Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare Glenury Royal Blended Scotch Whisky, 70 cl

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The finish is beautifully balanced, with supple notes of honeycomb, soft wood, and a gentle sweetness. Glenury Royal was closed in 1985 during the 'whisky loch', a crisis caused by the gross over-estimation of demand in the 1970s.

This Limited Edition has been crafted by Master Blender Jim Beveridge and his small team of passionate blenders using eight handpicked whiskies from the four corners of Scotland, including three irreplaceable 'ghost whiskies' and five incredibly rare malt expressions, from the Johnnie Walker Blue Label Blended Scotch Whisky reserves. Inspired by the Highlands and the TV show "Outlander," the whisky boasts notes of vanilla, butterscotch, and oak spice.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare Glenury Royal, has a rare single malt from the 'ghost' Glenury Royal Distillery at its heart. Johnnie Walker's Master Blender, Jim Beveridge, and his amazing team of expert blenders are the guardians of our extraordinary history. We'll send them to be recycled and you'll save paper, carbon emissions and time at the recycling centre! Alongside the distinctive autumnal character from Pittyvaich whiskies, the sweet and fruit notes of fresh apple beautifully balanced with the delicate subtle sweetness of honeycomb and soft wood from the “ghost” whiskies of Port Dundas and Carsebridge. Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare Pittyvaich was released in 2021 as part of the continuing Ghost and Rare series celebrating the rare and lost distilleries that contribute to the Johnnie Walker brand's globe-bestriding success.

The distillery was destroyed by a fire just a few weeks after opening, but later became one of only three Scottish distilleries to hold a royal title. The Highland distillery was founded in 1825 by Captain Robert Barclay, a member of the British Parliament and the first man to walk one thousand miles in one thousand hours.

Content on this site is not intended to substitute for advice given by medical practitioner, pharmacist, or other licensed health-care professional. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Johnnie Walker’s Ghost and Rare series has brought some long lost names back into the public eye, and this time it’s the turn of Glenury Royal to be thrust into the limelight.

Other rare whiskies in the blend include Glen Elgin, Inchgower Glenlossie, Pittyvaich and Glenkinchie, these add waves of vanilla, heather honey and dried fruits that intertwine with smooth dark chocolate and nutty layers to create a perfectly balanced experience of this irreplaceable 'ghost' whisky. Please note local Duties and Taxes may be charged by Customs in the destination country and the receiver is responsible for paying them. Included within is grain whisky from Glasgow's Port Dundas distillery (which closed back in 2010), matured in second-fill and heavily charred first-fill American oak casks. Blue label is an aged whisky with a beautiful, complex flavour, and red label has sweeter flavours of butterscotch and vanilla.Custom design, individually numbered bottles, with a map of Scotland showing each of the distilleries included in the whisky. At the heart of this blend is a wonderful single malt from the Glenury Royal distillery that closed in 1985, culminating in a sweet finish with gentle spices to this perfectly balanced Scotch. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Johnnie Walker’s Master Blender, Jim Beveridge, and his amazing team of expert blenders are the guardians of our extraordinary history. Their dedication to their craft enables them to build structure, form and meaning into every sip, like artists composing a masterpiece.

Johnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare Glenury Royal is a special edition of Johnnie Walker Blue Label released in 2019 to celebrate one of the unsung lost distilleries that have played an important role in the huge success of Johnnie Walker Blue. This limited edition has been carefully crafted by Master Blender Jim Beveridge and his small team of passionate blenders using eight handpicked whiskies from the four corners of Scotland, including three irreplaceable ‘ghost whiskies’ an. At the heart of this whisky lies the Highland single malt Glenury Royal, from the distillery of the same name that shut its doors in 1985. Jim Beveridge used malts from Pittyvaich, Glen Elgin, Inchgower, Glenlossie, and Glenkinchie, as well as grains from Cambus and Cameronbridge to build out the expression. If you enjoy Johnnie Walker whisky, you might also be interested in our full Scotch whisky selection, which includes Highland whisky, Islay whisky, and Campbeltown whisky.Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare Pittyvaich has an exceptional single malt from the 'ghost' distillery of Pittyvaich at its heart. The fifth in this much talked about limited edition series, Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare Port Dundas, draws on rare casks from the Glasgow “ghost” distillery of Port Dundas, once a powerhouse of the Whisky world, which closed its doors in 2010. Each release offer a fleeting opportunity to savour the depth of character of whiskies from 'ghost' distilleries that have long since closed, but whose spirit still lives on in the precious liquid captured in every bottle.