Retain only the qualitative barrel–warehouse–climate mechanism. The legal claim and county-level conclusion are not operationalized.
The source uses maturation-place sensitivity to justify a position in a dated legal and industry dispute.
Within a Tennessee-whiskey industry dispute, Hacker argues that maturation location matters because barrels interact with climate, temperature, humidity, and rickhouse microclimate; producers may relocate barrels in response to those internal differences.
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Tennessee Whiskey—It’s Not a Bourbon
Legacy partial local sheet 33 is retained for citation stability; the same passage was cross-verified in the complete 808-sheet edition at local sheet 367 on 2026-08-28.
Verified paraphrase from one canonical Source.
Evidence
Maturation place and rickhouse microclimate shape identity arguments; full paraphrase is stored in Excerpt Text.
Location and context
Local PDF sheet 33, Tennessee-whiskey chapter.
Annotation
Retain only the qualitative barrel–warehouse–climate mechanism; exclude the legal conclusion.