Useful as a provenance framework; do not treat Robinson's rejection of terroir as settled consensus.
This is the author's conceptual model for explaining whiskey as a multistage manufactured transformation.
Robinson argues that whiskey provenance is distributed across raw materials, equipment, people, fermentation, distillation, maturation, warehousing, and proofing rather than reducible to one agricultural place.
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Class One — Terroir vs. Provenance
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Robinson argues that whiskey provenance is distributed across raw materials, equipment, people, fermentation, distillation, maturation, warehousing, and proofing rather than reducible to one agricultural place.
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Complete replacement PDF 36–37; displayed ebook 25–26. Useful as a provenance framework; do not treat Robinson's rejection of terroir as settled consensus.
Verified as a faithful paraphrase of Robinson's 2019 text; not independent verification of the underlying claim. The source-level critique in 