LOT ID: 0924-812
End Date : Nov 20 2024 09:50 PM
Johnnie Walker 150th Anniversary Blend. Bottled 1985. 75cl. 43%. In wooden presentation box with decanter and stopper.
A special limited edition Johnnie Walker set released to commemorate the brand’s 150th anniversary. Arriving in a wooden box, this commemorative edition features a special Johnnie Walker reserve blended whisky in an old fashioned brown glass dumpy bottle, plus a crystal decanter with a silver Striding Man stopper. Strangely, this set was released in 1985, a full 15 years after the 150th anniversary, which fell in 1970.
FILLING LEVEL
High Shoulder
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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£430.00 | 20th November 2024 | 19:50 | |