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The passage occurs during a tasting and family-history discussion, combining Julian's self-description with Thompson's framing of remembered taste.
Thompson reports Julian Van Winkle III explaining that he does not make the whiskey; his role is to find and select barrels that recall the family's preferred Stitzel-Weller profile.
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