1 Bottle of Johnnie Walker Platinum Label, Whisky, Scotland
Item Number: 565
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Description
The Exclusivity, Johnnie Walker Platinum Label is rich and refined, a contemporary and complex blend of single malt and grain whiskies matured for a minimum of 18 years.
John Walker saw the incredible potential of a blended Scotch whisky. A master blender of teas, he dedicated himself to the exacting combination of select whiskies. The results were extraordinary: his blends showed consistently high quality, drop after drop; but the complexity of their flavor also proved unmatched by individual single malts. By combining whiskies from the vast regions of Scotland, an unforeseen depth of flavor revealed itself possible. John Walker began selling Scotch whiskies in his Kilmarnock grocer's shop in 1820 and quickly established an unsurpassed reputation for quality.
To this day, the company selects the finest whiskies across Scotland, from the elegant single malts of the Highlands to the smokiest whiskies of Islay. They have the largest collection of whiskies in the world, an asset that allows their Master Blenders to push the boundaries of their craft with every new creation.
The Platinum is drawn from a limited number of casks, carefully chosen and retained throughout their maturation because of their exceptional character. This whisky is a skillful blend of style and substance artfully crafted by Master Blender Jim Beveridge.
Johnnie Walker Platinum Label is a complex, luxurious blend harboring deep layers of flavor that perfectly balance the diverse character of the distilleries from which it came and the wood in which it has rested. Flavor notes include rich dried fruit, malty cereal, smooth creamy vanilla, fragrant almonds and tangerines. It is an elegant, contemporary example of the Speyside style, finished with a hint of Islay smokiness.
Johnnie Walker Platinum Label is best enjoyed neat and with water.
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Special Instructions
1 Bottle of 0,750L
Scotch Whiskey is made from just three ingredients (malted barley, yeast and water) and is produced under the regulations laid out in the Scotch Whisky Act 1988.
Before even thinking about distilling the barley has to be malted to trigger naturally occurring enzymes that help to change the starch into sugars. To do this the grain is fooled into thinking it is time to start to grow. Therefore the barley is given an average of 3 immersions in water over a period of 48 hours. After roughly five days the starch within the barley has been made available and the grains are putting out shoots and roots (green malt). The grows is afterwards stopped by drying the green malt in a kiln, type of oven. Flavors are introduced by lightning a peat fire under the perforated floor of the kiln. Be aware not all malts are peated, some are dried smoke free or lightly peated.
The next step is to ground the malted grain into a rough flour (grist) which is blown in to a vessel called a mash tun. At the same time it is mixed with hot water from the own source of the distillery. The hot water filter through the grist, dissolving the sugars. This sweet sugar liquid is drawn from the bottom of the mash tun, cooled and pumped to the fermenter. Then yeast is added to the cooled sugar water and fermentation begins for +/- 48 hours. The sugars convert into alcohol while CO2 and heat are given off. At least this liquid is distilled twice in a copper pot still. The first distillation takes place in a wash still giving an alcoholic liquid, which is then charged into a liquid still where the process is repeated. Different from the first distill the stillman will separate the heart of the spirit from the volatile first part and the heavy oily last part. Only the heart of the spirit will then be reduced and transferred into oak casks of 700l. The scotch whisky industry does use used barrels from Sherry or Bourbon. After the spirit has rested they are blended to create the house style. Before the bottling, the spirit is reduced to bottling strength with demineralised water and chill filtered. After labeling the bottle is ready to be sold.