Some nice scents of canned fruit drift by the nostrils, in particular peaches and apricots. The initial impressions are of butterscotch, honey and wood spice. It seems rather light and gentle first but as the glass sits, the whisky seems to gain strength and intensity. Here is an excerpt from the resulting review: Jason asked me if I could review the new blend, and after a quick email with the Alberta Diageo Rep, a new bottle for review found its way onto my review queue. Of course this means that my previous review for Johnnie Walker Gold Label – The Centenary Blend is rather obsolete, a fact which was quickly pointed out to me by my good friend Jason, of Jason’s Scotch Reviews, when I recently re-posted that particular review. “GOLD LABEL RESERVE is blended from casks of Whiskies that have been specially selected from the Master Blender, Jim Beveridge’s Private Reserve.” Based upon what I can glean from the Johnnie Walker website (and the back of my bottle) it may not be only the ages of the individual whiskies in the blend which have changed, the actual constituents of the blend appear to have changed as well.

Instead of Johnnie Walker Gold Label – The Centenary Blend, the newest version is now called Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve. LABELVIEW 2015 Gold Network LABELVIEW 2015 Gold 1-year Subscription with Maintenance & Support USB. Coinciding with that particular change is a bit of a name change as well. The newest bottles of the Gold Label no longer carry that age statement. Back then it was called The Centenary Blend. A few years ago Johnnie Walker Gold Label carried an age statement of 18 years.

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