Johnnie Walker tonight

Every dram I drink is a special dram, but never Johnny Walker

Roger

Well same here, although I heard that the Green and Blue Labels are quite fine for Blended whiskies.

Any opinions around ??

I think I have a bottle of JW (Red or Black) that my bairns gave me. It's around somewhere.

The JW Black is quite a nice blend, with some obvious island content.

The Green is labelled as a blended malt, which is what we usually call a vatted malt -- it's a number of single malts blended together but with no grain whisky. I have a bottle open at the moment and it's very pleasant.

The Blue (and I think there's at least one more up the scale -- Gold?) I've never tasted. Its price point where I live is equivalent to, say, two bottles of Talisker or Laphroaig and I'm not a wealthy man.

I will drink the Red with ice and water when I want a blend with ice and water. Neat, it's a little too rough and fiery. But chilled and diluted a little more than I'd do to a malt, it has a nice kick.

I'll have a bit of the Black tonight, I think.

cheers.

bill

Lots of opinions around ;-) The black is okay, but I prefer Teachers for cheap blends, plus it's even cheaper than JW black. The blue I do like, but it's very weak and almost as expensive as it is weak. They might say, "delicate," but so is the low mineral content in Evian.

John

The red label is a cheap blend and nothing to a malt whiksy drinker I will reckon

The Black is a bit more expensive but much better and I can drink it neat no problem

The green is a vatted malt 15y

The Blue is a very expensive luxury malt, and whisky that age should be served at cask strength, so I agree on the term "weak"

This leaves out gold which I find the most exciting JW. Its 18y but a bit expensive compared to malts. But I really enjoy it

MAcDeffe