Useful for sensory-method and bottle-condition cautions; the rapid-oxidation explanation is an observed and attributed claim, not established chemistry.
The episode introduces the comparison between earlier Van Winkle liquid and the first Buffalo Trace-distilled 15-year bottling.
Thompson describes an old bottle whose flavor changed after opening and then contrasts that experience with a Buffalo Trace laboratory tasting using labeled samples, controls, water, glassware, and a spittoon.
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Part III, Chapters 1–2
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