A European distillery visit starts at a median of 15 EUR

15 EUR

Median cheapest visit, euro-priced distilleries

10 to 25 EUR

Middle half of the euro prices

241

Distilleries with a published price

Every figure here is a starting price rather than a typical spend. For each distillery the dataset keeps a single number, the cheapest per-person tour or tasting it publishes, so the median describes the door a visitor can walk through most cheaply, not the ticket most visitors buy. Read across countries, that starting point moves a long way. Among the countries pricing in euros, France sits lowest with a median of 12 EUR, while Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands all sit at 20 EUR. The spread inside a single country is wider still: German distilleries start anywhere from 5 EUR to 79 EUR, and French ones from 2.5 EUR to 45 EUR. Those two countries hold both ends of the whole euro range, which runs from 2.5 EUR to 79 EUR.

What stands out

• A published price is the exception. Only 241 distilleries across the 40 countries in the directory give one, out of 8079 active producers of all three kinds.
• Euro prices run from 2.5 EUR to 79 EUR. The cheapest entry point in the dataset is a French distillery at 2.5 EUR, and the dearest starting price among euro rows is a German one at 79 EUR.
• The United Kingdom has the widest range of any country here, from 10 GBP to 250 GBP across 67 distilleries, with a median of 25 GBP. Those are pounds, so the level cannot be set against the euro medians, but the width of the range can.
• Length is published less often than price: 149 of the 241 priced distilleries also give a duration, and the median among those is 75 minutes.

What this does not measure: the dataset holds one price per distillery, the cheapest it publishes, so nothing here describes a premium tasting, a warehouse tour or a private booking. The figure is the cheapest offering a single visitor can turn up and buy, and offerings that are not a visit at all were set aside by a published rule rather than by judgement case by case. It cannot say what a visitor actually pays. Coverage is thin and uneven, 241 priced distilleries in all, and the country table only reaches seven countries because the rest fall below the reporting threshold. Prices that only appear inside a booking widget, on a PDF or on request are not counted, and a distillery that charges nothing is not the same as one that simply never published a figure. The euro-wide median, quartiles and range are computed on the 157 euro rows alone and say nothing about the 67 distilleries pricing in GBP, the 6 in DKK, the 5 in SEK, the 4 in CHF or the 2 in NOK.