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Johnnie Walker Game of Thrones White Walker Blended Scotch

With Water: A few drops of water amp up the nose tickle and the paint thinner, requiring a rest in the glass. Johnnie Walker White Walker is a limited edition blended scotch whisky dedicated to the TV show Game of Thrones (GoT).One tends to think of mass-market blends as homogenized and lowest-common-denominator, and… well, they are. As a scotch whisky, these spirits are required to be produced in Scotland and aged for a minimum of three years, but beyond that the specifics of their processes are left to the drinker’s imagination.

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Accompanied by intense cold, they wear armor that "seemed to change color as it moved", and wield thin crystal swords capable of shattering steel. Comprised of single malts from Cardhu and Clynelish, they made sure to play up the “freezing” aspect as much as possible. So resided beside my frozen pees and carrots for a week before I decided to try this new experience. Chill filtration is normally an unnecessary intrusion on the flavor of one’s whiskey as it removes flavor compounds, but I can see why it would be deemed essential in this case since this whisky is pulled from the freezer. It’s an interesting flavor with some unfortunate side effects when its taken neat, and taken chilled it’s only mediocre.In Johnnie Walker White Walker’s case, while there are some weird gimmicks like recommending it be drunk below freezing, Diageo at least put in the effort to create an entirely new expression. The single malts will reportedly include a no age statement (NAS) Cardhu Gold Reserve House Targaryen, a 9-year-old Lagavulin House Lannister, a House Stark Winter's Frost from Dalwhinnie and a 12-year-old Royal Lochnagar House Baratheon, with more details to follow. The front of the bottle sports a stylized “walking man” in the style of a Game of Thrones white walker, and the back is blank. In the Prologue, a ranging party from the Night's Watch come face to face with a group of the Others, who kill Ser Waymar Royce. As part of a wider partnership with Game of Thrones production company HBO, Diageo will also launch the Game of Thrones Single Malt Scotch Whisky Collection in February 2019, featuring eight whiskies, each paired with one of the Houses of Westeros and the Night’s Watch.

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Created by blender George Harper and the Johnnie Walker team, the whisky uses single malts from Cardhu and Clynelish in the blend, and is said to have ‘notes of caramelised sugar and vanilla, fresh red berries with a touch of orchard fruit’. Strongly influenced by the cold white mist that covers the Far North of Westeros, our limited edition Johnnie Walker Blended Scotch Whisky features a frosted bottle sleeve that reveals hidden designs when exposed to the cold.

The Night King kills Daenerys Targaryen's dragon Viserion in the seventh season episode " Beyond the Wall", and then reanimates him as a wight. The Other's armor was running down its legs in rivulets as pale blue blood hissed and steamed around the black dragonglass dagger in its throat . I was expecting one of their basic blended scotch whiskies that uses the Game of Thrones theme and packaging to sell.

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Just like with the Game of Thrones malts, Diageo would prefer these things disappear since they just simply made too many bottles. On the finish, I can see why they advise to try this chilled — there’s a good bit of bitterness on the finish that tends to ruin the experience. The bottle design is the best thing about the edition, but the stuff inside is that which rhymes with 'White'. Primarily referred to as the Others in the novels, White Walkers are a supernatural threat to mankind who dwell north of The Wall in Westeros. Bran states that the Night King is seeking an "endless night", as he plans to cleanse the world of all life and memory and intends to kill Bran as a major step towards this goal.v=1650104021","width":540},{"alt":null,"id":6915988029491,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1. After just one sip, I decided to let it rest in the freezer for a couple hours, and I must say, it’s definitely better that way. v=1668763401","width":720},{"alt":null,"id":32193572372793,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1. In the season 6 episode " The Door" (May 2016), Bran Stark experiences a vision of the creation of the Night King by Leaf, one of the Children of the Forest, by stabbing a human prisoner in the chest with a dragonglass dagger.