Concrete tertiary examples of managing variation through finishing and age assembly. Product status and tasting claims are not generalized.
Brand-centered examples following the book's discussion of small-batch bourbon.
Hacker uses two premium-bourbon examples to show post-maturation differentiation: one expression is finished with seared French-oak staves after conventional aging, while another is assembled at barrel proof from six-, eight-, and twelve-year stocks.
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Bourbon chapter — finishing and vatting examples
Legacy partial local sheet 20 is retained for citation stability; the same passage was cross-verified in the complete 808-sheet edition at local sheet 335 on 2026-08-28.
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Finishing and multi-age vatting differentiate mature bourbon; full paraphrase is stored in Excerpt Text.
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Local PDF sheet 20, bourbon chapter.
Annotation
Use as tertiary examples for CLM-12; do not generalize product status or tasting language.