Haara — Bourbon Justice — Chapter 6, “Bourbon Marketers Write the Book on Puffery and Exaggeration” — puffery and handmade-label litigation; measurable Hermitage process claims — puffery and testable claims

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Haara, Brian F. Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America. Foreword by Fred Minnick. Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2018.

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Supports the distinction between vague promotion and verifiable production-method representations.

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Historical whiskey labels became enforceable representations of product identity

Whiskey packaging, certification, and labeling are distinct trust mechanisms

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Whiskey marketing claims fall on a spectrum from puffery to testable fact

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Brian F. Haara, Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America (Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2018), Chapter 6, “Bourbon Marketers Write the Book on Puffery and Exaggeration” — puffery and handmade-label litigation; measurable Hermitage process claims.

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Bourbon Justice — full-source synthesis

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