Contextual support for single-barrel product identity and selected small-batch assembly; exact priority language should be corroborated before publication.
The passage places single-barrel and small-batch releases in a late-twentieth-century premiumization sequence.
Minnick identifies Blanton's as the first commercially available modern single-barrel bourbon in 1984 and Booker's as a key popularizer of small-batch bourbon in 1988 through mingling selected high-quality barrels.
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Modern premium bourbon history
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