson, holder of a royal warrant from the Prince of Wales since 1994, and owned today by Suntory Global Spirits.
• Lagavulin — The Islay single malt from the south-coast village of Lagavulin, where John Johnston began legal distilling in 1816, which supplied Peter Mackie’s White Horse blend, became one of the Classic Malts in 1988 and is owned today by Diageo.
• Talisker — The single malt from Carbost on the Isle of Skye, founded in 1830 by Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill and named after their Talisker estate, one of the six Classic Malts of 1988, owned by Diageo and repackaged around the sea in 2011.
• Ardbeg — The Islay single malt dated to 1815 and John MacDougall, silenced in 1981 and again in 1996, bought and reopened by the Glenmorangie Company in 1997 and part of LVMH since 2004, with TEN, Uigeadail and Corryvreckan and a fan club founded in 2000.
• The Dalmore — The Highland single malt founded at Alness on the Cromarty Firth in 1839 by Alexander Matheson, marked with the Mackenzie family’s 12-point royal stag from 1867, controlled by Whyte & Mackay since 1960 and owned through it by Emperador of the Philippines since 2014.
• Highland Park — The Kirkwall, Orkney, single malt that dates itself to 1798, owned since 1937 by Highland Distillers and today part of Glasgow’s Edrington, and repackaged in 2017 as “the Orkney Single Malt with Viking Soul.”

Blended Scotch whisky

Dewar’s, J&B, Ballantine’s, Grant’s, Bell’s, Teacher’s and Cutty Sark.

• Dewar’s — The blended Scotch that began with John Dewar’s 1846 wine and spirits shop in Perth, grew under his sons John Alexander and Tommy, launched White Label in 1899, built Aberfeldy distillery and has belonged to Bacardi since 1998.
• J&B — The blended Scotch of Justerini & Brooks, the London wine merchant founded in 1749, created in the early 1930s for the American market as Prohibition ended, built around Knockando malt, and owned by Diageo.
• Ballantine’s — The blended Scotch traced to George Ballantine’s Edinburgh grocery of 1827, granted heraldic arms in 1938, owned by Hiram Walker and Allied, and part of Pernod Ricard’s Chivas Brothers since 2005, with a Finest bottle redrawn in 2013.
• Grant’s — The blended Scotch of the family-owned William Grant & Sons of Dufftown, sold from 1898 as Standfast, renamed Family Reserve in the mid-1980s and Triple Wood in 2018, and bottled since 1957 in a triangular bottle designed by Hans Schleger.
• Bell’s — The blended Scotch from a Perth wine and spirit business dating to 1825, built up by Arthur Bell and his sons, known for the “Afore ye go” slogan and bell-shaped decanters, taken over by Guinness in 1985 and owned today by Diageo.
• Teacher’s — The blended Scotch of William Teacher, who sold whisky in Glasgow from the 1830s and ran a chain of dram shops; Highland Cream was registered in 1884, Ardmore distillery followed in 1898, and the brand is owned today by Suntory Global Spirits.
• Cutty Sark — The blended Scotch launched in 1923 by the London wine merchant Berry Bros. & Rudd, named after the clipper ship by the artist James McBey, sold to Edrington in 2010 and since 2018 owned by the French spirits group La Martiniquaise-Bardinet.

Tequila and Canadian whisky

Sauza, Don Julio, Olmeca, el Jimador, Herradura, Espolòn and Canadian Club.

• Sauza — The tequila house of Tequila, Jalisco, dating from Cenobio Sauza’s 1873 purchase of the La Perseverancia distillery, maker of Hornitos and Tres Generaciones, relabelled in 2010 and 2015 around its rooster crest, and owned today by Suntory Global Spirits.
• Don Julio — The tequila named for Don Julio González, who began distilling in Atotonilco El Alto, Jalisco, in 1942, known for short, square bottles made for the table and the tall 1942 añejo launched in 2002, and wholly owned by Diageo since February 2015.
• Olmeca — The tequila brand Seagram introduced in 1967, owned by Pernod Ricard since 2001, made at the Destilería Colonial de Jalisco in Arandas under master distiller Jesús Hernández, with an Olmec head on the bottle and the Altos line created with two bartenders in 2009.
• el Jimador — The 100% agave tequila Casa Herradura launched in 1994 at Amatitán, Jalisco, named for the jimadores who harvest agave, owned by Brown-Forman since its January 2007 purchase of Herradura’s tequila business, with bottles redrawn in 2013 and 2026.
• Herradura — The tequila of Casa Herradura in Amatitán, Jalisco, registered in 1870 as Hacienda San José del Refugio, named after a horseshoe, credited with the first reposado in 1974, and owned by Brown-Forman since 2007.
• Espolòn — The tequila of Destiladora San Nicolas in the Los Altos highlands of Jalisco, first made in 1998, owned by Campari Group since a deal announced in 2008, with scratchboard labels by Steven Noble inspired by José Guadalupe Posada.
• Canadian Club — The Canadian whisky Hiram Walker began distilling in 1858 on the Detroit River at what became Walkerville, Ontario, first sold as Club Whisky, owned since 2005 by Fortune Brands and its successors, now Suntory Global Spirits.

Rum and bitters

Diplomático, Gosling’s, Myers’s, Lamb’s, Wray & Nephew, El Dorado and Angostura.

• Diplomático — The Venezuelan rum made at a distillery in La Miel, Lara state, founded in 1959 with Seagram’s, renamed Destilerías Unidas in 2002, fronted by the “Don Juancho” icon, and bought by Brown-Forman in a deal completed in January 2023.
• Gosling’s — The Bermuda rum family business begun in 1806 by James Gosling at St. George’s, whose wax-sealed bottles named Black Seal Rum, whose seal emblem was drawn in 1949, and whose Dark ’n Stormy name is a registered trademark.
• Myers’s — The Jamaican dark rum founded by Fred L. Myers in Kingston in 1879, tied to the Planter’s Punch in the 1920s, sold by the family to Seagram in 1954, owned by Diageo from 2000 and by the Sazerac Company since 2018.
• Lamb’s — The navy rum blended in London in 1849 by Alfred Lamb from Caribbean rums, merged into United Rum Merchants in 1946, bottled in Canada by Corby from 1952, owned by Corby from 2005, and sold in 2026 to Phildan and COFEPP.
• Wray & Nephew — J. Wray & Nephew, the Kingston rum company that traces itself to John Wray’s Shakespeare Tavern of 1825, maker of White Overproof rum at New Yarmouth in Clarendon, owner of Appleton Estate, and part of Italy’s Campari Group since 2012.
• El Dorado — The Guyanese rum launched in 1992 by Demerara Distillers Ltd of Georgetown, distilled at Diamond on the East Bank of the Demerara River on wooden heritage stills from the old Port Mourant, Versailles and Enmore estates.
• Angostura — Aromatic bitters first sold in 1824 by Dr Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar), Venezuela, made in Trinidad since the 1870s, known for a yellow cap and an oversized paper label, and also a major Trinidad rum producer.

Irish whiskey

Redbreast, Teeling, Powers, Kilbeggan, Writers’ Tears, Green Spot and Midleton.

• Redbreast — The single pot still Irish whiskey first named in 1912 by the Dublin wine merchant Gilbey’s for Jameson spirit, bought by Irish Distillers in 1986, relaunched in 1991, made at Midleton, County Cork, and repackaged in 2019 with a hand-drawn robin.
• Teeling — The Dublin whiskey company launched in 2012 by Jack Teeling, later joined by his brother Stephen, which opened a distillery on Newmarket Square in the Liberties in 2015 under a phoenix emblem and has been majority-owned by Bacardi since December 2023.
• Powers — The Irish whiskey founded in Dublin in 1791, made by John Power & Son at John’s Lane, folded into Irish Distillers in 1966, distilled at Midleton since the 1970s and owned through Pernod Ricard since 1988, with a diamond P on every label.
• Kilbeggan — The Irish whiskey from the County Westmeath distillery founded in 1757, run by the Locke family from 1843, silent from the 1950s, bought by Cooley in 1987, distilling again from 2007 and owned by Suntory Global Spirits.
• Writers’ Tears — The Irish whiskey range created in 2009 by Walsh Whiskey, the company Bernard and Rosemary Walsh founded in 1999, refreshed by Stranger & Stranger in 2020 and owned since 2021 by Amber Beverage Group.
• Green Spot — The single pot still Irish whiskey of Mitchell & Son, Dublin wine merchants since 1887, named after a daub of green paint on its casks, made at Midleton by Irish Distillers since a 1977 agreement, and marked by a centenary edition in 2025.
• Midleton — Midleton Very Rare, the Irish whiskey launched by Irish Distillers in 1984 at the New Midleton Distillery in County Cork, released as a new vintage each year and signed by the master distiller: Barry Crockett, Brian Nation and Kevin O’Gorman.

Scotch single malts II

The Balvenie, Glenfarclas, Aberlour, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Oban and Springbank.

