Tom Downey writes for a variety of publications including WSJ. Magazine, Afar, Smithsonian, The New York Times and many others. Downey studied English Literature at Princeton University, spent a semester abroad at the American University in Cairo, and taught filmmaking at a film school in Singapore. He lives in New York.

Spirits Are Dead. Long Live Flavor.
Distillers are increasingly looking beyond the confines of spirit categories in search of something more postmodern—and elusive.
- story: Tom Downey
- photo: Lizzie Munro