Useful for explaining blending as inventory design and sensory matching; the example is cognac, so whiskey application is an inference supported more directly elsewhere.
Comparative non-whiskey evidence about component selection and house-style reproduction.
In Hacker's account of cognac blending, Hennessy master blender Yann Fillioux explains that a house expression should taste the same years later even when the individual component eaux-de-vie differ, because the blender selects from a large component inventory by taste rather than by a simple average age.
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Chapter 16 — Brandy and Cognac—Alike, Yet Different
Legacy partial local sheet 76 is retained for citation stability; the same passage was cross-verified in the complete 808-sheet edition at local sheet 437 on 2026-08-28.
Verified paraphrase from one canonical Source.
Evidence
A blender can reproduce a stable house expression from a changing inventory through sensory component selection; the full paraphrase is stored in Excerpt Text.
Location and context
Legacy partial local PDF sheet 76, cross-verified at complete-edition local sheet 437, cognac chapter.
Annotation
Use as a comparative blending analogy. Whiskey-specific sources remain controlling.