Rabbie Burns Cocktail

Burns night, January 25, is the perfect opportunity to consider Scotch’s tremendous variety, from mellow and gentle to vegetal and even barnyardy, and up through to the big, peaty, smoky numbers that many people think of first when they think Scotch. While the evening highlights whisky served neat — but with a pitcher of water alongside it, which often helps to open up its flavors — there’s no reason not to kick the festivities off with a Rabbie Burns cocktail, which adds vermouth, Bénédictine and a bit of citrus.