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Quite nice and easy drinkable

Quick hit review. Thanks to peatbogger for this special 'treat' - I've been dodging Johnnie Walker Blue Label for years, but on the other hand there is nothing I would not review. A posh bottle for sure, but you buy the brand, not the whisky. A textbook blend nose awaits, with nothing standing out. Sweet apples, gentle spices and floral notes swim in an ocean of blandness. The silky arrival is led by ripe orchard fruits, honeydew melon and juicy oranges, and there are hints of smoke. It is quite sweet - and, wait for it: smooth! Candyfloss, caramel and a touch of marzipan shine through in the short to medium finish. I don't want to appear cruel, but this bottle is for golf clubs and rich pretenders with more money than sense. RATING: 3.4/5.0 stars ≙ 82 pts → ABOVE AVERAGE [-]

It does taste a little older but about 100% overpriced at least, not a patch on what they were doing 10 years ago.

Citrus, toffee, tobacco leaves, vanilla, some spices, bit of smoke quite balanced and fresh

A nice dram which won't offend, but I think the Black Label has a bit more about it, especially when you consider the price - worth a try, but wouldn't rush to buy a bottle, unless it's to sit looking pretty on the shelf.

[October, 2020] I had this dram during a local community tasting "blends only". In my old rating system (ten scales that translate into WB points: 50 - 66 - 75 - 80 - 82,5 - 85 - 87,5 - 90 - 92,5 - 95) I scored it 85. My notes state a balanced and flawless profile with much more peaty Caol Ila flavours than previous batches both in the nose and on the palate. Easy quaffable but way too expensive...

Actually, I'm not a JW fan, but this one already had something. Light, fruity and smoky note, very discreet, also soft, warm, round, slightly smoky, grape, raisins. I like it very much!

Light golden colour. Quite oily.

N- Mellow and refine candy sweet with mouthwatering pickled ginger and fresh young mango, rounded with touch of earthiness, caramel and coconut. P- Good weight and well balanced. Dose of caramel with soft dry peat. Waves of zesty citrus broke thru and brings charm to the palate, rich and complex. Stable and well mellow. F- Long and warming. Soothing yet holding all the best boldness from a very old blends. Pepper, creamy oak, sweet citrus and highland style peat lingers. — at The Whisky Bar, Kuala Lumpur.

Modest Johnnie Walker’s Blue Label is said to contain some very exclusive whisky, even some from closed distilleries. That should give us the feeling that it is indeed very old whisky, of course. How else can you ask between 125 and 175 EUR for a no age statement blend? Or am I too harsh now? Is there more going on than just packaging (in every sense of the word)? Let us find out. The nose is quite perfumy with a small sweetness, hints of fresh bread and some peat smoke. But so soft. Silky soft, in fact. So soft that it borders on becoming uninteresting. Fairly little fruit, actually. A leaf of mint. On the palate, it is wonderfully oily and offers a good mouthfeel from the get go. The sweetness now goes hand-in-hand with some baking spices, pepper, soft peat that develops a nice smokiness and finally some caramelized onions. Truly, this works! It has something wonderfully umami. The finish is spicy and smoky and fairly long. The nose was quite modest, but on the palate this is very good. I do not know how much Islay whisky has gone into this, but I am told that it even contains some Port Ellen. In my opinion, the Blue Label is surprisingly peaty, in which the Ileach easily overpower the Speysiders.

Nothing too special here. I didn't like the copper, but with time the nose did transform into something more enjoyable. Overall an average whisky.

An overwhelming cascade of rich flavors, an unparalleled tasting experience – wonderful, profound, each sip pushing the senses to their limit. Golden colour.

This was  a sample courtesy of lincolnimp.

- very good blended whiskey - significantly more smoke and more complex than the PLATINUM - noble but also strong, very aromatic - with about 120 € a very proud price (there are 18 year old single malts for the price that have a lot more to offer ...)

A very good NAS blend, unfortunately not cheap!

The test was judged on the basis of a miniature from an Advent calendar. Very weak Blend for a huge amount of money. I don't know why, but I bought a bottle. I wouldn't do it again.

