Strengthens the existing premiumization and product-differentiation network. Exact market counts and causal language remain attributed and time-bound.
The passage is a 2007 account of the premium revival and includes period sales and release-count statements that are not being carried forward as current facts.
Givens places Blanton's 1984 single-barrel release, Booker's 1988 introduction, and Jim Beam's 1992 Small-Batch Bourbon Collection within a late-twentieth-century shift toward higher-end bourbon, contrasting selected single barrels and smaller mingled batches with standard bottlings.
“The Smooth Croon of Bourbon: A Polite Introduction” — premium bourbon revival
“The Smooth Croon of Bourbon: A Polite Introduction” — premium bourbon revival
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