I know there is already a Dan Murphy's offer. But I thought this is worth a seperate one.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label 700ml $164.90
I paid $180 Duty free in June this year. I think it is a BARGAIN!!
Dan Murphy's Offer - Johnnie Walker Blue Label 750ml $164.90
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Hmm.. I have to check that when I go home. I think it was the 750ml size…
I happened to be at the airport a couple of days ago. I think their physical shop sells it a little cheaper.
JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE 750ML = $175
http://www.firstdutyfree.com.au/category/liquor/whiskey/1120…
Because I'm a top dogg baller shorty I'm a BOSS.
Ima mix it with coke and wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy.
anyone who mixes Blue Label with Coke deserves to be publicly flogged.
haha I mix any scotch with coke.
I remember winning big $ in Melbourne casino years ago, was at the bar knocking back Johnnie Blues, about 6 of them - straight, by number seven I asked for one with coke, the barman refused to pour it in the Johnnie glass, gave me the coke seperate, so I poured it in and as I did it all the people around me went nooo or groaned. ..I'm gonna have a blue and coke tonight in private this time :D
btw, this is a great deal.
i paid 380 for 2 x 1l duty free, so 180 for 1l duty sounds right
WARNING!!!! Once you drink this, you cant drink anything less than black label
even black label is crap nowadays… gold label/18 yrs old whisky is the minimum if u want…
I haven't tried Blue, but Green remains my favourite. Full of flavour without going overboard on price. I bought a bottle of Gold recently and I must say I'm a little disappointed. It's very smooth but that's about it for me. I've always been disappointed by Black.
I guess Blue could be looked at as good value at around $7.50 per standard drink. It's difficult to get a decent whisky in a bar for that price. But you do have to stay home to drink :-)
Agreed!! Green is one of Johnnie's best. I recently tried Johnnie's Bouble Black. Another Super creation.
THanks for the heads up. I haven't touched my blue label just yet. Might buy myself a gold and see how that goes.
black is barely acceptable. However i can take chivas 12 which is about the same price
WARNING!!!! Once you drink this, you cant undrink it!
Bulimics can
Note: Online order is for Minimum order of 6
$164.90 in any six
$989.40 per case of 6
$164.90 per bottle
Minimum order case of 6A boozle.com.au search has Dan Murphy's in WA selling Johnnie Walker:
- black for $35
- green for $55 (normally 90)
- gold for $90 (normally 150)
- blue for $165 (normally 200)I'm seriously thinking about the gold - I had a bottle of green last year and it was well nice.
Can people really tell much of a different between the different kinds of whisky? I must have tried at least 50 different kinds of bourban/whisky/scotch over the years and I can't say I've ever had one that tasted a lot better than all the others.
Seems like a bit of a waste to pay so much more than the others.
Its personal taste I am sure there is something that you buy where there is a cheaper version of it. People just enjoy expensive things. Feels good to go damn this is $200 a bottle whiskey that I'm drinking.
Hell yeah..
We're not mixing it with Coke which helps!But of course, the difference is not $100 worth, just like a bottle of Grange Hermitage isn't $1000 better than a $35 bottle.
Don't both with any of these blends, particularly with anyone telling you to get a blue label or black label etc.
Instead get single malts. I'd suggest Islay malts such as Ardbeg (or Bowmore at a push) and compare with something like a Speyside.
Not even close, and you'll not both with a blend ever again.
Not sure why someone voted the above negative. Both single malts and blends have their place.
I love Laphroig quarter cask strength, Glenlivet and Yamazaki, but I also drink Johnnie Walker Green and a few other blends. Variety is a good thing, and sometimes drinking single malts becomes dull.
It was in answer to the poster suggesting they all taste the same.
Blends are the equivalent of putting loads of different ice cream flavours into a pot, mixing, and then wondering why it tastes indistinct and samey. In contrast single malts are each unique and amongst the range you'll find a flavour you like - if you give it a chance.
