Shows that selection and blending can be creative production roles, but the legitimacy of the claim depends on disclosing those roles and the liquid's provenance.
The case is Breaking & Entering Bourbon and continues through PDF sheet 106.
St. George bought barrels from multiple Kentucky sources, blended them into a product those distilleries would not have assembled themselves, and used name and label language to state that it blended rather than distilled the bourbon.
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Chapter 6 — St. George Spirits
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