Treat authenticity language as positioning as well as production description; compare rhetoric with actual sourcing and ownership.
The passage follows discussion of connoisseurship, cask strength, luxury bottles, auctions, and collecting.
Kosar places the rise of whiskey microdistilling within a purist backlash against polished mass-market products, noting producers' emphasis on small scale, locally grown or organic grain, pot stills, and 'old world' craftsmanship.
p. 125 (PDF sheet 127)
p. 125 (PDF sheet 127)
Adoration and Worship
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