Journal

Five Bourbons Built to Last

Bourbon writing spends most of its column inches on taste, and almost none on the thing itself: the proof on the label, the barrel that shaped it, the warehouse it sat in for a decade. That is a strange omission for a spirit this legally regulated and this honestly labeled. A bottle of bourbon tells you, by law, what is in it. Few categories make that information so easy to check and so rarely checked.