LOT ID: 0523-213
End Date : Jul 05 2023 08:00 PM
Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Chinese New Year. The Year Of The Rat. Bottled 2019. 1 Litre. 40%. In presentation box.
This Johnnie Walker Limited Edition Design honours Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rat. The design pays homage to the Rat as an emblem of prosperity and abundance to welcome in the New Year.
Each panel represents the Rat's finest qualities; optimism and ambition, intelligence and adaptability, and strong vitality. Celebratory lanterns hang from cherry blossom branches, symbolising the abundant harvest brought by the Rat and granting blessings of good fortune. Illustrated by Shirley Gong.
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The 15-year-old John Walker took over a Kilmarnock grocery store in 1820, and built his business as a delicatessen and tea blender. John’s son Alexander switched to whisky wholesaling in the 1850s, rapidly expanding the business. By 1908 the famous slanting label, square-sided bottles and the iconic Striding Man logo were all in place and the legendary tagline ‘Born in 1820 - Still Going Strong’ soon propelled Johnnie Walker to international prominence.
John Walker & Co. merged into Distillers Company Limited (DCL) in the 1920s as the biggest Scotch whisky blender, and remains DCL successor Diageo’s most important whisky brand. Since the 1980s the classic Red Label and Black Label have been joined by various new Johnnie Walker whiskies, including Johnnie Walker Blue Label, Green Label and Gold Label and the prestige edition Johnnie Walker King George V.
BID | DATE | TIME | |
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£140.00 | 1st July 2023 | 21:14 | |