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Minutes I jabbed the Johnny Walker Blue folks for not sending me a photo of their heralded scotch, they sent me the photo.
I didn't want it to go to waste, so I figured I'd share it with you.
I'm not sure what else to say.
I like scotch.
Do you like scotch?
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "simulated sex with a potted palm tree." Before The Sun, he was a reporter at the Miami New Times. He's also written for Miami magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Gainesville Sun. Got tips? Gripes? Pitches? He's reachable at erik.maza@baltsun.com. Click here to keep up with the dumb music he's listening to.
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Posted by: Anonymous | December 15, 2009 10:46 AM
Adore it. Habit picked up from my mom and grandmother. My favorite "ph, i've earned it" splurge is a trip to Birds of a Feather.
Posted by: Meekrat | December 15, 2009 10:49 AM
I love scotch.
Scotchy, scotch, scotch.
Here it goes down, down into my belly...
Posted by: Ron Burgundy | December 15, 2009 11:05 AM
I like my women blond and my Johnny Walker Red.
Posted by: Broadway Joe Namath | December 15, 2009 11:25 AM
Definitely love scotch, especially Laphroaig, Talisker, & Bowmore. Totally can't drink scotch, because I'll drink like 800 calories of it in a single sitting.
Posted by: Frau Blucher | December 15, 2009 11:30 AM
I'm not big on Scotch but everyone assures me I will when I get older. Johnny walker is doing a big Blue push, here in DC I see ads everywhere on revolving doors at the train station etc. It's going for $150 a bottle if anyone needs a mule I'm back and forth between Balt/DC every day.
Posted by: Tif | December 15, 2009 11:31 AM
Beautiful. though I'd take a good single malt over a johnny any day.
Posted by: Matt | December 15, 2009 11:50 AM
JW Blue is no better than any of their other labels. You're better off spending the same amount of money on an good American bourbon or spend more on a single malt.
Posted by: Paul_D | December 15, 2009 12:52 PM
paul,
have to respectfully disagree. The Scottish prefer blended to single malt ( essentially cheaper scotch used in blends marketed in the 80s to the original yuppies. The big labels excluded of course.) as it's like a craft one has to master over their lifetime as a distiller. that being said. JWB is worth every penny. Blue is made with (up to) 60 year old scotch so of course there's going to be a difference. And no I'm not a shill. It's VERY smooth and doesn't have the whiskey burn on the way down. Tell ya what. I'll set it up, lets do a JW tasting. Any takers? It would have to be @ Hopps though! (it's usually $25 a glass!) ;)
Posted by: J.M. Giordano | December 15, 2009 1:46 PM
I'm with JM, paul. JW Blue is far and away better than Red -- not even close -- and better than the Black..."better" always being subjective, of course, but it's fuller, with more flavor. And JW Green IS all malt: it's a blend of malts, no grain whisky in there. Blended whisky is, I believe, in the beginnings of a change in the US market. Single malts are getting wicked expensive, but there are blends that are quite good that aren't as dear as singles. We shouldn't dismiss them.
Oh, and...love the post! Scotch, scotch, scotch; bourbon, bourbon, bourbon. Damn. Feels good!
Posted by: Lew Bryson | December 16, 2009 11:06 AM