This is Meehan's stated preference and interpretive framework, not experimental evidence that distillation or aging eliminates geographic influence. Apprenticeship and institutional memory are useful researcher extensions, not a verbatim definition.
The idea frames bartenders and distillers as custodians who adapt tradition only after understanding it.
Meehan values cultural terroir—the production know-how passed between generations—over geographic terroir, while discussing supply pressure, climate change and the adaptation of inherited methods.
PDF sheet 209
PDF sheet 207
The Cocktail Canon — Cultural Terroir
October 1 fresh audit against the sequential 710-sheet text and individual-visual review. Canonical Source, Literature Note and existing relations retained. This is Meehan's stated preference and interpretive framework, not experimental evidence that distillation or aging eliminates geographic influence. Apprenticeship and institutional memory are useful researcher extensions, not a verbatim definition.
Evidence retained from the complete 710-sheet textual and visual review of Meehan's Bartender Manual.
Evidence
Meehan values cultural terroir—the production know-how passed between generations—over geographic terroir, while discussing supply pressure, climate change and the adaptation of inherited methods.
Location and context
Source section: The Cocktail Canon — Cultural Terroir
Locator: PDF sheets 207–209
The idea frames bartenders and distillers as custodians who adapt tradition only after understanding it.
Annotation
This is Meehan's stated preference and interpretive framework, not experimental evidence that distillation or aging eliminates geographic influence. Apprenticeship and institutional memory are useful researcher extensions, not a verbatim definition.