[Data-modeling] Tweaks to the food domain

John Giannandrea jg at metaweb.com
Thu Jun 12 05:48:44 UTC 2008


Id suggest that the whisky is the brand and if its a blend it may or  
may not list some of the contributing distilleries.
whisky as a food or beverage will presumably acquire manufacturer or  
distributer properties from elsewhere.
-jg

Tom Morris wrote:
> I think the separation is useful, but are we talking about
> distilleries or companies or brands.  Leaving aside for a minute the
> fact that purists might not consider blended "whisky" to be whiskys at
> all, have a look at http://www.scotlandwhisky.com/about/brands.  The
> Johnnie Walker brand's "spiritual home" is the Cardhu distillery, but
> Ballantine has no identifiable distillery associated with it.  Neither
> of them actually distill any spirits.


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