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.
If something’s better than you expected it to be, does that make it good? I am sometimes confronted with that question when reviewing a whiskey, especially one that I anticipate will taste a certain way based on factors like the types of barrels used for maturation. So when I got a sample of…

