LOT ID: 0723-908
End Date : Sep 13 2023 08:00 PM
Johnnie Walker The Directors Blend. Bottled 2011 Edition. One of 504 bottles. 70cl. 46%. No box.
The Johnnie Walker Directors Blend series are amongst the rarest and most sought after Johnnie Walker bottlings ever released. They are never sold but instead given away by the company to their friends and colleagues throughout the course of each year making them incredible hard to fine on the secondary mark.
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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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£1,100.00 | 13th September 2023 | 19:49 | |