Useful for linking the growth of distilling to specialist fabrication, maintenance labor and lead times rather than treating a still as a generic commodity. Quantities belong to this historical snapshot, not current supplier capacity.
The entire written source was reviewed. Comments, when present, are distinguished from the authored article.
Company history section attributes the 1904 founding to W. Elmore Sherman buying the Louisville branch; Mike Sherman says the origin of the Vendome name is unknown. The account describes Canadian orders and non-distilling fabrication during Prohibition, and wartime industrial-alcohol work. Operating figures describe about 60 workers, around 20 summer maintenance workers, and a roughly ten-month delivery schedule at the time of reporting. The 90% craft-order statement concerns the order board, whereas 90% domestic refers to a separate business denominator; neither establishes present output or market share. The single reader comment is separate from the article.
One reader comment dated July 16, 2014
Article introduction and founding account
Article introduction and founding account; Prohibition and diversified fabrication; Mike Sherman interview: staffing, orders and custom work; One reader comment dated July 16, 2014
Source-faithful paraphrase only; not independent corroboration. Exact displayed publication date absent; URL path suggests July 2014 but is not an exact dateline. Company interview and retrospective history not independently documented here. Photographs credited to Kurt Maitland remain visually unreviewed.
No access / Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
Source-faithful paraphrase. Verified does not mean independently corroborated.
Evidence
Company history section attributes the 1904 founding to W. Elmore Sherman buying the Louisville branch; Mike Sherman says the origin of the Vendome name is unknown. The account describes Canadian orders and non-distilling fabrication during Prohibition, and wartime industrial-alcohol work. Operating figures describe about 60 workers, around 20 summer maintenance workers, and a roughly ten-month delivery schedule at the time of reporting. The 90% craft-order statement concerns the order board, whereas 90% domestic refers to a separate business denominator; neither establishes present output or market share. The single reader comment is separate from the article.
Location and context
No access. Article introduction and founding account; Prohibition and diversified fabrication; Mike Sherman interview: staffing, orders and custom work; One reader comment dated July 16, 2014.
Full written article reviewed; embedded evidence remains pending.
Annotation
Useful for linking the growth of distilling to specialist fabrication, maintenance labor and lead times rather than treating a still as a generic commodity. Quantities belong to this historical snapshot, not current supplier capacity.
Exact displayed publication date absent; URL path suggests July 2014 but is not an exact dateline. Company interview and retrospective history not independently documented here. Photographs credited to Kurt Maitland remain visually unreviewed.