Campbell, Sally Van Winkle. But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald. Louisville, KY: Limestone Lane Press, 1999. Expanded ebook, release date not stated; supplied 291-page PDF capture includes material through at least 2004.
The 75 th birthday and company-centenary celebration in 1949 frames Pappy's business philosophy: limited customers, dependable quality, warehouse receipts, distributor loyalty and restraint about expansion. Weller's 1849 wholesale origin, nineteenth-century addresses,1873 fire and rectification history precede Pappy's 1893 employment. The September 12,1956 letter on PDF 37 explicitly acknowledges wholesale liquor dealing and rectifying while asserting an earlier small alcohol distillery. Road-selling recollections describe relationships and varied customers.
Sally Van Winkle Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon, expanded ebook (original printing 1999), supplied PDF pp. 17–40.
Sally Van Winkle Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald (Louisville, KY: Limestone Lane Press, 1999; expanded ebook, release date not stated), supplied PDF pp. 17–40.
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Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon, PDF 17–40.
Chapter 1 — business origins and the 1949 speech
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Bibliography: Campbell, Sally Van Winkle. But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald. Louisville, KY: Limestone Lane Press, 1999. Expanded ebook, release date not stated; supplied 291-page PDF capture includes material through at least 2004.
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Do not collapse 1849 company lineage into the construction date of Stitzel-Weller. The letter is retrospective. Brand labels are evidence of marketed identities, not proof of all distillation origins. Accounts of moonshiners buying legal stock remain attributed recollections.
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