• The Balvenie — The Speyside single malt from Dufftown, owned by William Grant & Sons, first distilled on 1 May 1893, known for its own malting floor, the DoubleWood created by malt master David Stewart, and the Stories range packaged by Here Design.
• Glenfarclas — The Speyside single malt from Ballindalloch, licensed in 1836 and bought by John Grant on 8 June 1865, still owned and run by his descendants through J. & G. Grant, known for sherry-cask malts, direct-fired stills and The Family Casks.
• Aberlour — The Speyside single malt founded by James Fleming in 1879 where the Lour Burn meets the Spey, owned by Pernod Ricard since 1975 and run by Chivas Brothers, with the cask-strength A’bunadh and the motto “Let the deed show.”
• Bowmore — The Islay single malt whose name is first recorded in 1779, owned by the Morrison family from 1963 and by Suntory since 1994, now part of Suntory Global Spirits, with floor maltings, the No.1 Vaults and a 2024 redesign in legacy black.
• Bruichladdich — The Islay distillery built by the Harvey brothers in 1881, silent in the late 1990s, reopened in 2001 by Mark Reynier’s group with Jim McEwan, maker of Port Charlotte, Octomore and The Botanist gin, owned by Rémy Cointreau since 2012.
• Oban — The West Highland single malt distilled since 1794, when brothers John and Hugh Stevenson began work on the bay where the town of Oban later grew; one of the Classic Malts since the late 1980s, owned today by Diageo.
• Springbank — The Campbeltown single malt distillery licensed in 1828 and run by the Mitchell family line since 1837 through J&A Mitchell, maker of Springbank, Longrow and Hazelburn, which malts its own barley on a floor maltings and bottles on site.

Scotch whisky III

Monkey Shoulder, Whyte & Mackay, Auchentoshan, Old Pulteney, Glengoyne, Bunnahabhain and Caol Ila.

• Monkey Shoulder — The blended malt Scotch from William Grant & Sons, released in the UK and France in 2005, named after a maltmen’s strain injury, marked by three monkeys on the bottle’s shoulder and redesigned in 2024 with lighter glass.
• Whyte & Mackay — The Glasgow blended Scotch founded as a partnership of James Whyte and Charles Mackay in 1882, tracing roots to 1844, known for its triple maturation and two lions on the label, and owned by the Philippine group Emperador since 2014.
• Auchentoshan — The Lowland single malt distilled three times at Dalmuir, on the outskirts of Clydebank near Glasgow, since 1823; owned by Suntory since 1994 and marketed today by Suntory Global Spirits as a city whisky.
• Old Pulteney — The Highland single malt of the Pulteney distillery in Wick, Caithness, founded in 1826 by James Henderson, owned since 1995 by Inver House Distillers (part of ThaiBev since 2006) and sold as “The Maritime Malt” under a herring drifter emblem.
• Glengoyne — The single malt distilled at Dumgoyne, north of Glasgow, since 1833, first as Burnfoot, owned by Lang Brothers from 1876 and by the family-owned Ian Macleod Distillers since 2003, known for barley dried with warm air rather than peat smoke and a 2020 redesign.
• Bunnahabhain — The Islay single malt from the north-east coast near Port Askaig, founded in 1881 by William Robertson and the Greenlees brothers, owned by Burn Stewart from 2003 and now by CVH Spirits, known for unpeated whisky, a helmsman on the label and the song “Westering Home.”
• Caol Ila — The Islay single malt distillery near Port Askaig founded in 1846 by Hector Henderson, rebuilt with a glass-walled still house in 1974, owned by Diageo and long a smoky ingredient of Johnnie Walker blends.

Gin and vodka

The Botanist, Bulldog, Malfy, Gin Mare, Brockmans, Cîroc and SKYY.

• The Botanist — The Islay dry gin of Bruichladdich Distillery, first distilled in 2010 and launched in 2011, made with 22 hand-foraged island botanicals in a Lomond still nicknamed Ugly Betty, and owned by Rémy Cointreau since 2012.
• Bulldog — The London dry gin launched in the United States in 2007 by the former investment banker Anshuman Vohra, sold in a dark tinted bottle with a spiked dog collar around the neck, distributed by Campari from 2014 and bought by Gruppo Campari in 2017.
• Malfy — The Italian gin distilled by the Vergnano family at Torino Distillati in Moncalieri, near Turin, launched by Elwyn Gladstone’s Biggar & Leith in 2016, bought by Pernod Ricard in 2019 and given a silver-and-turquoise bottle in 2025.
• Gin Mare — The Mediterranean gin made with Arbequina olive, basil, thyme and rosemary by the Giró family’s MG Destilerías in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, launched in 2010 with Vantguard and bought by Brown-Forman in 2022.
• Brockmans — The English gin founded by Neil Everitt and Bob Fowkes, launched to bars in England in 2008–2009, known for blueberry and blackberry botanicals and a “Properly Improper” voice, with Orange Kiss and Agave Cut added in 2023.
• Cîroc — The French vodka distilled from grapes, created in 2003 by master distiller Jean-Sébastien Robicquet for Diageo at Maison Villevert near Cognac, marketed with Sean Combs from 2007 until 2023, and run in North America by a joint venture since 2025.
• SKYY — Founded in San Francisco in 1992 by the inventor Maurice Kanbar, sold in a cobalt-blue bottle, controlled by Campari from 2002 and wholly owned from 2006, and relaunched with a new bottle and logo in 2021.

Aperitifs and vermouth

Lillet, Suze, Dubonnet, Noilly Prat, Carpano, Cocchi and Licor Beirão.

• Lillet — The wine-based aperitif founded in 1872 at Podensac, near Bordeaux, by the brothers Paul and Raymond Lillet, sold for decades as Kina Lillet, pictured in Robert Wolff’s 1937 poster La Vendangeuse, and owned by Pernod Ricard since 2008.
• Suze — The French gentian-root aperitif created by Fernand Moureaux and Henri Porte, launched around the Paris Exposition of 1889, sold in a tall bottle the company says Porte designed in 1896, pasted into a 1912 Picasso collage, and owned by Pernod since 1965.
• Dubonnet — The sweet quinquina aperitif wine first sold in Paris in 1846 by Joseph Dubonnet, advertised by Chéret and by A. M. Cassandre’s 1932 “Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet” posters, owned by Pernod Ricard since 1976, with US rights held by Heaven Hill since 1993.
• Noilly Prat — The French dry vermouth whose company traces its story to Joseph Noilly’s Lyon wine business in 1813, founded as Noilly Prat & Cie in 1855, aged outdoors in Marseillan, and owned by Bacardi through Martini & Rossi.
• Carpano — The Turin vermouth name linked to Antonio Benedetto Carpano and 1786, home of Punt e Mes (1870) and Antica Formula, sold to Silvio Turati in 1939, owned by Fratelli Branca Distillerie of Milan since 2001, with a Punt e Mes logo by Armando Testa.
• Cocchi — Giulio Cocchi’s Asti house of 1891, maker of Cocchi Americano, Barolo Chinato, Storico Vermouth di Torino and sparkling wines, run by the Bava family since 1978, with a futurist rooster on the Americano label.
• Licor Beirão — The Portuguese liqueur from Lousã, named in 1929, bought in 1940 by José Carranca Redondo, known for its roadside billboards and yellow-and-red label, and made by the family company now called Casa Redondo, which bought Safari and Sheridan’s from Diageo.

Vodka, gin and liqueurs

Svedka, Wyborowa, Beluga, Haku, Fireball, Passoã and Whitley Neill.

• Svedka — The vodka launched in 1998 by Guillaume Cuvelier with a Swedish name and Swedish spirit, sold to Constellation Brands in 2007 and to Sazerac in 2024–25, now made in the United States and still fronted by a robot.
• Wyborowa — The Polish rye vodka distilled in Poznań, whose state-monopoly recipe dates from 1926 and trademark from 1927–32, which passed to Pernod Ricard in 1999–2001 as Wyborowa S.A., and whose Exquisite line came in a Frank Gehry bottle in 2004.
• Beluga — First made in 2002 at the Mariinsk distillery in Siberia, marked by a metal sturgeon applied by hand to every bottle, and since October 2022 split in two: Novabev Group keeps the brand in Russia, while Noblewood Group owns it everywhere else and makes it in Montenegro.
• Haku — The House of Suntory’s Japanese craft vodka, launched in the United States in 2018, made from Japanese white rice distilled in Kagoshima and filtered through bamboo charcoal in Osaka, with a name that means “white” and a bottle embossed with flowing lines.
• Fireball — The cinnamon-flavoured Canadian whisky liqueur that began at Seagram in the mid-1980s as Dr. McGillicuddy’s Fireball, was sold to Sazerac in 1989, became Fireball Cinnamon Whisky in 2007 and grew through bar sampling and social media.
• Passoã — The passion-fruit liqueur in a black bottle, launched in Europe in 1986 under Rémy Cointreau and made near Angers, moved into a joint venture with Lucas Bols in 2016, wholly owned by Bols from 2020 and redesigned for its 40th anniversary in 2026.
• Whitley Neill — The London Dry gin launched in 2005 by Johnny Neill, a descendant of the Greenall distilling family, made with baobab and Cape gooseberry, bought by Halewood in 2009, rebottled in matt black in 2013 and distilled at the City of London Distillery since 2021.

Cognac, calvados and grappa

Camus, Hine, Delamain, Otard, Père Magloire, Christian Drouin and Nonino.

