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.
I’ve written about celebrity-backed booze brands before, and most of the time that meant tequila. It’s just the easiest spirit for this type of partnership—there are so many established distilleries already making a ton of different brands, so why not just slap a well-known name on the…

