Use as an organizing model rather than a universal law. Specific company histories and the treatment of sourced producers need independent evidence.
A broad framework for locating American whiskey's transition from local distilling through rectification, national brands, conglomerates, and modern sourced products.
Wondrich organizes spirits commerce into interacting production, merchant, and brand-owning systems. Industrialization, advertising, factory bottling, tamper resistance, trademark law, corporate consolidation, and later bulk sourcing progressively changed who could author, distribute, and capture value from a spirit without eliminating earlier models.
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