• Camus — The Cognac house founded in 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Camus as La Grande Marque, led by the family through five generations, an early mover in duty-free sales, with vineyards in the Borderies and a long partnership with Kweichow Moutai.
• Hine — The Jarnac Cognac house that took the name Thomas Hine & Co. in 1817, after a young Englishman from Beaminster in Dorset joined the Delamain trade, known for vintage Grande Champagne cognacs, a 1962 Royal Warrant and, since 2013, owned by France’s EDV SAS.
• Delamain — The Jarnac cognac house that dates itself to 1824, descended from James Delamain, who settled in Jarnac in 1759; it works only Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie, is known for Pale & Dry XO and has had Société Jacques Bollinger as majority shareholder since 2017.
• Otard — The cognac house founded in 1795 by Jean-Baptiste Antoine Otard, who with the Dupuy brothers bought the royal Château de Cognac, birthplace of Francis I, for their cellars; sold as Baron Otard and owned through Martini & Rossi by Bacardi.
• Père Magloire — The calvados brand dated by its owner to 1821 and named after a Norman innkeeper, once part of Veuve Clicquot, bought by the Normandy group Spirit France in 2007 and run today from Reux, with a visitor centre in its old Pont-l’Évêque distillery.
• Christian Drouin — The family calvados house begun in 1960 when Christian Drouin senior took over a cider-apple farm near Honfleur, which began selling in 1979, moved to Coudray-Rabut near Pont-l’Évêque in 1991–92 and is run today by his grandson Guillaume Drouin.
• Nonino — The family grappa distillery founded in 1897 by Orazio Nonino at Ronchi di Percoto in Friuli, where Benito and Giannola Nonino made a single-varietal Picolit grappa in 1973 and founded the Premio Nonino in 1975.

Caribbean and Latin American rum

Planteray, Don Q, Pampero, Santa Teresa, Rhum Clément, Rhum J.M and Damoiseau.

• Planteray — The rum brand of the independent French house Maison Ferrand, founded by Alexandre Gabriel, sold as Plantation from the late 1990s, renamed Planteray in January 2024, and made at the West Indies Rum Distillery in Barbados, bought in 2017.
• Don Q — The Puerto Rican rum of Destilería Serrallés in Ponce, where the Serrallés family made its first casks of rum at Hacienda Mercedita in 1865, launched in the 1930s and named after Cervantes’s Don Quixote, still family-owned after six generations.
• Pampero — The Venezuelan rum founded in 1938 by Alejandro Hernández and Luis Toro, known at home as “Caballito Frenao” for its horseman logo, with an Aniversario sold in a leather pouch, and owned since 2024 by Italy’s Gruppo Montenegro.
• Santa Teresa — The Venezuelan rum made at Hacienda Santa Teresa in El Consejo, Aragua, an estate dating from 1796, run by the Vollmer family for five generations, registered as a rum brand in 1909, known for its 1796 solera rum and distributed abroad by Bacardi since 2017.
• Rhum Clément — The Martinique rhum agricole that dates its story to 1887, when Homère Clément bought the Acajou estate in Le François, renamed Rhum Clément in 1940, owned by the Hayot family since 1986 and part of Groupe Bernard Hayot’s spirits arm Spiribam.
• Rhum J.M — The Martinique rhum agricole of the Habitation Bellevue at Macouba, named for the initials of Jean-Marie Martin, who founded the distillery in 1845, run by the Crassous de Médeuil family for most of the 20th century and owned since 2002 by Groupe Bernard Hayot.
• Damoiseau — The rhum agricole of Guadeloupe made on the Bellevue estate at Le Moule, Grande-Terre, which Roger Damoiseau bought in 1942 and which his grandson Hervé Damoiseau now runs, with a stone windmill still standing on the estate.

Mezcal, baijiu and grappa

Del Maguey, Montelobos, 400 Conejos, Luzhou Laojiao, Fenjiu, Yanghe and Nardini.

• Del Maguey — The Single Village Mezcal brand founded in 1995 by the California artist Ron Cooper, named bottle by bottle after Oaxacan villages, labelled with artwork by the sculptor Ken Price, and majority-owned by Pernod Ricard since 2017.
• Montelobos — The mezcal created by the agave scientist Iván Saldaña, made in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, launched in the United States in late 2012 with packaging by WeHolden, and controlled by Campari Group since 2019.
• 400 Conejos — The espadín mezcal from Oaxaca owned by Casa Cuervo, part of the Beckmann family’s Becle, sold in the US by Proximo Spirits, and named after the Centzon Tōtōchtin, the 400 rabbit gods of pulque in Aztec belief.
• Luzhou Laojiao — The state-controlled strong-aroma baijiu maker of Luzhou, Sichuan, whose fermentation cellars date to 1573, protected as a national cultural relic in 1996, and whose Guojiao 1573 brand debuted in 2001.
• Fenjiu — The qingxiang (light-aroma) baijiu of Xinghuacun in Fenyang, Shanxi, made by a distillery founded in 1949, named one of China’s four famous spirits in 1952, listed in Shanghai in 1994 and part-owned by China Resources since 2018.
• Yanghe — The strong-aroma baijiu from Yanghe town in Suqian, Jiangsu, made by a distillery formed in 1949, named one of China’s eight famous spirits in 1979, and remade in 2003 by the Blue Classic range of Ocean Blue, Sky Blue and Dream Blue.
• Nardini — The grappa house Bortolo Nardini set up in 1779 in an inn at the end of the wooden bridge in Bassano del Grappa, still run by the family, with a 2004 glass “Bolle” building by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas and a Rabarbaro and Mezzoemezzo range.

Whisky, gin, grappa, calvados and rosé

Tomatin, Jura, Edinburgh Gin, Roku, Poli, Boulard and Minuty.

• Tomatin — The Highland single malt distilled in the village of Tomatin, south of Inverness, since 1897, rescued by Japanese companies in the mid-1980s, owned by Takara Shuzo, and repackaged in 2009, 2015 and 2026.
• Jura — The island single malt from Craighouse on the Isle of Jura, founded in 1810, rebuilt in 1963, owned by Whyte & Mackay and, since 2014, the Philippine drinks group Emperador, with ranges redrawn in 2018 and 2025.
• Edinburgh Gin — Launched in 2010 by Alex and Jane Nicol’s Spencerfield Spirit Company, bought by Ian Macleod Distillers in 2016, repacked in 2023 with a new logo and embossed bottle, and distilled since December 2024 at The Arches on East Market Street.
• Roku — The Japanese gin Suntory launched in Japan on 4 July 2017, named after the Japanese word for six, made in Osaka with six Japanese botanicals and sold in a hexagonal bottle with embossed botanicals and a washi-paper label.
• Poli — The family grappa distillery founded in 1898 at Schiavon near Bassano del Grappa by Giobatta Poli, still run by the Poli family, known for its steam still, Sarpa grappa and the Poli Grappa Museum opened in Bassano in 1993.
• Boulard — The Calvados Pays d’Auge house founded in 1825 by Pierre-Auguste Boulard, distilling at Coquainvilliers in Normandy, now part of Spirit France, with a white square emblem used since the 1970s and new packaging for its 200th year.
• Minuty — The Provence wine estate at Gassin on the Saint-Tropez peninsula, bought by Gabriel Farnet in 1936, a Côtes de Provence cru classé since 1955, run by the Matton family, majority-owned by Moët Hennessy since 2023, and known for its corset-flute M bottle and 281.

Tequila II and cream liqueur

Casa Noble, Clase Azul, 1800, Hornitos, Cazadores, Corralejo and RumChata.

• Casa Noble — The organic, triple-distilled tequila made at La Cofradía outside Tequila, Jalisco, co-founded by David Ravandi, Carlos Hernandez and José “Pepe” Hermosillo, backed by Carlos Santana, and owned since September 2014 by Constellation Brands.
• Clase Azul — The tequila and mezcal house Arturo Lomelí founded in Guadalajara in 1997, known for white and cobalt ceramic decanters shaped and painted by hand by Mexican artisans, now styled Clase Azul México.
• 1800 Tequila — The Beckmann family’s aged tequila from Jalisco, sister brand to Jose Cuervo, named for the year the brand says tequila was first aged in oak, sold in a trapezoidal bottle modelled on Mexican pyramids, with artist bottles since 2008.
• Hornitos — The tequila the brand says Francisco Javier Sauza launched on Mexican Independence Day in 1950, named for the small ovens used to cook agave, made by the Sauza house of Tequila, Jalisco, and owned since 2014 by Suntory’s spirits arm.
• Cazadores — The 100% blue Weber agave tequila from the highland town of Arandas, Jalisco, whose own history begins with a 1922 family recipe and a distillery opened in 1973, sold with a stag on the label and today part of Bacardi’s tequila portfolio.
• Corralejo — The tequila distilled at the historic Hacienda de Corralejo in Pénjamo, Guanajuato, revived in the 1990s by Leonardo Rodríguez Moreno and known for tall coloured bottles: clear for Blanco, blue for Reposado and red for Añejo.
• RumChata — The rum-and-horchata cream liqueur created by former Jim Beam executive Tom Maas, launched in 2009 by Agave Loco, made in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, by Midwest Custom Bottling, and owned since 2021 by E. & J. Gallo Winery.

