Johnnie Walker Green Label 15 Year Old

I've heard tell the nose on this one is full. Wrong. It's not, but it's quite pleasant: Koffee klatch, dark chocolate, oaky goodness, smoking peat curling round an elf's little chimney somewhere deep in the primeval forests of Avalon.

The mouth feel is abundant for a blended single malt. None of the malts in your glass of JW Green seem to be canceling each other out. Each works harmonious without upstaging the other.

Great feeling on the tongue, bathing taste buds in warmth that is not overpowering but mighty satisfying to me. I did not feel the slightest urge to add water.

So, I guess you could safely call this one "medium bodied." I taste hints of maple, granola, honey, pasture buttered Dave's spelt bread. And swirling throughout these flavors is an omnipresent sense of peat and smoke that is never overpowering yet integrated happily into the organic whole of the dram.

Still, it should be said that this scotch is not for peat heads unless they are taking a holiday from pickling their tongues with a high concentration of phenols.

As for the finish, well, it cannot be said to disappoint. Neither will the price at a pub. I paid $9.50 for a glass o' the Green. In my book, that means Green's finish is about as good as it gets at that price range. The oak came back for a last hurrah, along with a magical combination of cereal presence, sea salted caramel, and honey. Smoke and peat left the tongue and mouth happy, as well.

All told, this one's a mightily satisfying dram. I will probably end up buying one or two bottles before they are no more due to this line being discontinued by the shakers and movers at Walker, even though the price of this one is quite high where I live as compared with other haunts on earth.

I guess the Islay malts are getting to expensive to comfortably acquire, blend, and sell at a handsome enough profit. Fair enough, but too bad for the lovers of all that is Green.

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