Supports the distinction between inherited identity and earned operational or representative authority.
Although Noe already had nearly twenty years at the plant, the company required an additional explicit evaluation before public succession.
Noe describes intensive training by a brand specialist, Booker Noe, and master distiller Jerry Dalton, including chemistry, production science, sensory work, reading, and tests, before he was approved to represent the brand.
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The Making of a Bourbon Ambassador
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