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.
What’s in a barrel? (I mean that philosophically, of course, not literally—it’s whiskey, whiskey is what’s in the barrel.) Some distillers claim that as much as 80 percent of the flavor of any whiskey comes from the wood it’s aged in, although you certainly cannot dismiss the fact…

