Private-barrel programs convert tasting from passive evaluation into a consequential selection process involving comparison, purchase, allocation, and a traceable barrel identity.
Commercial framing and limited samples can exaggerate the consumer’s control over the final product.
This bridges sensory education, retail, tourism, and blending culture and deserves its own process guide.
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Private-barrel programs convert tasting from passive evaluation into a consequential selection process involving comparison, purchase, allocation, and a traceable barrel identity.
Reasoning
This bridges sensory education, retail, tourism, and blending culture and deserves its own process guide.
Commercial framing and limited samples can exaggerate the consumer’s control over the final product.
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Maturity checklist
Kentucky Bourbon Country (2020) — full-reading audit
PDF sheets 234–237 support consequential consumer or retailer selection, but participation is bounded by the producer's candidates and program rules. A traceable selection may involve more than one barrel, notably Woodford's described two-barrel program; do not imply universal single-barrel identity. This substantially overlaps the existing private-selection authorship note, which provides the fuller mechanism and limits.
Related selection-authorship note: 
Existing maturity and other-source contributions retained. Locators refer to the 317-sheet supplied PDF; proposed applications remain internal.
Kentucky Bourbon Country (2016) — source contribution audit
PDF250–253 supports consequential selection within producer-defined candidates and rules. Woodford's two-barrel mingling on252 prevents a universal one-barrel-identity claim. The fuller existing selection-authorship note already handles this mechanism; retain both identities and cross-reference rather than create a third note.
Locators refer to the 320-sheet second-edition PDF. Existing other-source contributions, relations and maturity are retained. Proposed Academy applications remain internal.