Where Palm Beach Sips It Neat and Naples Asks What "Peated" Means

Scotch drinkers along our stretch of coast already know the name, and they know what's coming: a new vintage in an annual series built entirely around how much smoke a whisky can carry before it stops being balanced. The distillery keeps making the case that intensity and complexity aren't opposites — that a dram can hit hard with peat and still reward the slow sip after. It's the kind of release that gets passed around quietly at the better bars from West Palm to Fifth Avenue South, less showy than a big anniversary bottling, more interesting to the people who actually finish their glass.

With reporting from Robb Report.