This blend is quite ok, but nowhere near worth the price. I think the profile fits more into the price range of 40-50 euros

I like the better bottlings from Johnnie Walker as an all-day dram because you can find a few exciting aromas here and they are balanced blends that you can simply enjoy on the couch with their 40 or 43 percent without having to analyze them for a long time. This one is also one of them and is a very light and beautiful blend. The Green Label, which only contains single malts aged 15 and over, is a bit more intense in aroma, but not quite as elegant and soft as this one. But the Green Label costs only a quarter compared to the Blue Label. Anyone who likes such simple but good blends is well served with the Green Label for 35-45 euros (although I would then look for the old bottlings up to 2016, which have a slightly different label for the new bottling). I wouldn't spend the 140 euros for the Blue Label, but a bottle would be worth 60-70 euros to me.

Pleasant, slightly smoky whiskey. Easy to drink and leaves positive emotions.

83,50

Very tasty, albeit overpriced. I have to try it in cask strength! 82 points.

Ok, this is where opinions differ. Of all the bottles from this house, I personally shot myself at the 15. It fits me perfectly. But with the Blue Label the PLV is too distorted for me. Why so much money for an ordinary blend? My tip remains the No.15!

If this costs 90-100 euros, would say get one... at this price point nice to try, definitely good quality just little bit light... give us few ABV more :)

A lovely, luxurious whisky.

this one was really well balanced. the sweetness, the spices, even a hint of smoke was all packed together to a really nice package of whisky. sounds odd but I do understand the price tag for this one allthough I would not buy it as it is too smooth for me. I just prefer the single malts where I can find more peaks during a tasting.

http://www.weinkenner.de/2012/johnnie-walker-eine-schottische-whiskylegende-21172/ Color: Dark gold Nose: Fine, silky soft, spicy, herbs, sherry notes Taste: Sherry, sweetish peat, honey, delicately smoky, mint, spicy herbal notes, Finish: Not voluminous - but harmonious and long, delicately spicy and smoky Rating: The best filling from the series. A multi-layered blend harmoniously on the tongue without a false sound. No buy recommendation, since the price of about 130 euros is clearly way too high. 85 points

The benchmark for blended whisky

N- Light honey, malt, gentle oak, whisp of peat, slight sherry sweetness. P- Brine, smooth oak spice, white pepper F- Medium, oak and honey Blended wonderfully and multi faceted, designed to be elegant and appealing. Just overpriced

Nose and palate have something. The departure, however, is virtually absent.

Nose: Sweet fruit, some raisins, varnish, tropical Initial taste: soft and sweet. it develops nicely to some nuts and cacao. Body: very smooth, soft as silk Finish: medium actually too short for a whisky like this. a little mouth drying. Price: overpriced. Much overpriced. Presentation: very well done. Comment: I'm quite disappointed. It's a nice whisky true, but not worth the money.

Green apple, medicinal, apple jam, honey, woody, dark chocolate. The nose is fragrant and well-integrated, but the palate feels somewhat hollow. Perhaps Blue Label truly shines when served on the rocks. Still, the long finish of dark chocolate is exquisite.

Johnnie Walker Blue is easy to drink anytime. It is a fun drink that is soft but still has peat, and the peat can be felt strong but can also be bright.

chestnut sherry in color, oil movement in the glass, thick slow tears ....

Not a bad whisky at all but considering the price? There is absolutely nothing special or luxury with this one in my honest opinion. (Rating interval 80-83)

Can’t say I didn’t enjoy this one, but the crazy price for such a low ABV is ridiculous. Fruity sweet, caramised ginger, honey, vanilla and slight smoke. No harsh tones but everything seems so watered down as to reduce what could be a decent blend. No wow moments for

very tasty. I compared him to a black label from the 70's. Since the old Black Label is better. Good whiskey, but bad PLV, you pay the brand and the packaging.

Can not understand the sometimes bad grades for the Blue Label. Probably has something to do with bad reputation like Macallan and Glendfiddich. In my opinion, the blue label is a very good whiskey. The price is definitely too high, but the whiskey can't help it.

The price is a joke, as is the alcohol content, but the whisky is better and the smoke content is higher than my expectations.

A really brilliant blend. With a few more turns, he would have the makings to be a real sweeper in his class.

