I still don't see what that has to do with what I see as your thesis: Your "sophisticated drinks" are an ad-man's creation. I pointed out US whiskey because th

I still don't see what that has to do with what I see as your thesis: Your "sophisticated drinks" are an ad-man's creation. I pointed out US whiskey because the circumstances of its existence were not manipulated by marketers, but was the "natural" consequence of the limitations of the time. Further, that fits in with whiskey throughout the Western world, so the US is not unusual.