What is the difference between Johnny Walker Red, Green, Black, Blue?

Question

Why is Blue way more expensive then the others? Is their a difference in taste? is it aged longer? what?

Answer 1

Green Label is known as a pure malt. It is a blend of only malt whiskies.

Malt and Grain Whiskies go through different types of distillation process, grain whisky in a single still process which is relatively industrial and malt whisky through a traditional pot still double distilation process (takes far longer to produce)

The different blends have different minimum ages for the malt whisky within the blend.

Answer re Blue Label from another of my posts:
Johnnie (note spelling) Walker Blue contains a blend of several malt and grain whisky (note spelling again...means it is produced and matured in Scotland) all of which (malts) are AT LEAST 25 years old. These are blended at the end of their individual maturation periods.

There is a higher proportion of malt whisky to grain whisky than most other blends.

Older whiskies tend to be more expensive than younger whiskies as they have to be stored longer and suffer increased evapouration from the oak cask (known as the angels share). Incidently dont bother keeping whisky in the bottle and hoping it will age it wil not, it will get covered in dust, whisky only ages in the cask. Older whiskies tend to take a woody taste.

Blended whiskies are watered down to reach their bottling strength, typically around 40%, this is simply because cask stregth whisky tends to be too strong for most palates.

Johnnie Walker Blue os very nice but outrageously expensive for what it is. If you want to experience really good whiskies start exploring the great range of tastes of single malt whiskies. You could perhaps try to find Cardhu first as thuis is the main malt whisky in all of the Johnnie Walker blends. Then try some of the regional tastes; Diageos Classic Malts are designed to show these regional flavours:

Glenkinchie: Lowland Malt, soft grassy
Dalwhinnie: Highland Malt, soft, honey and heather
Cragganmore: Speyside Malt
Oban: West Highlands Malt (my favorite of the 6)
Lagavulin: Islay Malt, heavy peat flavour
Talisker: Skye Malt, peaty, seaweed taste

Also try to taste an ex sherry casked malt

Enjoy!!!

Answer 2

Johnny Walker Red

Answer 3

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RE:
What is the difference between Johnny Walker Red, Green, Black, Blue?
Why is Blue way more expensive then the others? Is their a difference in taste? is it aged longer? what?

Answer 4

Johnny Green Label

Answer 5

The black is a blend of whiskeys at the average 12 years in age, the red is a blend of 6 year whiskers in the average. For your information blue is 25 years. Don't thing its worth paying the extra, have blind tasted them and difference is not that great in a blended whiskey. Single malts a totally different story since they are one whiskey matured the time on the label, unfortunately also more expensive.

Answer 6

Red- acceptable for some occasions, but black is almost always okay to serve. Blue is very expensive, and for that kind of money, there are better blended scotches out there.
Not familar w/Green lable, usually drink Black. Oddly, JW is about the only blended scotch I like to drink, actually prefer JW Black to "better" single malts....

Answer 7

www.johnniewalker.com is their web site and there they explain the differences in the scotch. The major items are the way it's processed, how long it's aged gold - 18 years red -lighter and more for everyday drinking. black : complex and made of up to 40 different malts Green: a single malt scotch ( very expensive) and Blue: a very rare scotch made from master blenders.
Im a bartender and I learned alot researching this for you. thanks..

Answer 8

jonny red known as jonny reb is 4 yrs or less personally its good for cleaning the fllor of the kitchen next to cooking with it,jay/black is 12 yrs old famous as monroe or gable accepted from the japanese to the mongols jay/blu is 25 by the way dont forget granny blue thats his wife....................

Answer 9

It's based upn age and taste. So, drink whatever version you like as long as it meets your taste bud needs.