In my opinion the truth lies between Mosesumike's and MGHOW's review. Pricewise you're far better off with a Greenlabel. There seems to be a lot of Old Pulteney in the mix....?? Personally I don't like Old Pulteney much. The question remains: Why so much money?

A very tasty blend, but clearly too expensive.

A smooth and tender dram with a lot of well-rounded notes. Clynelish is absolutely dominant in this bottle.

I don't get the hype, there are many whiskies that are much cheaper and of much higher quality. Note: i will revisit this one in the future and update my review.

The owner of the bottle said that this is already 15 years open and once the cork in it already swam around. There was no smoke left. I suspect that this blend has already survived its best time and is slightly tilted. Will definitely try it again "fresh"

soft and good, nice scent.

Smooth velvety elegance: needs time in the glass to open up. Chill-filtered. Coloured. Thick slow primary legs. Mid-size slow secondary legs. Doesn’t hold water well. Needs higher ABV.

Nose:Citrus, wax, cloves, chamomile, delicate smoke in the Lagavulin style, forest fruits, herbal notes. Palate:Blueberries, pudding, caramel, roasted oranges, coffee with milk, marzipan chocolates. Finish: Lightly sparkling, juicy, delicately peppery, with notes of chocolate, roasted chestnuts, and sweetness.

Decent blend

Made perfect. I really like the individual components and are interwoven with each other in perfection. What the whiskey lacks is clear: power. The low alcohol strength does not make it possible to emphasize the aromas. So it seems a bit interchangeable, but in spite of everything makes enjoyment enjoyable. The much more expensive "Casks Edition" in cask strength has seen the potential for a real grenade ...

84 honey Weak fit soft mouthfeel, slightly spicy, but not too much, good balance, quite heavy for 40 degrees and has a finish

A soft and medium sweet whisky with a good amount of smoke

Great dram for sure. Lovely balance and complexity. However, the price/quality ratio is totally off in my opinion.

Honied apple, ginger, caramel, butter, quite light and a bit too soft for me.

2018.09.30

This is the best Johnnie Walker nose out of the core range and can understand why people enjoy this. Nice and easy going, I do detect older whisky in the mix. Happily take as a gift.

Very pleasant sweetness with bitter chocolate and honey. Some dried fruit, delicate peat smoke. (Caol lla or Mortlach?)

Body: dense, oily. Colour: light golden. Nose: Quite rich, heavy, shifted to a woody-spicy side. Earthy-peaty tones, medical bandages with iodine, orange peel, yellow soaked apples, apple strudel with cinnamon, burnt marshmallow (marshmallow), vanilla marshmallow, caramel "cockerel on a stick", heather honey, chocolates "drunk cherry", raisins, prunes, hazelnuts, sandalwood, nutmeg, ground black pepper, fire ash. Taste: quite soft, light, rich, but not too dense and slightly monotonous. At first, it is sweet-creamy with hints of honey, raisins, vanilla marshmallow and cream, through the bitterness of ginger and orange peel, it turns into rich nutty shades of hazelnuts, dark chocolate and sourness of prunes. Burnt embers and ground black pepper act as a background almost all the time. Finish: slightly below average (some kind of trouble with blended whiskeys with this parameter, even the most premium ones, as I see it). Hazelnuts, dark chocolate with orange marmalade, prunes. As a result, we can say that the whiskey is certainly interesting, it has an attractive and rather complex, although somewhat closed aromatic profile, a rounded taste and a slightly poor aftertaste, but, IMHO, there is a whiskey of the same level or even much better quality for significantly smaller coins. Take only if at discounts or at tastings for informational purposes.

first nose mash with orange grain light salt may smoke... dry nut tastes like coffee/chocolate honey, oak, grain. Well, weak for a lens hood of this price. 83 with water maybe rose heselnut oak dry tobacco? Coffee stood on the nose, sourness, perhaps rose, grain, something like a Spanish type sausage with mold? (on the nose). Does the chocolate grain of this rose taste better? Coffee? And even a little pear/fig taste, a little spice maybe oak. After retest 86!