Although if the poster can't tell the difference between bourbon and single malt - maybe they actually don't have a tongue?
I agree that single malts and blends have their place. There is no real reason why one would be superior to the other; to borrow an analogy, vanilla with caramel can taste just as nice as vanilla ice-cream.
I bought a bottle for someone's birthday recently, and I think it is very enjoyable. Johnnie Walker Blue contains the Royal Lochnagar Single Malt, which is becoming a very rare whisky to taste outside of the Blue Label. It also contains whisky that can take up to 60 years to mature, so it's obviously a product that they believe warrants a lot of patience. Sometimes it's not just marketing and hype.
Also, the Queen of England apparently serves this, so it can't be half bad.
As for cask strength whisky, I have heard that the Green Label is cask strength, so perhaps that is why so many people here enjoy it over the other labels and are disappointed when they move on to Gold Label. I think Johnnie Walker meant for each label to differ in taste and what it brings to the table, not neccessarily just an upgrade in "quality".
P.S. For those who were wondering, scotch IS whisky, scotch just means it was made in Scotland. Bourbon is ALSO whisky, just that it is made in US, from corn, instead of barley.
P.S.S. If anyone cares to look it up, I believe it was also the blended whisky that made whisky rocket up in popularity. And they only started blending because a lot of single malts were being produced with a distinct lack of flavour and depth.
I can't wait to get my hands on a 2010 Ardbeg Supernova! I just hope it lives up to it's reviews/recommendations
Please excuse my ignorance, but how do I "both" a blend? Does it have anything to do with mixing? I've never heard of it before.
Try Laphroig. It tastes like nothing else.
I absolutely couldn't agree more!
Try Ipecac. The results always taste familiar, yet different, and it's definitely more of a "blendy" thing
Hahahaha shmahoo….
Who wants chowder?
to shmahoo, getting drunk on Laphroig must be absolutely evil. Probably the only thing worse to go overboard with would be Chartreuse!
Honestly, yes. I recently opened a bottle of Jack Daniels Single Barrel bourbon and I can easily tell the difference between that and the Jim Beam I'd been drinking before - much nicer flavour and far smoother. As an aside, the US version of JD single barrel is 47% alcohol, the Aussie version is 45%. Go figure.
Quite often we get slightly lower alcohol content in our spirits. For example, many gins contain 47% alcohol in their original versions but only have 40% locally. It's all to do with taxation. More alcohol = higher tax.
Yeah but bourbon is gross and cannot be compared to whisky.
bourbon IS a type of whisky
I too bought a 1L duty free early Oct for $180, this is a bargain.
If you want something better for around the same price (actually should be less if you hunt around) try a Macallan 18yr. Bought one duty free for $130 after sampling a 21yr bottle of Macallan Fine Oak a couple of years ago.Macallan just sold the most expensive whiskey last month for around $460,000!
you're better off getting a good single malt
these johnnie blues etc are more for collectors
Diageo sells more than 130 million bottles of Johnnie Walker products per year. If even 0.1% of those sales are Blue, that still adds 130,000 bottles to the global supply per year. It wouldn't be worth collecting.
The real Johnny Walker collector's item is 'The John Walker'… $3000US per bottle and apparently only 10 released for Australia. 9 has been sold…. WHERE'S THE LAST ONE? SHOTGUN!!!!
Pfff Blue Label? I don't drink anything less than Blue King George with my ginger ale.
This will be great to have sitting by the fire place with my fur coat.
I can picture you now Bigglez, sitting back in your armchair in front of a roaring electric faux fireplace, wearing your smoking jacket & fine silk cravat, puffing away on your bubble-pipe!
