Strong practitioner-journalism evidence for the mechanism, not proof that tenure guarantees judgment or that one individual caused a product outcome.
Bryson describes production personnel as the whiskey's memory and uses Ronnie Eddins's career-scale reflection to show delayed feedback.
Long-tenured distillers and warehouse managers influence production volume, warehouse strategy, gradual profile evolution, substitutions, monitoring, and sampling; maturation can delay a complete learning cycle for many years.
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