EditorialA bottle of Casa Dragones tequila, aged in Mizunara casks that are made from 200-year-old trees found in Hokkaido, Japan, and traditionally used for Japanese whiskey and other brown spirits, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Aug. 11, 2022. (Koral Carballo/The New York Times)
EditorialCasks of whiskey at the Highland Park distillery on the outskirts of Kirkwall, Scotland, on April 23, 2021. It is the northernmost distillery in the United Kingdom and has been in operation since 1798. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)