Johnnie Walker Diageo Hill Street 50th Anniversary

Johnnie Walker Gold Label 18 Year Old

Nose: sweet, floral, fruity, smooth Taste: this is very sweet and very smooth immediately. There is moderate pleasant peat, with wine flavours also present and more noticeable after a few seconds. On the palate this is a delicious and elegant dram. Finish: rather long with some sherry and peat remaining until the very end. Balance: this is a very...

Score 90/100

Johnnie Walker Special Casks

The Johnnie Walker lineup used to be nice and tidy and easy to follow. As a whisky drinker, I felt obligated to include all the colors of the Johnnie rainbow in my cabinet. Not because I kneel at the altar of Diageo or even because any among the JW ranks dazzled me (although I’m quite fond of Green and Swing). If you’re a numismatist, you need a...

Score 90/100

Johnnie Walker Black Label 12 (1980's)

This is a 35cl bottle from the late 80's, bottled for the 500th anniversary of Scotch Whisky and was an Italian import. I picked this up at auction and it came in a larger pack with an information booklet (all in Italian - Non parlo italiano) and a full size bottle. I suspect the contents may have changed over the years. I will attach an image...

Score 80/100

Johnnie Walker Red Label

Note: this was bottled in 1966! Let us not laugh too hard with Johnnie Walker Red Label. After all, it is still the best selling whisky in the world. While this blend has been on the market very, very long, it was not until 1909 that it was given the red label and the famous Striding Man was added to the logo. I sometimes joke that this is the...

Score 84/100