Why is “older” whiskey generally considered better than “newer” whiskey? And does this apply to all alcohol?
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You’ve made a logic error. Older whisky isn’t better. Longer aged whisky is better. The bottle of 15 year scotch you got 10 years ago is still 15 year old scotch because it spent 15 years in an oak barrel. Once it’s out of the barrel it’s done aging.
Older isn’t better. Most aged alcohol would follow this same formula. Some liquors are doing cool things now with aging things in used barrels. So making a brandy but aging it in a port wine barrel, other are using whisky barrels for stout, then using the stout barrels for more whisky.
Wines are weirder, some years the weather makes better grapes which makes the wine a bit different. Certain years of wine are better than others.
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