I hope you'll all enjoy a special dram tonight, to celebrate Johnnie Walker's 200th - an Ayrshirian lad born and bred.
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18 years ago
I hope you'll all enjoy a special dram tonight, to celebrate Johnnie Walker's 200th - an Ayrshirian lad born and bred.
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.
200 years......and still going strong.
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
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