Gotta wonder what the poor people are doing on a night like this!!! ;)
well played sir.
rather just buy black label for $35.. great whiskey for the price.
johnnie black is only good for mixing with coke anyway
you can't honestly drink that crap straight
johnnie walker any label is over rated as far I am concerned. The glenlivet and glenfidich range is much better. Try the 15 year old glenlivet french oak reserve and doesnt dent your pocket too much as well.
what about johnny walker black label with soda water?…mmmmmmmm
21 Yo Chivas Regal Royal Salute…better deal imho
http://www.boozle.com.au/spirits/brand/chivas-regal/name/21-…
Blue label brings back memories. I used to drink a bottle with the captain of the ship I worked on about 3 nights a week.
Just my 2 cents worth…..
Blue Label, while a fine whisky, IMO is still not worth $165. Green Label, IMO, is the only Johnny Walker that justifies its price. And even then, you can get better whiskies for the price.
Chivas 21yo is also a fine scotch, but the idea of labelling a scotch as "Regal Royal Salute" is pretentious. Actually, having a 21yo blended whisky is somewhat pretentious. Also, IMO, there are still better whiskies out there for that price range price
I have an Island and Islay bias. However, if I like a particular scotch, I don't care what region it is from. But here are some of my personal recommendations:
(All from Dan Murphy's, all I either have/had a bottle, all under the $165)
Talisker 18yo - $123.70 (Sublime)
Hart Brothers Laphroaig 18yo – $108.80 (Sublime)
Laphroaig QC - $98.99 (Better off getting the HB release while it's available)
Hart Brothers Macallan 15yo - $89 (Fantastic Value!)
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban – $88.10 (Simply yum)
Glenlivet French Oak 15yo - $82.19 (Better than the 18yo IMO)For a 'Scotch and Coke' whisky on a budget, look at either Dimple 15YO or Bailie NJ. Both have a high malt content and IMO both murder Black Label. Dimple 15YO can be picked up for less than $40 when on sale.
Hi Suit, nice info. Laphroaig is on my list to try, just a question why do you prefer the HB release? I understand HB is an independent bottler, do they do anything special? thx
The only 'special' thing Hart Brothers really do is buy particular casks and bottle them when they think it has reached it's 'peak'. The problem with this is, they don't always get it right. I have bought previous HB releases (from many different distilleries) and they have been utter rubbish. Usually because the have been bottled well before they have properly matured.
I like the HB Laphroaig not only because it tastes great, but also (and more importantly to OzBargainers) it's price. $109 for a 18yo Laphroaig is a bargain.
I find that most HB release are excellent value. However, as previous mentioned, it's a bit of a gamble.
P.S. For your first try at Laphroaig, your best to start with a Quarter Cask in my opinion.
Starting Laphroaig at quarter cask strength? I've seen people recoil at the taste of the normal 10 year old. Giving them QC without added water is likely to turn them off for life :-)
Great info Suit. Nicesummary for a new kid on the block. I wish my dad had taught me about the finer whiskeys in life while growing up- instead I spent my late teens and early twenties having JW Red by the bottle. Yuck
I'm in my mid twenties, however I did get an early start. Due to combination of having much older siblings (one who also likes a good scotch), and receiving many generous alcohol related birthday/Christmas presents over the years.
Saying that, I have also murdered many a Red label with Coke. And I certainly can't promise I won't continue to do this. Mainly due to the fact that only a very small minority of my friends (3) share the same love for scotch as me. And that the drunker I get, the less and less I care what I drink.
There is a time and a place for a fine single malt. And a time and a place to get legless, 'smashing down the piss', with your mates. However, I am wise enough to now fine establishments that have a good house scotch.
single malt > blended
sounds like an annual meeting of smoked iodine suckin' Sassenachs :D
If you like an iodine flavoured whisky, try Talisker. I swear, that stuff should be coloured purple.
3.6% of all cancers and 3.5% of deaths worldwide are due to drinking alcohol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancerWhat I'm saying is maybe it's better to go for the costly one, you are less likely to overdo it and more likely to appreciate each sip… Downvotes anyone? hehe
I recently tried a bottle of Green Label Pepsi Max, but it was just that it had been at the back of my cupboard for too long and had gone off!
Disgusting!
Don't forget your duty free is 1Litre bottle.