Does age matter?

I’m the first whiskey writer to complain when a bourbon drops an age statement. Just ask Heaven Hill, Jim Beam, Buffalo Trace, and others who endured my public and private whining. Once, while waiting in line at the Louisville airport, I told a distillery executive that they didn’t need to discontinue age statements if they stopped making flavored whiskey, my other favorite thing to hate in American whiskey.

Lifelong horse racing fan Matt Dinerman was named Emerald Downs' track announcer in 2015 at age 22, at the time the youngest announcer in the country. The San Diego native now works as the announcer at Golden Gate Fields near San Francisco, where he also provides pre-race insight and analysis. Get to know him and his thoughts on racing and life in this fun Q&A.