Johnnie Walker Black, Green and Gold

It's diiferent kind of blends. Heres my opinion. Each malt is something like a factor 2 or 3 more expensive than the one before

Red : cheapest - best for Irish coffee. Black : A god blend. You can drink it neat Gold : A really good and powerful blend. Well worth its price. Blue . Luxury Blend. It's good, but for this kind of money you can get better value i single malts

Green : A blended malt.

Steffen

Steffen, "...a blended malt." Isn't that an oxymoron? I'd think that a blend of malts means that this is a blended whisky. No?

A blended whisky contains grain whisky. A blended malt is a description of "vatted" (or "pure") malt, meaning that there is *only* malt whisky in the bottle. It can't be called single malt whisky, since it's from different distilleries.

Marjon

FWIW, my own order of preference is currently Blue, Green, Black.......Gold. Red isn't even on my radar ;o)

Johanna

SWA has just decided a naming policy and what was most known as vatted malt is now going to be called blended malt...

Steffen

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We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors but they all have to learn to live in the same box.

I didn't know that. Do you have a link pointing to this information? I can't find it on the SWA website,

Thanks, Marjon

try this link

Steffen

The new Green isn't the same as the old one that was called "Pure Malt" which was a bit tripeish if you ask me. This Green is dee-lish, a great session malt which shows what you can do when you put some TLC into a vatted.

Johanna Single Minded, A Single Malt Whisky Journal

Me also. Much thanks to all. JW Green is on my list to try.

SDS

Can you be more specific? I used to pick up Green at Duty Free because it was cool and you couldn't get it in the States. But in my heart-of-hearts I felt that plain ol' Black was a better dram. There's no reference anywhere, and there's not likely to be so, of any reformulation. Can you compare tasting notes of Green with Black?

Peter