Johnnie Walker Blenders' Batch Red Rye Finish

Johnnie Walker Red Rye Finish is the first release of Blenders’s Batch series. It is an innovative experiment of flavor. Apparently after 50 experiments of over 200 malt and grain whiskies, they’ve used small number of malt from Cardhu Distillery and grain whiskies from Port Dundas. This blend has been matured in first fill Ex-Bourbon casks for at least 3 years – story doesn’t tell, how long. After maturation, the whisky has been finished for six months in old rye whiskey casks. The Blender’s Batch range is all about variation and experimentation. For this first release they used whiskies matured in first-fill American oak which were blended and finished for six months in casks that previously held rye whiskey. It is a wide-scale evolution of a previous experiment, Johnnie Walker Select Casks Rye Finish, that was released in the US last year.