Pacult, F. Paul. Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon: The Story of How Buffalo Trace Distillery Became the World’s Most Awarded Distillery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
Elmer T. Lee, Robert Baranaskas, and Ferdie Falk developed Blanton’s in 1983–1984 as a premium single-barrel bourbon; early blind comparisons and targeted positioning helped distinguish it in a weak bourbon market.
F. Paul Pacult, Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon: The Story of How Buffalo Trace Distillery Became the World’s Most Awarded Distillery (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021), PDF sheets 143–145.
F. Paul Pacult, Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon: The Story of How Buffalo Trace Distillery Became the World’s Most Awarded Distillery (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021), PDF sheets 143–145.
PDF sheet 145
PDF sheet 143
Pacult, Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon, PDF sheets 143–145.
Chapter 13 — Blanton’s Single Barrel
Fresh full-copy audit, 2026-09-29. PDF143–145: blind comparison used selected Blanton barrels against retail Maker bottles, as book acknowledges; not unbiased brand superiority evidence. First single-barrel/fullstrength and WarehouseH fifth/sixthfloor claims require narrower verification.
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