Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch

Pros: Relatively Low Price; Easy to Find
Cons: Not as smooth as other blends

Scotch whiskey is a product originating in its native land of Scotland and it has been distilled for centuries by many different companies and family operations. Among them, the best known of all is that which was founded by a man named John Walker in ...

Pros: Great low price.  Interesting treatment of peat on the palate with sweetness.
Cons: Not for the serious scotch tasting event. 

Let me start by . . . saying: "I like Johnnie Walker Red Label!"The critics and snooty self-appointed scotch connosieurs are no doubt aghast at such a declaration, but I say a "pox on them and all their kind!" To borrow the ...

Pros: Not as egregiously bad as my horrible experience three years ago would suggest.
Cons: Mmmmm... burnt plastic.

My first experience with Scotch – a dreadful one – is one that is both well-documented on Epinions already, and also sorely imprinted in my own mind. And it involved, in fact, the very spirit that I am now taking a second look at – Johnnie ...

Pros: Very cost effective. With water this is a very balanced beverage
Cons: Too sweet and too much grain alcohol - make sure you cut this whisky

Johnnie Walker Red Label is the base whisky of its five offerings: Red, Black, Green, Gold, and Blue. Johnnie Walker Blue Label Blend has Scotch aged a minimum of 25 years and will run you around $150 ...

Pros: Decent flavor with lots of smoke. A good buy for the price.
Cons: Lacks complexity. Finishes with more heat than warranted. Very one note.

At roughly $28.00 a bottle, Johnnie Red is a very decent, respectable whiskey. It has a smokey nose and, predictably, a flavor long on smoke and alcohol, with a fairly long finish full of heat. Other than the smokiness and the heat, there is little...

Pros: Inexpensive
Cons: unrefined, simple

Red Label is a decent ordinary every-day scotch. (Well, not every day!) Though, it's my favorite in it's class it doesn't even compare to the much more expensive old single malts. I recently had a 30 year old Glenmorangie that gave me some perspective....