Whisky Johnnie Walker 200th Anniversary The Celebration Blend 1805
The Johnnie Walker 200th Anniversary The Celebration Blend is an amber Scotch whisky crafted by Johnnie Walker, associated with the Highlands. This commemorative edition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the house and draws inspiration from Old Highland Whisky, its first commercialized blend in the 1860s. Bottled at 51%, this blended Scotch whisky brings together whiskies from distilleries already operating at that time, in a contemporary interpretation of this historical style.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Gift Box
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Amber
- Pays
- Ecosse
- Région
- Highlands
- Producteur / Domaine
- Johnnie Walker
- Cuvée
- 200th Anniversary The Celebration Blend
- Millésime
- 1805
Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker is a Scottish blended Scotch whisky brand born in Kilmarnock in 1820 and now owned by Diageo. Its cuvées are crafted by blending whiskies from various Scottish distilleries, under the responsibility of Master Blender Dr Emma Walker. The brand therefore does not correspond to a single estate with a vineyard area or an autonomous cellar comparable to those of a wine producer.
- Owner
- Diageo plc
- Maître de chais
- Dr Emma Walker
Histoire du domaine
The story begins in 1820, when John Walker opens a grocery store in Kilmarnock, Scotland, following the death of his father and the sale of the family farm. Faced with the inconsistency of the whiskies marketed at the time, he develops blends aimed at more consistent quality. Upon his death in 1857, his son Alexander Walker takes over the business and transforms it into a major commercial house; notably, he creates his first commercial blend, Old Highland Whisky. International expansion then accelerates to the point where Johnnie Walker is sold in more than 120 markets by 1920. In 1925, John Walker & Sons joins the Distillers Company Limited, a group that comes under the control of Guinness in 1986. The merger of Guinness with Grand Metropolitan gives birth to Diageo in 1997, the brand's current owner. After more than forty years of career at Diageo, including twenty as Master Blender, Dr Jim Beveridge retires at the end of 2021 and passes on the responsibility of Johnnie Walker blends to Dr Emma Walker, the first woman to officially hold this position in the house's history. She has since led a team of specialists responsible for composing the various expressions in the range from Diageo's reserves of Scottish whiskies.
200th Anniversary The Celebration Blend
The official name of this reference is "John Walker & Sons Celebratory Blend". This limited-edition Scotch whisky blend was created in 2020 for the 200th anniversary of Johnnie Walker. Inspired by the Old Highland Whisky commercialized in the 1860s, it brings together whiskies from distilleries already operating at that time.
- Origin of the cuvée name
- The official name "Celebratory Blend" designates a blend created to celebrate the bicentenary of Johnnie Walker, founded in 1820, and to toast the next 200 years.
- Cuvée creation year
- 2020
- Style of the cuvée
- A rich and complex blend, crafted as a contemporary evocation of the whiskies and aromas of the Walker grocery store in the 1860s.
- Position within the range
- Commemorative limited edition, one of the three whiskies created for the Johnnie Walker bicentenary in 2020.
Histoire de la cuvée
Announced in July 2020 among four exclusive bicentenary editions, the Celebratory Blend pays tribute to the launch of Old Highland Whisky in the 1860s, the house's first commercial blend distributed internationally. Its conception is also inspired by the aromas and flavors associated with the Walker family grocery store in Kilmarnock during this period.
