Johnnie Walker Red Label Bottled 1980's

Johnnie Walker Black Label 12 Year Old

It had been over 5 years since I allowed a Johnnie Walker Black Label to tinkle into my glass. It has a fair reputation, no? It contains quite a few malts, such as Glendullan, Mortlach, Lagavulin, Talisker and Caol Ila, upholstered with grain whisky from Cameronbridge. It is bottled as drinking strength. The nose starts off fruity (think peach and...

Score 81/100

Johnnie Walk Double Black

Johnnie Black is a standard fair and though its easy to be pretentious and stick with just top shelf single malts - this is a simple whiskey to be enjoyed with friends. The double black however has replaced my standard black on the shelf. It is delightfully smokey and very easy to drink.

Score 77/100

Johnnie Walker Red Label

Ah, Johnnie Walker Red, the whipping boy of scotch whisky reviewers the internet over. If you read enough reviews of this whisky you'd think that Diageo were bottling raw sewage and industrial waste decanted from 8th fill casks that once held dead kittens. However, interspersed among the litany of reviews slagging poor old JW Red are a few...

Score 72/100

Johnnie Walker Gold Label 18 Year Old

My wife bought me this sexy little whisky calender for Christmas. It came from Master of Malt and was a sample pack of 24 different whiskies, blends, bourbons, single malts, Islay, Highland, Speyside, Island whiskies. The whole range! I'd immediately gone through the few whiskies in the calender that I'd already tried and reviewed before, then I...

Score 87/100