Bourbon II

Elijah Craig, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, Angel’s Envy, Old Forester, Michter’s and Basil Hayden.

• Elijah Craig — The Kentucky straight bourbon introduced by the family-owned Heaven Hill of Bardstown in 1986, named after an 18th-century Baptist preacher, and given a taller bottle embossed with 1789 in a 2016 redesign.
• Eagle Rare — The Kentucky straight bourbon introduced by Seagram in 1975, bought by the Sazerac Company of New Orleans in 1989 and made at the Frankfort distillery renamed Buffalo Trace in 1999, now a 10-year-old with older editions.
• Blanton’s — The single-barrel bourbon Elmer T. Lee introduced in 1984 and named for Colonel Albert B. Blanton, aged in Warehouse H at Buffalo Trace in Frankfort, Kentucky, owned by Takara’s Age International, with eight racehorse stoppers that spell its name.
• Angel’s Envy — The Louisville bourbon founded in 2010 by master distiller Lincoln Henderson and his family, finished in port wine barrels, bought by Bacardi in 2015, and made since 2016 at a distillery on East Main Street on Whiskey Row.
• Old Forester — The Louisville bourbon George Garvin Brown created in 1870 and sold in sealed glass bottles, the founding brand of Brown-Forman, and since 2018 distilled on Main Street’s Whiskey Row in the building it used from 1882 to 1919.
• Michter’s — A whiskey name coined by Lou Forman in Pennsylvania in the 1950s, abandoned after a 1989 bankruptcy, revived in the 1990s by Joseph J. Magliocco and Dick Newman, and distilled in Louisville since 2015 at Shively and Fort Nelson.
• Basil Hayden — The high-rye Kentucky bourbon Booker Noe created in 1992 for Jim Beam’s Small Batch collection, named after the Maryland Catholic pioneer Basil Hayden Sr., redesigned in 2021 around its belted bottle and now owned by Suntory Global Spirits.

Rye, Japanese and Irish whiskey

WhistlePig, Rittenhouse, Hakushu, Mars Shinshu, Slane, Roe & Co and The Sexton.

• WhistlePig — The rye whiskey brand Raj Bhakta started on a former dairy farm in Shoreham, Vermont, built with master distiller Dave Pickerell on aged Canadian rye, sold under a top-hatted pig logo and backed since 2019 by BDT Capital Partners.
• Rittenhouse — The straight rye named after Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, once a brand of the Philadelphia distiller Publicker and now made by the family-owned Heaven Hill of Bardstown, Kentucky, as a 100-proof Bottled-in-Bond rye.
• Hakushu — The single malt from Suntory’s second malt distillery, founded in 1973 in the forest at the foot of Mount Kaikoma in Yamanashi, bottled as a 12-year-old from 1994 and known as the “forest distillery.”
• Mars Shinshu — Hombo Shuzo’s whisky distillery at Miyada, Nagano, opened in 1985 below Kiso-Komagatake, silent from 1992, distilling again from 2011 and renamed Mars Komagatake Distillery in March 2024.
• Slane — The Irish whiskey made with the Conyngham family on the Slane Castle estate in County Meath, bought by Brown-Forman in 2015, distilled in converted 18th-century stables opened in 2017, and known for its triple-casked blend.
• Roe & Co — The Irish whiskey Diageo launched in 2017 in honour of George Roe, whose Thomas Street distillery closed in 1926, and distilled since 2019 in the former Guinness power station in Dublin’s Liberties, opposite St. James’s Gate.
• The Sexton — The Irish single malt that Proximo Spirits launched in 2017, created by master blender Alex Thomas, distilled at Bushmills in County Antrim, matured in oloroso sherry casks and sold in an opaque black hexagonal bottle with a skull and top hat.

Gin, vodka and American brandy

Four Pillars, KI NO BI, Deep Eddy, New Amsterdam, Chopin, Christian Brothers and Paul Masson.

• Four Pillars — The Healesville gin distillery in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, launched in late 2013 by Cameron Mackenzie, Stuart Gregor and Matt Jones with a German copper still called Wilma, half-owned by Lion from 2019 and wholly from 2023.
• KI NO BI — The Kyoto Dry Gin of The Kyoto Distillery, founded in 2014 by David Croll, Noriko Kakuda Croll and Marcin Miller, launched in October 2016 with a rice-spirit base and a Kira Karacho karakami pattern, with a Pernod Ricard stake agreed in 2020.
• Deep Eddy — The Texas vodka founded in Austin in 2010 by Clayton Christopher and Chad Auler, named after the city’s historic Deep Eddy Pool, owned by Heaven Hill Brands since 2015 and distilled at Buda in Hays County.
• New Amsterdam — The vodka and gin of E. & J. Gallo’s New Amsterdam Spirits Company in Modesto, California, named after the Dutch settlement that became New York, with a vodka in the market since 2011 and a cityscape logo refreshed in 2025.
• Chopin — The single-ingredient Polish vodka made in potato, rye and wheat versions by Podlaska Wytwórnia Wódek Polmos of Siedlce, launched in Poland in 1993, sold in the United States from 1997 and named after the composer Frédéric Chopin.
• Christian Brothers — The American grape brandy begun by the De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic teaching order that made wine in California from 1882 and in the Napa Valley from the 1930s, sold to Heublein in 1989 and now produced by Heaven Hill.
• Paul Masson — The brand of a Burgundy-born winemaker in California’s Santa Clara Valley, remembered for Orson Welles’s “We will sell no wine before its time”, whose brandy Sazerac agreed to buy in 2020 while Gallo lists the table wines.

Italian grappa, amari and liqueurs

Nonino, Nardini, Luxardo, Pallini, Braulio, Amaro Lucano and Meletti.

• Luxardo — The family liqueur house founded by Girolamo Luxardo in Zara (now Zadar) in 1821, rebuilt in Torreglia near Padua in 1947, known for Maraschino Originale in a straw-wrapped green bottle and for Marasca cherries.
• Pallini — The family liqueur company founded by Nicola Pallini in Antrodoco in 1875, moved to Rome in 1922, which calls itself the capital’s only active distillery and makes Pallini Limoncello from Amalfi Coast Sfusato lemons.
• Braulio — The alpine amaro of Bormio in Valtellina, created by the Peloni family of pharmacists in 1875, named after Monte Braulio, aged in Slavonian oak beneath the old town, and part of Campari Group since its 2014 purchase of Averna.
• Amaro Lucano — The amaro created in 1894 by Pasquale Vena in his biscuit bakery at Pisticci, Basilicata, still owned by the Vena family as Lucano 1894, with the Pacchiana on its label, the motto “Lavoro e Onestà” and the slogan “Cosa vuoi di più dalla vita? Un Lucano!”
• Meletti — The family-owned liqueur maker founded by Silvio Meletti in Ascoli Piceno on 20 September 1870, known for Anisetta Meletti, Amaro Meletti, a century of commissioned posters and the Liberty-style Caffè Meletti on Piazza del Popolo.

Liqueurs and flavoured vodka

Bols, De Kuyper, Hpnotiq, Tuaca, Goldschläger, Pinnacle and Three Olives.

• Bols — The Amsterdam liqueur and genever house of Lucas Bols, which dates itself to 1575, sells Blue Curaçao and a range of liqueurs in a teardrop bottle, and was taken over by the Schiedam distiller Nolet in 2024 and delisted that year.
• De Kuyper — The family-owned Schiedam liqueur maker founded in 1695 by Petrus de Kuyper as a cooperage, granted the title Royal in 1995, and owner of Peachtree, Mandarine Napoléon, Rutte and Cherry Heering.
• Hpnotiq — The sky-blue liqueur of vodka, cognac and tropical fruit juices created in New York in 2001 by Raphael Yakoby, promoted through clubs and hip-hop, and owned since January 2003 by Heaven Hill of Bardstown, Kentucky, which says it is crafted in France.
• Tuaca — The vanilla and citrus Italian brandy liqueur named for the Tuoni and Canepa families of Livorno, taken to America by returning servicemen and a San Francisco importer, owned by Brown-Forman from 2002 and by the Sazerac Company since 2016.
• Goldschläger — The cinnamon schnapps with flakes of gold leaf, introduced in 1993 with Swiss roots, made in Italy under Diageo, sold to the New Orleans-based Sazerac Company in a 19-brand deal in November 2018, and named after the craft of gold-beating.
• Pinnacle Vodka — The vodka launched by White Rock Distilleries of Lewiston, Maine, in the early 2000s, marketed as French wheat vodka, famous for Whipped and dozens of flavours, sold to Beam in 2012 and owned today by Suntory Global Spirits.
• Three Olives — The flavoured vodka brand launched at the end of the 1990s, distilled in England from English wheat, sold by White Rock Distilleries to Proximo Spirits in 2007, and rebuilt in 2023 as a US-made vodka with a hand-drawn logo by Superfantastico.

Beer, whisky, vodka and aperitivo

Founders, Coors Light, Akashi, Proper No. Twelve, UV, Cappelletti and Select.

