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Elusive Umami
This limited-edition blended whisky is a collaboration between Johnnie Walker’s master blender Emma Walker and renowned Japanese chef Kei Kobayashi. Joining forces to push the boundaries of flavour, the pair set out to create a whisky that encapsulates the character of umami. A Japanese word used to identify the ‘fifth taste’, umami is an enigmatic, savoury taste that is often hard to define.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label Elusive Umami
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Each cask that went into this blend was specially selected for its character, creating a marriage of casks that offer the perfect umami profile. Combining aromas of ripe apples, cashew nuts, sea salt and savoury oak with notes of white peaches, blood oranges, oak spice, smoked meat, salt and black pepper, there is a careful balance between sweet and savoury that embodies that umami character.
Tasting Notes Ning Heywood, The Whisky Exchange
Nose
Charred orange peel and girolle mushrooms break through immediately, with a backdrop of sea salt, crunchy cranberries, sweet oak spice, star anise and cardamom. More blood orange aromas bring up the rear, followed by savoury hints of dried meat.
Palate
Initially filled with sweet caramel, the palate quickly moves to notes of charred oak, savoury malt, bright citrus and crushed black peppercorns. There’s an undercurrent of smoked meats and aromatic spices that builds towards the back of the palate.
Finish
A nutty finish full of lingering notes of wood smoke, mushrooms, orange oil and peppery oak.
Comment
A complex array of sweet and savoury, with an incredible balance. This is one that takes time to fully unravel and will keep you going back for more.
About Johnnie Walker
Limited editions aside, Johnnie Walker’s whiskies have truly shaped the market, the industry – indeed, the very foundations of whisky – over the course of the last two centuries. The brand’s range of blends – which includes Red Label, Black Label, Double Black, Green Label (the only blended malt whisky in the range), Gold Label and Blue Label – has been a benchmark for quality to which many others continue to aspire.
Johnnie Walker has brought whisky into the modern world in great leaps and bounds, and may he keep on striding for many more to come.