Johnnie Walker Green Label 15 Year

Nose - Sweet lightly smoky barrel aged pear cider, salt & black pepper, hint of sandalwood/cedar wood funk. Taste - Sweet spicy oak, lightly smoky pear cider w/ hints of salt, black pepper, hint of dried apricot, baking spices, light leather. Finish - Lingering black pepper & sea salt, light fruity smoke, light ashy fruit, hint of lightly off putting metallic. Score - 85/100 Final Thoughts - This is a nice non-offensive very lightly peated blended malt. Nothing overly complex about it but it's great to sip on and I could see this being used to mix some cocktails as well as it has a nice salty lightly smoky quality that would go quite well in cocktails. Not to mention the price is quite good for a 15 year blended malt. Probably best neat, but I could see this doing pretty well in a highball with a squeeze of lemon or in a whisky ginger. Would I drink it if offered? - Yes Would I specifically order it? - Only if there wasn't anything else I wanted to try on the menu Would I buy a bottle? - Yes

This re-introduced version of Green is definitely not as smoky as the original. But it is still excellent. In order to elevate this blend to it's original glory, I add 20% Lagavulin 16. Lovely, indeed.

Transferred from Barreled App: Here's to the final Johnnie Walker core range, blended whisky that I need to try to complete the catalog. The Green Label is a blend of 15 year old malts and comes in at 86 proof. Thanks again to Paul for this generous sample (I've sworn off of JW blends at this point as I think they are almost all subpar and too similar to warrant chasing them all). The nose here is heavily chocolate influenced with a bit of peppery oak cask. There's some faint smoke to help round things out, as well. The palate is thin and after an initial mocha creaminess is overpowered with oak spice. Too much spice. It sort of wrecks the finish by carrying over into it, while washing away pretty quickly. I guess that should be considered a good thing, but for some reason it isn't. I hate sounding like I'm flip-flopping with my expectations but this feels like what's happening. It doesn't seem like a typical JW, and that is a small plus to me. While I don't think I'd want an entire bottle of this, it is better than most other JW blends I've had. If I had to rank my top 3 it would be: JW Double Black, Rye Cask Select, and this Green Label. There, I'm done with you Johnnie. Moving on.... PS- A big thanks to @Generously_Paul for the ability to review and add this to my whisky total. Cheers.