Use as the commercial-transition bridge between medieval aqua vitae traditions and the later scaling of European spirits production and trade.
This passage follows the source’s account of medieval medical and local production and marks the transition from small local demand to documented commercial movement of spirits.
Estreicher identifies the early sixteenth century as the beginning of commercial distillation for human consumption and reports that Bordeaux notarial registers record a spirits shipment to Picardie in 1513, followed by shipments to the Netherlands in 1515 and Ireland in 1517.
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Distillation and Distilled Wines
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