Johnnie Walker Explorers Club Collection - The Gold Route (edition 2) (1000ml)

Inspired by the travels of the Johnnie Walker agents in the 19th century, the Johnnie Walker Explorers’ Club Collection builds on the brand’s history and is relevant for today’s global citizens seeking new experiences. The packaging creates a window into each trade-route journey by using a device to show a pattern and palette that mirrors the liquid within. A new Walking Man globe symbol pays homage to the Johnnie Walker’s tenet of “Keep Walking” while visually unifying the series. The Spice Road is the first of the three limited editions in Johnnie Walker’s Explorer’s Club Collection and aims at celebrating the trade routes of old. The other two are the Gold Route and the Royal Route. During the 1800s and early 1900s, the Walker family, and their agents travelled the world in search of adventure. They took their whisky to Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean.  Johnnie Walker was enjoyed on the great railways, luxury ocean liners and early transatlantic flights.

The Gold Route

From the small map on the box, it seems that The Gold Route starts (from north to south) around modern-day Belize, follows the isthmus of Central America south, cuts across the Andes Mountains of Colombia, winds south between the western Amazon region to the east and the Andes to the west, and finally ends somewhere around southern Bolivia or northern Chile. Johnnie Walker doesn’t give many details on the creation of any of The Trade Routes Series blends, but does specify The Gold Route is a blend of aged whiskies (no age statement), matured in old American oak casks and comes in at 40 percent alcohol by volume.