White Horse or Johnny Walker Red

JW Red. If you think 'average (but drinkable) blend' then you'll be ok. White Horse I (perhaps unjustifiably) put into the 'spoon cleaning' class.

Besides - my great uncle was the head cooper for JW in Kilmarnock before WWII so it's sort of the family brand :-)

Jim

Cheers. I had a memory that one of the blends - and I thought it was White Horse - had a good proportion of good malts but it was probably something else.

White horse has somewhat of a smokey taste, more so than JW Red. Otherwise both are good everyday drinks.

But "never look a gift horse in the mouth", so the White Horse wins.....

I'd take the White Horse because I've never run into it, while JW Red is everywhere.

I have read that White Horse *used to* have a good dollop of Lagavulin in it, but not so much now.

On 2007-11-11, RD (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Everyday drinks? You mean this Ardbeg 10yo is not an everyday drink?

Damn, that's where I've been going wrong.

The Ardbeg 10 is three to four times the price of JW Red, where I live. I think those of us who keep "every day" drinks around that are not single malts often do it for budgetary reasons.

White Horse must be really bad. I use JW Red as my cooking whisky.

I must confess that it's been so long since I tried WH that my opinions of it probably don't count, but I found JW Re to be ok. Not a patch on Black, but not actually bad.

Jim

"If it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with".

Agreed. It's good enough to drink, as is Clan MacGregor, my other cooking whisky. I use Jack Daniels to light my charcoal for the BBQ!

White horse used to boast on the label it was lagavulin based. When I say used to, it was some years since I looked. I quite enjoyed the bottle I recieved as a gift back then.

Uzytkownik "uknewsfan" napisal:

And the other way round too. Some time ago there was a sign on the main distillery building at Lagavulin, saying, "The House of White Horse", or something to the same effect. It has disappeared since my first visit there though. That was the reason why, if I had to limit myself to a blend, I would go for White Horse. I liked to imagine there was some of my favourite Lagavulin in it.

Cheers, Rajmund