• Founders Brewing — The Grand Rapids, Michigan brewery set up in 1997 by Mike Stevens and Dave Engbers as Canal Street Brewing Co., named after its own first label, known for KBS and All Day IPA, and majority-owned by Spain’s Mahou San Miguel since 2019.
• Coors Light — The American light lager launched by the Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colorado, in 1978 after a short-lived 1941 namesake, known as the Silver Bullet for its silver can and for cold-activated mountains on its labels since 2007; today a Molson Coors brand.
• Akashi — The Japanese whisky label of Eigashima Shuzo, a sake maker founded in Akashi, Hyōgo, in 1888, which released White Oak whisky in 1919, built its present distillery in 1984 and launched its first Akashi single malt in 2007.
• Proper No. Twelve — The Irish whiskey launched in September 2018 by Conor McGregor’s Eire Born company with Proximo Spirits, named after Dublin 12, blended and bottled at Bushmills, and majority-owned by Proximo since 2021.
• UV Vodka — The flavoured vodka family of Phillips Distilling, the Minnesota company founded in 1912 as Ed Phillips & Sons, produced and bottled in Princeton, Minnesota, and known for brightly coloured flavours from UV Blue to UV Sriracha.
• Cappelletti — The Antica Erboristeria dott. Cappelletti, a family firm begun in Trento by the herbalist Giuseppe Cappelletti (dated 1906 or 1909), now run by the fourth generation in Aldeno and known for its wine-based Aperitivo, Sfumato and Elisir Novasalus.
• Select Aperitivo — The ruby-red bitter created in Venice in 1920 by the Pilla brothers’ Fratelli Pilla & C., later produced near Bologna and now made by Gruppo Montenegro, with an Art Deco bottle revived in 2018 and a Venetian home, Ca’ Select, opened in 2023.

Mezcal, rum and Canadian whisky

Del Maguey, Montelobos, Ilegal, Don Q, Ron Abuelo, Cruzan and Forty Creek.

• Ilegal Mezcal — The brand John Rexer built from mezcal for his bar in Antigua, Guatemala, founded in 2006, made from Espadín agave by the Hernández family at Mal de Amor in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, and fully owned by Bacardi since 2023.
• Ron Abuelo — The aged Panamanian rum of Varela Hermanos, which traces its roots to the San Isidro sugar mill José Varela Blanco set up in Pesé, Herrera, in 1908. The company says it began distilling in 1936 and bottled its first Ron Abuelo in 1960.
• Cruzan — The rum of Estate Diamond on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, a site the company dates to 1760, first bottled under the Cruzan name in 1934, run for decades by the Nelthropp family and owned today by Suntory Global Spirits.
• Forty Creek — The Canadian whisky that John K. Hall began making at Kittling Ridge in Grimsby, Ontario, in 1992, launched with Barrel Select, sold to Gruppo Campari in 2014 and repackaged in clear bottles in 2022.

Canadian whisky, schnapps and rum liqueur

Black Velvet, Seagram’s 7 Crown, Alberta Premium, Lot No. 40, Rumple Minze, Dr. McGillicuddy’s and Bumbu.

• Black Velvet — The Canadian whisky blend created by W. & A. Gilbey in 1951, made since 1973 at a purpose-built distillery in Lethbridge, Alberta, and owned in turn by Grand Metropolitan, Constellation Brands and, since 2019, Heaven Hill.
• Seagram’s 7 Crown — The American blended whiskey Seagram introduced after Prohibition, the base of the 7 & 7 highball, kept by Diageo when it sold the Canadian Seagram’s whiskies to Sazerac in 2018, and relaunched around National Dive Bar Day.
• Alberta Premium — The 100% rye Canadian whisky introduced in 1958 by Alberta Distillers of Calgary, the distillery Frank McMahon and Max Bell founded in 1946, five times Jim Murray’s Canadian Whisky of the Year and now part of Suntory Global Spirits.
• Lot No. 40 — The 100% rye Canadian whisky distilled one batch at a time in a copper pot still at the Hiram Walker distillery in Windsor, Ontario, released in 2012 by Corby Spirit and Wine, whose majority owner is Pernod Ricard.
• Rumple Minze — The 100-proof peppermint schnapps made at the Scharlachberg distillery in Wiesbaden, imported into the US from 1981, trademarked by IDV North America in the 1990s and owned by Diageo, with a double-headed eagle and polar-bear advertising.
• Dr. McGillicuddy’s — The flavoured schnapps line created in Canada by Seagram in the mid-1980s, sold to Sazerac in 1989, fronted by the fictional moustached “Shot Doctor” of the Shady Eye Saloon, and the original home of Fireball.
• Bumbu — The spiced Barbados rum of Sovereign Brands, the New York company founded by brothers Brett and Brian Berish, sold as “rum with natural flavors” alongside an XO and a Crème liqueur, with Pernod Ricard a shareholder since 2021.

American craft spirits and agave

Tequila Ocho, Fortaleza, High West, Westland, Balcones, St. George Spirits and Empress 1908.

• Tequila Ocho — The single-estate tequila founded in 2008 by Carlos Camarena and Tomas Estes, labelled by vintage year and field, made in Arandas in the Jalisco Highlands, and owned by Heaven Hill through Samson & Surrey since February 2022.
• Fortaleza — The family-run tequila of Guillermo Erickson Sauza, made at La Fortaleza, a small distillery in the town of Tequila restored from 1999, first sold in Mexico as Los Abuelos, and bottled in hand-blown glass with an agave-shaped stopper.
• High West — The whiskey distillery founded in Park City, Utah, by David and Jane Perkins, the state’s first licensed distillery since Prohibition, known for Rendezvous Rye and Double Rye!, distilling at Blue Sky Ranch in Wanship and owned by Constellation Brands since 2016.
• Westland — The Seattle distillery founded in 2010 by Emerson Lamb and Matt Hofmann, an early champion of American single malt whiskey made from Washington barley, known for its Garry oak Garryana releases, and owned by Rémy Cointreau since the deal announced in December 2016.
• Balcones — The Waco, Texas whisky maker founded in 2008 by Chip Tate in a former welding shop under a bridge, known for Baby Blue corn whisky and Texas “1” single malt, moved downtown in 2016 and acquired by Diageo in November 2022.
• St. George Spirits — The Alameda, California distillery founded in 1982 by Jörg Rupf as an eau-de-vie maker, run since 2010 by Lance Winters and Dave Smith from a former Navy hangar, where Hangar One vodka, Absinthe Verte and Terroir gin were made.
• Empress 1908 — The indigo gin made with butterfly pea blossom by Victoria Distillers in Sidney, British Columbia, launched in 2017 and inspired by the tea of the Fairmont Empress hotel, and owned since June 2022 by Milestone Brands of Austin, Texas.

Nordic aquavit and Polish vodka

Linie, Aalborg, O.P. Anderson, Brennivín, Koskenkorva, Sobieski and Soplica.

• Linie — The Norwegian aquavit launched by Jørgen B. Lysholm in Trondheim in 1821, matured in sherry casks on a ship that crosses the equator twice, made by Arcus at Gjelleråsen near Oslo and, since September 2021, owned by Helsinki-based Anora Group.
• Aalborg — The Danish akvavit rooted in Isidor Henius’s Aalborg distillery of the 1840s, built up by De Danske Spritfabrikker from 1881, sold by Pernod Ricard to Arcus in 2013, made in Norway since 2015 and owned today by Anora Group.
• O.P. Anderson — The Swedish aquavit launched at the 1891 Gothenburg Exhibition as “Gammal Fin 1ma Aquavit,” taken over by the state Vin & Spritcentralen in 1917, sold to Altia in 2010, owned by Anora since 2021 and made at the O.P. Anderson Distillery in Matfors, Sundsvall.
• Brennivín — The Icelandic caraway spirit first made by the state alcohol monopoly in 1935, when prohibition was partly lifted, given a stark black label meant to limit demand and nicknamed the Black Death, made today by Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson of Reykjavík.
• Koskenkorva — The Finnish clear spirit launched in 1953 by the state alcohol company, distilled from barley at Koskenkorva in Ilmajoki, bottled at Rajamäki, and owned since 2021 by Anora Group, formed when Altia merged with Norway’s Arcus.
• Sobieski — The Polish rye vodka named after King Jan III Sobieski, launched in 1998 by the French group Belvédère, now Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits, and made in Poland by United Beverages since MBWS sold its Polish operations in 2019 and 2020.
• Soplica — The Polish vodka and flavoured range traced to Bolesław Kasprowicz’s Gniezno factory of 1888 and a first bottle of 1891, owned by CEDC, then Russian Standard from 2013 and Maspex since 2022, and made, CEDC says, at its Oborniki plant.

German brandy, bitters and liqueurs, and Polish liqueurs

Asbach, Berentzen, Underberg, Killepitsch, Mampe, Żołądkowa Gorzka and Krupnik.

