Ichlibitiche/whiskydb-fine-spirits-sample

🥃 WhiskyDB — Fine Spirits & Whisky Dataset (Free Sample)

A free sample of WhiskyDB: a structured, relational dataset of whiskies and fine spirits built entirely from open, legally accessible public sources — government label registries (US TTB COLA), corporate registries (UK Companies House), the EU eAmbrosia GI register, Open Food Facts, Wikipedia/Wikidata, and open auction statistics — with a provenance ledger entry behind every record.

This sample contains 15 spirits + 15 distilleries, plus the fully open cask & flavor taxonomies (14 cask styles, 15 flavor descriptors).

The full dataset covers 1,290+ spirits, 3,200+ distilleries & producers across 110+ countries, 270+ protected GI appellations, and 20,000+ monthly auction-price benchmarks (Nov 2005 → today) — the auction index is the differentiated part: 225 consecutive months of distillery-level mean winning bids, ideal for valuation models and price-vs-age studies.

Get the Full Dataset

• 🔗 Official Portal: whisky-database.pages.dev — Standard Catalog $49/mo · API & Valuation $99/mo
• 📧 Contact: whiskeydn.kite979@simplelogin.com
• 🐙 GitHub: WhiskyyDB/whisky-database
• 🥃 Interactive Explorer: Dataset Sample Explorers Space — WhiskyDB tab

Files

File	License	Description
spirits.csv	CC BY-NC 4.0	Sample bottlings: name, type, age, ABV, volume, source provenance
distilleries.csv	CC BY-NC 4.0	Sample producers: name, country, region, source provenance
casks_taxonomy.csv	CC BY 4.0	Hierarchical cask styles (category → sub-type → style + wood species) — free for any use incl. commercial
flavors_taxonomy.csv	CC BY 4.0	Controlled flavor vocabulary (macro category → descriptor) — free for any use incl. commercial

Quick Start

import pandas as pd

base = "hf://datasets/Ichlibitiche/whiskydb-fine-spirits-sample/"
spirits = pd.read_csv(base + "spirits.csv")
distilleries = pd.read_csv(base + "distilleries.csv")
casks = pd.read_csv(base + "casks_taxonomy.csv")
print(len(spirits), "spirits, e.g.", spirits.iloc[0]["name"])

Use Cases

• Bar-menu & hospitality software (clean names, types, ABV, volumes)
• Collection-tracking and spirits-discovery apps
• Whisky investment analytics on a 19-year monthly auction index (full dataset)
• Flavor/cask-based recommendation engines on the open taxonomies
• ML / RAG corpora over a provenance-tracked spirits knowledge base

License

Sample data: CC BY-NC 4.0 — attribution, non-commercial. Taxonomies: CC BY 4.0 — free for any use with attribution, including commercial. Full dataset: commercial license; records derived from ODbL/CC-BY-SA sources retain upstream attribution obligations. Corrections: whiskeydn.kite979@simplelogin.com.