A useful practitioner corroboration for managed variation, not a controlled sensory study.
Named critic interview and tasting guide.
Fred Minnick describes day-to-day variation in his own tasting performance and emphasizes that adjacent barrels can diverge despite shared inputs, making selection and context part of sensory judgment.
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The Critic / How to Taste Bourbon Like a Pro
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Paraphrase: Fred Minnick describes day-to-day variation in his own tasting performance and emphasizes that adjacent barrels can diverge despite shared inputs, making selection and context part of sensory judgment.
Context: Named critic interview and tasting guide.
Boundary: A useful practitioner corroboration for managed variation, not a controlled sensory study.
Locator: 203–207. Numerical coordinates are supplied PDF sheets, not print pages. This passage was checked within the full338-sheet textual and visual review. Verification confirms the attributed paraphrase, not every underlying claim or an independent experiment.