• Asbach — The brandy house Hugo Asbach founded in Rüdesheim am Rhein in 1892, which registered “Weinbrand” as a trademark in 1907, launched Asbach Uralt, and has belonged wholly to the Underberg group since 2002, with its brandy still distilled in Rüdesheim.
• Berentzen — The spirits group from Haselünne in Emsland that traces its distillery to 1758, launched Berentzen Apfelkorn in 1976, merged with Pabst & Richarz in 1988, listed in 1994, makes its spirits in Minden, and agreed a takeover offer from Sazerac in September 2026.
• Underberg — The herbal bitter Hubert Underberg launched in Rheinberg in 1846, sold since 1949 in a paper-wrapped 20 ml portion bottle, still family-owned by the Semper idem Underberg group, and relaunched in 2021 with a “German Romanticism meets Pop Art” design.
• Killepitsch — The herbal liqueur the Busch family’s Düsseldorf liqueur works first poured in 1955 at Et Kabüffke in the Altstadt, named in a wartime cellar, and made since 2005 in a glass factory in the Medienhafen by the fourth and fifth generations.
• Mampe — The spirits brand that traces its start to Stargard in Pomerania in 1831, grew in Berlin with Halb und Halb, adopted a white elephant in a red circle in 1951, and was revived in Berlin-Kreuzberg after 2012, under new owners since 2020.
• Żołądkowa Gorzka — The Polish spirit flavoured with macerated bitter oranges and spices, made under this name since 1950 in Lublin by Polmos Lublin, now Stock Polska of Stock Spirits Group, owned by CVC Capital Partners since 2021.
• Krupnik — The Polish honey-liqueur name that also became a clear vodka, built up by the Belvédère group, sold with its Polish business to United Beverages in 2020 and made today by Premium Distillers at the Starogard Gdański distillery founded in 1846.

Pisco, cachaça and anise spirits

Pisco Capel, Pisco Portón, BarSol, Leblon, Novo Fogo, Yeni Rakı and Ksarak.

• Pisco Capel — The Chilean pisco of Cooperativa Agrícola Pisquera Elqui Limitada (CAPEL), a growers’ cooperative formed in the Elqui Valley in 1938, headquartered in Vicuña and owned by its members in the Atacama and Coquimbo regions.
• Pisco Portón — The Peruvian pisco made at Hacienda La Caravedo in Ica, an estate its owners date to 1684, bought in 2010 by William and Brent Kallop with Johnny Schuler, launched in the US in 2011 and sold there as Caravedo after a trademark dispute with Patrón.
• BarSol — The Peruvian pisco founded by Diego Loret de Mola and Carlos Ferreyros, who took over the old Bodega San Isidro in Ica in 2002, distilled and bottled there, and imported into the US by San Francisco’s Hotaling & Co., formerly Anchor Distilling.
• Leblon — The premium cachaça launched in 2005 by Steve Luttmann with the French cognac distiller Gilles Merlet, made at Maison Leblon in Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, and wholly owned by Bacardi since July 2015.
• Novo Fogo — The organic cachaça brand launched in 2010 by Dragos and Emily Axinte, distilled in Morretes on the Paraná coast at the edge of the Atlantic Forest, run from a Seattle headquarters, and co-owned since 2022 by the music duo SOFI TUKKER.
• Yeni Rakı — The Turkish anise spirit made by the state monopoly Tekel until its alcohol arm was privatised as Mey İçki in 2004, owned by Diageo since August 2011, and distilled today in Alaşehir and Nevşehir.
• Ksarak — The Lebanese arak made by Château Ksara, the Bekaa Valley winery founded by Jesuits in 1857 and sold to a consortium of Lebanese businessmen in the early 1970s, flavoured with Mount Hermon aniseed and aged in clay jars.

At a glance: who owns the name and where it is made

Taken from each guide’s fact panel, as of October 2026. Ownership and production change; follow the link for sources and detail.

