Use attribution to Martini and retain the September 2009 date and five-week age only when this citation is attached.
In Martini's 2021 account of the modern Texas industry, Garrison Brothers produced whiskey first, while Balcones brought the first Texas whiskey to market with a five-week-old corn whiskey in September 2009.
Verified against the complete edition at displayed pages 13–14. Treat the underlying priority claim as a lead for future primary-source corroboration.
This is an explicitly attributed secondary-source chronology. It distinguishes production from market release but does not independently settle every possible priority claim or define what should count as the first Texas whiskey.
The bounded wording accurately reports Martini's distinction and preserves the difference between producing spirit and releasing a product.
Created for the evidence-controlled Texas regional history dossier.
Evidence boundary
This Claim reports a distinction made in a named 2021 secondary source. It should not be rewritten as an unqualified universal first.
Public-use wording
Use “In Nico Martini’s 2021 account…” or equivalent attribution.
September29 source correction
Fresh Texas Whiskey audit finds competing ages for the initial Balcones release: five weeksPDF16 versus two weeksPDF332. Treat this claim as an attributed source account and retain the production/release distinction; primary chronology remains required.
