Johnnie Walker 1930-2010

6 Walkers in time from around 1930 till 2010

How blends changed in time ~1930-2010

Advert from 1940

Advert 1974

Blended Whiskies were not my choice
Until someone gave me a old blend from around 1970. What a difference from the blends I knew from today. How is that the labels are almost the same the look of the bottle is the same???
Well that is a long story a number of elements are cause of  this huge difference between the taste of a 1970 old blend or a blend from today.

The best example I saw was from Ralfy-scotch whisky review 145 a Johnnie Walker review.

We have tasted many old blends and one of the most suprising ones was an old Ballantines (prohibition) area. What an increadible nose smokey black cloudy whisky. Nothing to do with the
Ballantines from today. An even bigger surprise was the Johnnie Walker Black Label from1958 (bottled). So most of the whisky had to be distilled 12 years earlier.
The old Johnnie Walker was complex, soft with a great nose. A really GREAT one. We searched for more Johnnie Walkers and found a bottle from around 1930 JW red label.

As it seams we got a Nosing & Tasting set that is one of a kind. I don’t think we will ever find an other JW bottle from around 1930.

Know you can experience how one brand in time changes. It is not only Johnnie Walker but all brands changed. With the single malts (SC) prices go to extreme hights. With the old blends you could get lucky and get a GREAT bottle of whisky for a good (low) price.

It’s all about Quality what went in the bottle is not better or worse even when it is 80 years later.

Maybe even a little bit better (mariage of the whisky)

Take your time the whisky certainly did.

Often it is hard to determine the age of a bottle (the black label bottle from the US TAX seal with date was on the bottle) other indications are how a bottle is closed or information on the bottom of the bottle.

CB – Stands for Clevenger Brothers, glassblowers also from New Jersey who produced high-quality reproduction glass. Owens bottle ring- During the period of 1890 to 1910, Micheal Owens developed automated methods for opening and closing bottle molds which led to mass production of glass and bottles. A distinctive characteristic of wares made by this method is a thin embossed circle on the base of the bottle, usually found with numbers and other marks indicating year of manufacture, mold number, etc. Bottles with such markings date from approximately 1910 to 1960CB – Stands for Clevenger Brothers, glassblowers also from New Jersey who produced high-quality reproduction glass. Owens bottle ring- During the period of 1890 to 1910, Micheal Owens developed automated methods for opening and closing bottle molds which led to mass production of glass and bottles. A distinctive characteristic of wares made by this method is a thin embossed circle on the base of the bottle, usually found with numbers and other marks indicating year of manufacture, mold number, etc. Bottles with such markings date from approximately 1910 to 1960.

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