Brand	Founded	Owner	Where made
1800 Tequila	Jalisco, Mexico (as Cuervo 1800) (1967 per English Wikipedia; 1970s per the brand)	The Beckmann family, owners of Jose Cuervo	See guide
400 Conejos	See guide	Casa Cuervo (Becle)	See guide
Aalborg	See guide	See guide	See guide
Aberlour	Aberlour, Speyside, by James Fleming (1879)	Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard)	See guide
Akashi	See guide	Eigashima Shuzo Co., Ltd.	See guide
Alberta Premium	See guide	See guide	See guide
Amaro Lucano	See guide	Vena family (Lucano 1894), fourth generation	See guide
Amaro Montenegro	Bologna, Italy (1885)	Gruppo Montenegro (Montenegro S.r.l.)	See guide
Amrut	Bengaluru, India, by J. N. Radhakrishna Rao Jagdale (1948)	Jagdale family, privately held	See guide
Angel’s Envy	Louisville, Kentucky (2010)	Bacardi Limited, since 2015	See guide
Angostura	Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar), Venezuela (1824)	See guide	See guide
Angry Orchard	See guide	The Boston Beer Company	See guide
Ardbeg	Ardbeg, Isle of Islay, Scotland (1815)	See guide	See guide
Asbach	Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany (1892)	Underberg group (wholly since 2002)	See guide
Aspall	See guide	Molson Coors (since January 2018)	See guide
Auchentoshan	Dalmuir, near Clydebank, by John Bulloch (1823)	Suntory (Suntory Global Spirits)	See guide
Averna	Caltanissetta, Sicily (1868)	See guide	See guide
Baileys	Ireland (1974)	See guide	See guide
Balcones	Waco, Texas (2008)	Diageo (announced November 2022)	See guide
Ballantine’s	Edinburgh, Scotland (1827)	Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard), since 2005	See guide
BarSol	Ica, Peru (2002)	See guide	See guide
Basil Hayden	See guide	See guide	See guide
Becherovka	Karlovy Vary (then Carlsbad), Bohemia (1807 (the company dates continuous production from that year))	See guide	See guide
Beefeater	Chelsea, London (1863 (company date))	Pernod Ricard (since 2005)	See guide
Bell’s	See guide	See guide	See guide
Beluga	See guide	See guide	See guide
Belvedere	Żyrardów, Poland (1993 (distillery 1910))	Moët Hennessy (LVMH)	See guide
Berentzen	Haselünne, Emsland, Germany (1758)	See guide	See guide
Black Velvet	See guide	Heaven Hill Brands, Kentucky	See guide
Blandy’s	Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (1811)	Madeira Wine Company, Blandy family control	See guide
Blanton’s	See guide	See guide	See guide
Blenders Pride	India, by Seagram (1995)	Pernod Ricard India (since 2001)	See guide
Bollinger	Aÿ, Champagne, France (6 February 1829 (as Renaudin-Bollinger & Cie))	See guide	See guide
Bols	See guide	Nolet Group, Schiedam (control since 2024)	See guide
Boulard	Pays d’Auge, Normandy, France (1825)	See guide	See guide
Bowmore	See guide	Suntory Global Spirits (Suntory Holdings)	See guide
Brancott Estate	Montana Wines, set up 1961	Vinarchy (since 30 April 2025)	See guide
Braulio	See guide	Campari Group (via Fratelli Averna), since 2014	See guide
Brennivín	See guide	See guide	See guide
Brockmans	England (2008 (company); launched 2009, per 2014 trade coverage)	See guide	See guide
Bruichladdich	Rinns of Islay, Scotland (1881)	See guide	See guide
Buffalo Trace	See guide	Sazerac Company, since 1992	See guide
Bulldog	United States (2007)	Gruppo Campari (since 2017)	See guide
Bulleit	See guide	Diageo (Seagram from 1997)	See guide
Bumbu	See guide	Sovereign Brands, New York	Barbados (The Original); Panama (XO, 2019 report)
Bunnahabhain	Near Port Askaig, Islay, Scotland (1881)	CVH Spirits, East Kilbride (Remgro-controlled)	See guide
Bushmills	Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (1784 (distillery company); labels cite a 1608 licence)	See guide	See guide
Bénédictine	Fécamp, Normandy, France (1863)	See guide	See guide
Camus	Cognac, France (1863 (as La Grande Marque))	See guide	See guide
Canadian Club	Walkerville, Ontario, by Hiram Walker (1858)	Suntory Global Spirits (Fortune Brands from 2005)	Hiram Walker distillery, Windsor, Ontario
Caol Ila	Near Port Askaig, Islay, Scotland (1846)	Diageo	See guide
Cappelletti	Trento, Italy (1906 or 1909 (sources differ))	See guide	See guide
Captain Morgan	Seagram Company (1944)	See guide	See guide
Carpano	Turin, Italy (1786)	Fratelli Branca Distillerie, Milan (since 2001)	See guide
Casa Noble	See guide	See guide	See guide
Cazadores	See guide	Bacardi Limited, Hamilton, Bermuda	See guide
Chambord	Charles Jacquin et Cie, Philadelphia; made in the Loire Valley, France (Early 1980s (1982 per English Wikipedia; 1981 per VinePair))	See guide	See guide
Chartreuse	Carthusian order, France (1605 manuscript (per the order); Élixir 1764)	See guide	See guide
Cherry Heering	Peter F. Heering, Copenhagen, Denmark (1818 (shop); liqueur from 1819 per Dansk Biografisk Lexikon)	See guide	See guide
Chivas Regal	Aberdeen, Scotland (1909 (Chivas Regal); shop roots 1801)	See guide	See guide
Chopin	Poland (United States from 1997) (1993)	Tadeusz Dorda	See guide
Christian Brothers	See guide	Heaven Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky	See guide
Christian Drouin	Gonneville-sur-Honfleur, Normandy (1960)	See guide	See guide
Cinzano	Turin, Italy (1757)	See guide	See guide
Clase Azul	Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (1997)	See guide	See guide
Cocchi	Asti, Piedmont, Italy (1891)	See guide	See guide
Cointreau	Angers, France (1849)	See guide	See guide
Coors Light	Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado (1978)	Molson Coors Beverage Company	See guide
Corralejo	See guide	Leonardo Rodríguez Moreno (hacienda owner)	See guide
Courvoisier	Bercy (Paris); Jarnac, France (1809 (company); 1835 (Wikipedia))	See guide	See guide
Crown Royal	See guide	Diageo (Seagram sale completed December 2001)	See guide
Cruzan	See guide	Suntory Global Spirits	See guide
Cutty Sark	London, England (1923)	See guide	See guide
Cynar	Padua, Italy (1948 formula; on sale 1950–1952 (sources differ))	See guide	See guide
Cîroc	France (2003)	See guide	See guide
Damoiseau	See guide	The Damoiseau family	See guide
De Kuyper	by Petrus de Kuyper, as a cooperage (1695)	The De Kuyper family (Koninklijke De Kuyper)	See guide
Deep Eddy	Austin, Texas (2010)	Heaven Hill Brands, Bardstown, Kentucky (since 2015)	See guide
Del Maguey	By the artist Ron Cooper (1995)	Pernod Ricard, majority stake	See guide
Delamain	Jarnac, Charente, France (1824 (James Delamain settled in Jarnac in 1759))	See guide	See guide
Dewar’s	High Street, Perth, Scotland (1846)	See guide	See guide
Diplomático	See guide	Brown-Forman (deal completed January 2023)	See guide
Disaronno	Saronno, Italy (1947 (as ILLVA Saronno; shop from c. 1900))	See guide	See guide
Dom Pérignon	See guide	See guide	See guide
Don Julio	See guide	Diageo (full ownership since 2015)	See guide
Don Q	See guide	Destilería Serrallés, family-owned	See guide
Dr. McGillicuddy’s	See guide	Sazerac Company, New Orleans	See guide
Drambuie	See guide	See guide	See guide
Dubonnet	Paris, France (1846)	See guide	See guide
Eagle Rare	See guide	Sazerac Company (since 1989)	See guide
Edinburgh Gin	Scotland (2010)	See guide	See guide
El Dorado	Guyana (1992)	Demerara Distillers Ltd, Georgetown	See guide
el Jimador	By Casa Herradura (1994)	Brown-Forman	See guide
Elijah Craig	See guide	Heaven Hill Distilleries, family-owned	See guide
Empress 1908	British Columbia, then the United States (2017)	Milestone Brands, Austin, Texas (since June 2022)	See guide
Espolòn	See guide	Campari Group (deal announced November 2008)	See guide
Evan Williams	Bardstown, Kentucky (1957)	Heaven Hill (Shapira family)	See guide
Fenjiu	See guide	See guide	See guide
Fernet-Branca	Milan, Italy (1845)	See guide	See guide
Finlandia	Finland (1970 (by Alko))	See guide	See guide
Fireball	See guide	Sazerac Company, since 1989	See guide
Fortaleza	Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico (2005 (the company’s date))	Family-run	See guide
Forty Creek	Grimsby, Ontario, Canada (as Kittling Ridge) (1992)	Campari Group (since 2014)	See guide
Founders Brewing	Grand Rapids, Michigan, as Canal Street Brewing Co. (1997)	See guide	See guide
Four Pillars	Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia (late 2013)	Lion (Kirin group), wholly since 2023	See guide
Four Roses	See guide	E. & J. Gallo Winery	See guide
Frangelico	See guide	See guide	See guide
Fundador	See guide	See guide	See guide
Galliano	Livorno, Italy (1896 (the liqueur); distillery 1872)	See guide	See guide
Gin Mare	Spain (March 2010)	Brown-Forman (since November 2022)	See guide
Glenfarclas	See guide	See guide	See guide
Glenfiddich	Dufftown, Moray, Scotland (1886 (first spirit Christmas Day 1887))	See guide	See guide
Glengoyne	See guide	Ian Macleod Distillers, family-owned, since 2003	See guide
Glenmorangie	Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland (1843)	See guide	See guide
Goldschläger	See guide	Sazerac Company, New Orleans (since 2018)	See guide
Gordon’s	Southwark, London, England (1769)	See guide	See guide
Gosling’s	St. George’s, Bermuda (1806)	See guide	See guide
Grand Marnier	Neauphle-le-Château, France (1827 (distillery); liqueur 1880)	See guide	See guide
Grant’s	See guide	William Grant & Sons, family-owned	See guide
Green Spot	See guide	See guide	See guide
Haku	United States (2018)	Suntory (House of Suntory, Suntory Global Spirits)	Distilled in Kagoshima, filtered in Osaka
Hakushu	Hakushu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan (1973)	Suntory	See guide
Havana Club	Cárdenas, Cuba (1934 (José Arechabala S.A.))	See guide	See guide
Hendrick’s	Girvan, South Ayrshire (1999)	William Grant & Sons	See guide
Herradura	See guide	Brown-Forman (completed January 2007)	See guide
Hibiki	See guide	Suntory	See guide
High West	Park City, Utah (2006 (VinePair); 2007 (English Wikipedia))	Constellation Brands, since 2016	See guide
Highland Park	See guide	Highland Distillers, part of Edrington, Glasgow	See guide
Hine	Jarnac, Charente, France (1763 (house date); Hine name from 1817)	See guide	See guide
Hornitos	Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico (1950 (per the brand))	Suntory Global Spirits	See guide
Hpnotiq	See guide	Heaven Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky (since January 2003)	See guide
Ilegal Mezcal	Antigua, Guatemala (founder John Rexer) (2006)	Bacardi (minority 2017, full 2023)	See guide
J&B	London, as wine merchants (1749)	See guide	See guide
Jim Beam	See guide	See guide	See guide
José Cuervo	Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico (1795 (royal licence))	See guide	See guide
Jura	Isle of Jura, Inner Hebrides, Scotland (1810)	Whyte & Mackay (Emperador, Philippines)	See guide
Kahlúa	Veracruz, Mexico (1936)	See guide	See guide