Aroma - citruses are felt, though it’s hard to make out which ones, then peat and the smell of an old honeycomb with a slight sourness come in, you get a thick aroma, you don’t feel alcoholic, nothing special in the aroma, it’s delicious but very simple Taste - peat, sweetness and pungency of cayenne pepper are immediately felt - but quickly replaced by the light taste of old honey and the orbit of a bubblemint) during the first dram, with each swallow a little numbness of the mouth was felt, as after anesthesia by a dentist. Whiskey is not alcoholic, very strong, you can drink it like compote, in large sips. The finish is short, peat, wax, and the same bubblemint orbits. The whiskey is delicious, uncomplicated, age-related spirits are felt, but something is missing, for such a price you are waiting for something stunning and memorable, now I understand why it has such a low rating on the WB, I think the rating of 83 points is very fair for such a drink.

Pours a clear gold. Scent is very mildly peated, intense malty. Taste is full, damn easy to drink. Minor peaty touch. Full grainy profile. Oaky. long finish. Mild vaniline. Happy to have tried it, but obviously overhyped.

The nose is rather subtle with some sweetness and fruitiness (orange?). In the mouth the Blue Label is very pleasant and really "round". The sweetness is retained in the taste, but more malt is added. The medium-long finish is then again sweet and fresh. Overall, an absolutely balanced blend without corners and edges - positive as well as negative.

A lucky moment with this bottle

Nice but what many say and give them the same "too expensive for what you get".

It might be a bit disappointing if you're looking for a more robust stimulus or a new flavor to explore, but I think it's amazing that they've created such a balance of flavors.

Received a 200ml bottle as a birthday gift. No new revelations here - it's delicious, well-balanced, easy to drink, short on the finish, and extremely overpriced.

It's so smooth it doesn't feel like wine, but it's a bit boring to drink, with smoke and light peat dominating the flavors.

Nose is probably the best part: fills the room. Soft, smooth, well balanced, complex. Probably better without adding water.

WOW! I am astonished at what they have done to Johnnie Walker Blue Label. I am only glad I have an old bottle from ten years ago, the new stuff is garbage and an overpriced rip off. Genuinely astonished, Blue Label hadn't changed for years, then suddenly it become a thin, weak, flavourless whisky drink which seems to allow thick tasteless grain whisky to dominate. This is the last bottle of Blue Label I ever buy. Shame on Diageo. They will pay for it in the end though when noone buys Johnnie Walker because they simply understand that the product is no good anymore.

This one from Walker is very complex with a lot of taste. Also found it very dry in the aftertaste.

Hello I am very disappointed with the finish for the price. Like many others, I expected something different. First sip was good. After that he disappointed me very much.

A very fine whiskey in the nose and in the mouth, but also relatively boring. I have struggled to discover special flavors here. He is very round and mild, in the mouth he does not burn a bit, here are 40% Alk. Simply too little. The finish is gone very fast. Tasty for a Johnnie Walker, but for the price there are hundreds of better (single) malts.

At first, it comes with apple. But after some minutes turns with sugared water, peat. I can feel also peaty at taste but there are lots of taste. vanilla, spice, butter. Nice blending.

Alcohol is hardly noticeable, caramel and maybe a slightly mixture of nuts and lentils. Nice correct, but the taste is not much, caramel, slightly lemon. Perfectly hidden alcohol

I gave it 86 out of 100, nice on the nose, complex on the pallet and finishing is a bit disappointing. Price also was considered. Too expansive in my opinion. Great whisky overall.

I don’t know why so many people keep paying so much for a 40% blended whisky with colour added and chillfiltered. I mean is not bad, but wouldn’t pay more than €50 for it. It’s a mass marketing product. Glad I only got a sample.

A higher abv would really benefit this whisky, considering how good this is at 40%abv. The aroma and taste is great. The one flaw is the lack of abv to bring the full impact and body/viscocity.

very well balanced

I felt like I was drinking roasted chocolate. Beautiful. But, of course, way overpriced. That being said, everyone should try a bottle as some point in their lives; my suggestion would be to get a hold of the JW 4-pack, which has the 300 ml bottles of Black, Green, Gold/Plat and Blue. Probably the best value.

Too expensive

Perfectly decent and "smooth" with a little bit of smoke. But not all that much more. Would be a perfectly nice whisky if not for the ridiculous price.

Can't say that it's too bad, but it lacks aroma and smell. Definitely not worth its price and compared to other good whiskies I have, I'm having it hard to calling this a proper whisky. Not recommended