Gold Label Reserve Hensman Grill And Bar

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Gold Label Reserve marks the entry into what could be considered the premium releases of the Johnnie Walker Label series. 

Not to be confused with the previously available and now discontinued 18-year-old Gold Label Centenary Blend, the current incarnation of Gold Label features no age statement.

Diageo offers this release as Johnnie Walker’s Master Blender’s Reserve as well as naming it their Celebration Blend. 

Accompanying literature on the carton housing the bottle names Clynelish as a single malt featured in the dram. 

Additional details are elusive, as is normal with most blends.

The official Johnnie Walker website points towards cream, smoke, and sweetness being key attributes of the Gold Label Reserve flavor profile. 

Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve is bottled at 40% ABV (80 proof) and is available around the mid-to-high $80 price range per 750 ml bottle.

Tasting Notes: Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve

Vital Stats: 40% ABV, no age statement, blended Scotch whisky, $85-90 per 750 ml bottle.

Appearance: Honey and amber tones, medium legs

Nose: Oak, malt, small amount of salted caramel, hint of kettle corn.

Palate: Sweet but flat. The whisky feels weak and watered down, almost as though ice were melted into it. 

Sweet vanilla, buttered corn, light amount of charred oak. 

there are very subtle wisps of smoke in the finish; the burn is quick and unsatisfying, leaving you with lingering flavors of butterscotch candy.