Kavalan	See guide	King Car Group, Taiwan	See guide
Ketel One	See guide	See guide	See guide
KI NO BI	Kyoto, Japan (October 2016)	See guide	See guide
Kilbeggan	Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Ireland (1757)	See guide	See guide
Killepitsch	See guide	See guide	Glass factory, Düsseldorf Medienhafen (since 2005)
Knob Creek	See guide	See guide	See guide
Koskenkorva	Finland, by the state alcohol company (1953)	Anora Group, Helsinki (since 2021)	See guide
Krupnik	See guide	See guide	See guide
Ksarak	See guide	Château Ksara SAL (Lebanese consortium since 1972–73)	See guide
Lagavulin	Lagavulin, Islay, Scotland (1816)	Diageo	See guide
Lamb’s	London, England (1849)	See guide	See guide
Laphroaig	Islay, near Port Ellen, Scotland (1815)	See guide	See guide
Leblon	United States and Brazil (September 2005)	Bacardi, full ownership since July 2015	See guide
Licor 43	Cartagena, Spain (1946)	See guide	See guide
Licor Beirão	See guide	Casa Redondo, Redondo family	See guide
Lillet	Podensac, Gironde, France (1872)	Pernod Ricard (since 2008)	See guide
Linie	Trondheim, Norway (1821)	See guide	See guide
Lot No. 40	See guide	Corby Spirit and Wine (Pernod Ricard majority)	See guide
Luxardo	Zara (now Zadar), Dalmatia (1821)	See guide	See guide
Luzhou Laojiao	See guide	See guide	See guide
Maker’s Mark	Loretto, Kentucky (1953 (distillery bought); first bottled 1958)	See guide	See guide
Malfy	United States and United Kingdom (2016)	Pernod Ricard (since 2019)	See guide
Malibu	United Kingdom (1980 (developed in 1978))	See guide	See guide
Mampe	Stargard, Pomerania (now Poland) (1831)	See guide	See guide
Mars Shinshu	Miyada, Nagano Prefecture, Japan (1985)	Hombo Shuzo, Kagoshima	See guide
Martell	Cognac, France (1715)	See guide	See guide
Martini	Turin, Italy (1863 (as Martini, Sola e C.ia))	See guide	See guide
McDowell’s	See guide	See guide	See guide
Meletti	Ascoli Piceno, 20 September 1870 (1870)	The Meletti family (company)	See guide
Metaxa	Piraeus, Greece (1888 (distillery bought 1885))	See guide	See guide
Michter’s	See guide	See guide	See guide
Midleton	New Midleton Distillery, County Cork, Ireland (1984)	See guide	See guide
Minuty	See guide	Moët Hennessy (majority, 2023)	See guide
Molinari	Civitavecchia, Italy (1945)	See guide	See guide
Monkey 47	Black Forest, Germany (2010)	See guide	See guide
Monkey Shoulder	UK and France (2005)	William Grant & Sons, family-owned	See guide
Montelobos	New York, California and Texas (2012)	Campari Group, controlling interest	See guide
Moutai	See guide	Kweichow Moutai, state-owned	See guide
Moët & Chandon	Épernay, France (1743 (as Moët et Cie))	See guide	See guide
Myers’s	Kingston, Jamaica (1879)	Sazerac Company (since 2018)	See guide
Nardini	Bassano del Grappa, Italy (1779)	See guide	See guide
New Amsterdam	See guide	E. & J. Gallo Winery, Modesto	See guide
Nikka	Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan (as Dai Nippon Kaju) (1934)	Asahi Group (wholly owned since 2001)	See guide
Noilly Prat	See guide	See guide	See guide
Nonino	Ronchi di Percoto, Friuli, by Orazio Nonino (1897)	The Nonino family	See guide
Novo Fogo	See guide	See guide	See guide
O.P. Anderson	Gothenburg Exhibition, Sweden (1891)	Anora Group, Helsinki (since 2021)	See guide
Oban	Oban, Argyll, Scotland (1794)	See guide	See guide
Officer’s Choice	See guide	Allied Blenders & Distillers, Mumbai	See guide
Old Forester	See guide	Brown-Forman, Louisville	See guide
Old Monk	India (1954)	See guide	See guide
Old Pulteney	Pulteneytown, Wick, by James Henderson (1826)	Inver House Distillers (ThaiBev)	See guide
Olmeca	See guide	Pernod Ricard	See guide
Osborne	El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz (1772 (company date))	See guide	See guide
Otard	Château de Cognac, Cognac, France (1795)	See guide	See guide
Ouzo 12	Constantinople (Istanbul) (1880)	See guide	See guide
Pallini	Antrodoco, Lazio (1875)	See guide	See guide
Pampero	Venezuela (1938)	Gruppo Montenegro, Italy (since 2024)	See guide
Passoã	Europe, under Rémy Cointreau (1986)	Lucas Bols, Amsterdam (sole owner since 2020)	Netherlands, since 2021
Patrón	Jalisco, Mexico (1989)	See guide	See guide
Paul Masson	See guide	See guide	See guide
Pernod	Pontarlier, France (Pernod Fils) (1805; Anis Pernod, Avignon, 1918)	See guide	See guide
Pimm’s	City of London (1823 or 1840 (sources differ))	See guide	See guide
Pinnacle Vodka	Lewiston, Maine, by White Rock Distilleries (2002–03)	See guide	See guide
Pisco Capel	Elqui Valley, Coquimbo, Chile (1938)	Cooperativa Agrícola Pisquera Elqui Limitada (CAPEL), a growers’ cooperative	See guide
Pisco Portón	United States (first import) (2011)	Pisco Portón LLC, Houston; made by Destilería La Caravedo	See guide
Planteray	By Maison Ferrand, France (1997 or 1999 (sources differ))	Maison Ferrand, founded by Alexandre Gabriel	See guide
Plymouth Gin	Plymouth, Devon, England (1793)	See guide	See guide
Poli	Schiavon, Vicenza, Italy (1898)	See guide	See guide
Powers	Dublin, Ireland (1791)	See guide	See guide
Proper No. Twelve	Ireland and the United States (September 2018)	Proximo Spirits, majority since 2021	See guide
Père Magloire	See guide	Spirit France (since 2007, company says)	See guide
Ramazzotti	Milan, Italy (1815)	Pernod Ricard	Canelli, Asti
Redbreast	See guide	Irish Distillers (Pernod Ricard)	See guide
Rhum Clément	See guide	Groupe Bernard Hayot (Spiribam), since 1986	See guide
Rhum J.M	See guide	Groupe Bernard Hayot (Spiribam), since 2002	See guide
Ricard	Marseille, France (1932)	See guide	See guide
Rittenhouse	See guide	Heaven Hill, family-owned	See guide
Roe & Co	Dublin, Ireland (2017)	Diageo	See guide
Roku	Japan (4 July 2017)	See guide	See guide
Ron Abuelo	See guide	Varela Hermanos, family company	See guide
Royal Stag	India, by Seagram (1995)	Pernod Ricard (Pernod Ricard India)	See guide
RumChata	Wisconsin, United States (2009)	E. & J. Gallo Winery, since 2021	See guide
Rumple Minze	See guide	Diageo, London	See guide
Russian Standard	Moscow, Russia (1998 (brand); 1992 (Russian Standard Corporation))	See guide	See guide
Rémy Martin	Cognac region, France (1724)	See guide	See guide
Sailor Jerry	Sailor Jerry Ltd (1999)	See guide	See guide
Santa Teresa	See guide	See guide	See guide
Sauza	Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico (1873)	Suntory Global Spirits	See guide
Seagram’s 7 Crown	See guide	Diageo	See guide
Select Aperitivo	See guide	Montenegro S.r.l., Gruppo Montenegro	See guide
Sheridan’s	Ireland (1994 (Wikipedia); 1993 (Difford’s Guide))	See guide	See guide
Sipsmith	London, England (2009)	See guide	See guide
SKYY	San Francisco, California (1992)	Campari Group (control 2002, full 2006)	See guide
Slane	See guide	Brown-Forman, Louisville, Kentucky (since 2015)	See guide
Sobieski	By the French group Belvédère (1998)	Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits (MBWS)	Poland, by United Beverages (since 2020 deal)
Soplica	Gniezno, Poland (1888 factory; first bottle 1891)	CEDC International (Maspex Group)	See guide
Southern Comfort	See guide	See guide	See guide
Springbank	Campbeltown, Kintyre, Scotland (1828 (licensed))	See guide	See guide
St-Germain	The Cooper Spirits Company, New York (2007)	See guide	See guide
St. George Spirits	California (1982)	See guide	See guide
Stolichnaya	Moscow, Soviet Union (Trademark dated 1938; production confirmed by 1948)	See guide	See guide
Strega	Benevento, Italy (1860)	See guide	See guide
Suze	See guide	Pernod (1965), now Pernod Ricard	See guide
Svedka	Sweden / United States (1998)	See guide	See guide
Talisker	Carbost, Isle of Skye, Scotland (1830)	Diageo	See guide
Tanqueray	Bloomsbury, London, England (1830)	See guide	See guide
Teacher’s	Glasgow, Scotland (1830 (as given on the label))	See guide	See guide
Teeling	Dublin, Ireland (2012)	Bacardi (majority since December 2023)	See guide
Tequila Ocho	Jalisco, Mexico (2008)	Heaven Hill (via Samson & Surrey), since 2022	See guide
The Balvenie	See guide	William Grant & Sons	See guide
The Botanist	Bruichladdich Distillery, Islay, Scotland (2011 (first distilled 2010))	Rémy Cointreau (since 2012)	See guide
The Dalmore	Alness, Ross-shire, Scotland (1839)	See guide	See guide
The Famous Grouse	See guide	See guide	See guide
The Glenlivet	Upper Drumin, Glenlivet, Moray, Scotland (1824)	See guide	See guide
The Kraken	United States (2009–2010)	Proximo Spirits, Jersey City, New Jersey	See guide
The Macallan	Easter Elchies, Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland (1824)	See guide	See guide
The Sexton	United States (2017)	Proximo Spirits (Becle group)	Distilled at Bushmills, County Antrim
Three Olives	England-distilled vodka, late 1990s (1998)	Proximo Spirits, Jersey City, since 2007	United States since the 2023 relaunch
Tia Maria	Jamaica (1940s)	See guide	See guide
Tito’s	See guide	See guide	See guide
Tomatin	Tomatin, near Inverness, Scotland (1897)	Takara Shuzo, Kyoto, Japan	See guide
Torres	Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia (1870)	See guide	See guide
Tuaca	Livorno, Italy (1938, Italian Wikipedia and Difford’s Guide say)	Sazerac Company (since 2016)	See guide
Tullamore D.E.W.	Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland (1829 (distillery))	See guide	See guide
Underberg	Rheinberg, Lower Rhine, Germany (17 June 1846)	See guide	See guide
UV Vodka	See guide	Phillips Distilling (United States Distilled Products)	Princeton, Minnesota (company says)
Veuve Clicquot	Reims, France (1772)	See guide	See guide
Villa Maria	Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand (1961)	Indevin, since 2021	See guide
Westland	Seattle, Washington (2010)	Rémy Cointreau, since 2016–17	See guide
Westons	See guide	H. Weston & Sons, family-owned	See guide
WhistlePig	Shoreham, Vermont (2007 (land bought); brand launched 2010)	See guide	See guide
Whitley Neill	England (2005)	Halewood Artisanal Spirits (bought 2009)	See guide
Whyte & Mackay	Glasgow, by James Whyte and Charles Mackay (1882)	Emperador Inc., Philippines	See guide
Wild Turkey	See guide	See guide	See guide
Woodford Reserve	Woodford County, Kentucky (1996)	Brown-Forman	See guide
Wray & Nephew	Kingston, Jamaica (1825)	Campari Group, since 2012	See guide
Writers’ Tears	See guide	Amber Beverage Group (since November 2021)	See guide
Wuliangye	See guide	Wuliangye group, state-owned	See guide
Wyborowa	Poznań, Poland (recipe 1926 (company))	Pernod Ricard (Wyborowa S.A.)	See guide
Yanghe	See guide	See guide	See guide
Yeni Rakı	See guide	See guide	See guide
Ypióca	See guide	See guide	See guide
Żołądkowa Gorzka	See guide	Stock Spirits Group (CVC Capital Partners since 2021)	See guide
Żubrówka	See guide	See guide	See guide

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