{"id":23243,"date":"2017-04-25T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=23243"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:32:09","slug":"johnnie-walker-blenders-batch-comes-duty-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/johnnie-walker-blenders-batch-comes-duty-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnnie Walker Blenders’ Batch comes to duty-free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnnie Walker has launched Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch Bourbon Cask & Rye Finish, an innovative new addition to its series of experimental whiskies: Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch. A limited edition, the new blended Scotch is only available in a small number of selected markets including travel retail & duty-free stores.<\/p>\n


\nA bold experiment in flavour, Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch Bourbon Cask & Rye Finish has been drawn from over 200 whisky samples, aged in first-fill bourbon casks and finished for up to six months in former rye casks. Featuring whiskies from just five distilleries including Dufftown and the now closed Port Dundas, it\u2019s a rich and warming Scotch Whisky with an intense honeyed sweetness.<\/p>\n

This limited edition whisky is part of the experimental Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch portfolio (see previous\u00a0story<\/a>) , a series of limited edition Scotch Whiskies created as a result of hundreds of ongoing flavour experiments carried out by a small team of expert blenders at the brand\u2019s home in Scotland.<\/p>\n

The Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch range lifts the lid on the skill and never-ending pursuit of flavour that drives the blending team, led by master blender Dr Jim Beveridge, a man whose personal journey making whisky began over 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch Bourbon Cask & Rye Finish is inspired by the time Beveridge spent blending bourbons and ryes in Kentucky in the 1990s. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cBlended from just a handful of Single malts and carefully chosen grain whiskies matured in first fill bourbon casks and finished in casks that formerly held rye whisky – Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch Bourbon Cask and Rye Finish is a rich, sweet, intensely honeyed and smooth Scotch Whisky, with the warming vanilla spiciness usually associated with the iconic Johnnie Walker Black Label. To my mind, it’s the best of Scotch but with an exciting twist inspired by the best of traditional American whiskey flavours.\u201d<\/p>\n

The blenders at Johnnie Walker think \u2018from the bar back\u2019 when making whisky, ensuring bartenders and whisky fans at home have the perfect liquids at hand to serve neat, on the rocks, or as the foundation of a flawless Scotch-based cocktail.<\/p>\n

The limited edition Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch Bourbon Cask & Rye Finish is the second release from the Blenders\u2019 Batch series, inspired by the recent success of Johnnie Walker Select Casks \u2013 Rye Cask Finish. It is available now in selected travel retail outlets globally, retailing at $52.50\/\u00a332.00 RRSP for a 1L bottle.<\/p>\n

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Johnnie Walker has launched Johnnie Walker Blenders\u2019 Batch Bourbon Cask & Rye Finish, an innovative new addition to its series of experimental whiskies: Johnnie Walker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2597,1,7099,7097],"tags":[721,69,39,226,4388,49,103],"class_list":["post-23243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-selling-brands-in-duty-free","category-latest-news","category-spirits","category-wines-spirits","tag-duty-free-shopping","tag-duty-free","tag-dutyfree","tag-johnnie-walker","tag-johnnie-walker-blenders-batch-bourbon-cask-rye-finish","tag-scotch","tag-whisky"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}