Benji-Robert
John Walker & Sons Celebratory Blend
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed
January 7, 2022 (edited February 12, 2022)
Drink 1/4, then put it in a dark closet. Come back in two weeks, and savor the gobsmacking peat which has become easier, lighter, and better integrated with the sweet.
Bought this on clearance on a whim and each time I came back for a sip it was juuust a bit better but it never started above strong 3.5 3.75 so that isn't saying a ton.
If you enjoy "scotch" as a broad category I can say you'll like this but it isn't anything crazy special. Just delicious poured small neat, all by itself, sipped slow. Water doesn't marr it, but doesn't do much for me.
Easily worth $50/60 out the door USD depending on your state and love of JW products. The box is really cool to look at. Nice neat sipper, sweet cereal backbone @cascode says accurately reminds you of grand old parr.
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mmmm sounds tasty. $75 in my area though
Looking forward to opening my bottle of this. Consensus seems to have landed prettt squarely that it’s universally liked, just unique enough to notice, but closer to good than to great at the price (esp with the eponymous JW Green hanging around $15 cheaper).
the classic JW feeling is there (charred honeycomb/ sweeter peat) but it's smoother than a baby's butt and really easy drinking for a 100 proofer. it's not a flavor bomb is the real sore point here, and at the price that is sad. get such a beautiful balance from the dram itself between sweet white fruit and tantalizing peat. Some age and refinement and this would've been a sellout, but as an experiment to make something from an older, "simpler" time, I say it easily succeeded.