Welcome to Taste Test, where every week our critic Jonah Flicker explores the most buzzworthy and interesting whiskeys in the world. Check back each Sunday for his latest whiskey review.
Perhaps you’re one of those people who thinks all scotch whisky is smoky (it’s not, only a very small percentage is actually peated). Or maybe you’re a whisky drinker who thinks you don’t like smoky whisky at all—that’s a fair point, some of it is really intense and can be hard to…

