Mary Queen of Scots Cocktail
The Mash Bill:
1 1/2oz Scotch
3/4oz Green Chartreuse
3/4oz Drambuie
The Work Order:
My Thoughts:
A great scotch cocktail for after dinner. Slightly viscous, this cocktail imparts strong, long lasting flavours of herbs and smoked wood. Best to skip this one if you are not a fan of scotch.
Thriller Cocktail
The Mash Bill:
1 1/2oz Scotch
1oz Green Ginger Wine
1oz Orange Juice
The Work Order:
My Thoughts:
The scotch and ginger wine pair well together, the orange juice smooths out some of the alcohol bite of the scotch leaving the smoky flavours and spiciness to play in your mouth. There is a spicy ginger kick in the tail end of the drink.
Black Label Blaze
This is a cocktail that I tried for the Johnnie Walker Black Label Review
The Mash Bill:
1.5oz Johnnie Walker Black Label
1/2oz Grenadine
3oz Sweet and Sour Mix
Ice
The Work Order:
My Thoughts:
A strange taste, its sweet, its sour and acidic, yet its smokey and mellow. The Black Label cuts through the sweetness and allows you to still enjoy the
Johnnie Walker Black Label
History
Johnnie Walker was first sold in a small grocery store in Ayrshire, Scotland. Johnnie Walker continues to be blended in Kilmarnock, with a large processing plant just north of the town’s railway station.
Black Label is one of 6 variants that are available today, with 1 other (White Label) being discontinued in 1911.
Black Label is a blend consisting of 40 that have each been aged for 12 years (or longer), bottled at
Johnnie Walker Black Label – $50aud
Review
I decided to review this ‘On The Rocks.’
When I took a whiff out of the top of my glass, I was surprised to find that there was no harsh alcohol burn in my nose. In fact there is very little smell, I can honestly only detect a hint of honey and a smoky, peat fragrance. Sniffing a second time, maybe that honey smell is more like maple, a spiced maple.
Johnnie walker black is a light golden yellow, not the darkest of the scotches I have seen, but not the lightest either.
Swishing the scotch around in my mouth, there is a lot of sweet, smoky and peppery flavours. A slightly wooded flavour, what I imagine to be age old wood to taste like, cindering. There was not a lot of alcohol flavour, a tiny bit in the after taste, but not enough to make me screw my face up or anything
The spirit is smooth and slightly viscous in texture, and leaves a slight warmness in your throat after you take your last sip.
Cocktails
While I chose to review this ‘On the rocks’, I also made…
1.5oz Johnnie Walker Black Label
1/2oz Grenadine
3oz Sweet and Sour Mix
The Godfather
A simple concoction made up of Scotch and Amaretto
The Mash Bill:
1oz Scotch Whiskey
1oz Amaretto
Ice
Lemon Peel
The Work Order:
My Thoughts:
A strange but intriguing taste, it has the slight taste of scotch, with the sweetness and almond taste of the Amaretto, as the initial blast of Amaretto wears off, you do get the slightest aftertaste as if you were sipping on scotch.
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