Recent Geographical Indication Articles

England's New Whisky Shield Is Scotland's Headache: The Battle Over the UK's Most Consequential GI Decision in Years On September 11, 2026, the UK government did something it had never done before: it handed England its own legally protected whisky identity. The Department for Environment, Food an

England Gets Its GI: The Whisky War That's Shaking the UK Spirits Industry For more than a century, English whisky was little more than a footnote — a ghost category remembered mostly by historians and the occasional trivia buff. That era ended definitively on September 11, 2026, when the UK gover

Alberta Is Drawing a Line in the Prairie Soil: The New Legal Identity of Canadian Whisky's Most Ambitious Province For decades, the whisky world has operated on a familiar hierarchy. Scotch sits at the top, commanding reverence and premium shelf space. Bourbon owns the American identity. Irish whi

England's Whisky Finally Gets Its Name Protected — And It's a Bigger Deal Than You Think For most American whiskey drinkers, the phrase "English whisky" probably doesn't conjure the same romantic gravity as Scotch or Irish. But that's changing, and faster than most people realize. On September 11,

Ireland Opens the Books on Irish Whiskey: A Landmark Review of the Rules That Define a Nation's Spirit Something significant is happening on the island of Ireland this summer, and it has nothing to do with the weather. On June 26, 2026, the Irish government formally opened a public consultation th