My first visit to Edinburgh attraction Johnnie Walker Princes Street

Edinburgh Evening News

Despite not being a fan of whisky, our reporter Kevin Quinn visited Johnnie Walker Princes Street in Edinburgh for the first time, and had his head turned by our national drink.

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00:00I headed along to Johnny Walker Princes Street for the first time, the eight

00:04floor visitor experience for the world's best-selling Scotch whisky which opened

00:08in September 2021. Since it opened, Johnny Walker Princes Street has

00:13welcomed over 830,000 visitors from 131 countries as of March this year. The

00:24experience began with a tailored quiz that identifies your preferred flavour

00:28profile which comes in handy later when we make some whisky-based cocktails. Our

00:36guide Emma welcomed us and talked us through the history of Johnny Walker.

00:58After immersing ourselves in Johnny Walker's history through a captivating

01:12live performance, we travelled back in time to the Grosser Sensorium. Here we

01:17enjoyed our first cocktail before embarking on a multi-sensory journey. We

01:22also unravelled the secrets behind the four corner distilleries of Johnny

01:26Walker. The distilleries that contribute their unique characters to the Johnny

01:30Walker blends.

01:49This multi-sensory journey is great for whisky lovers and, like myself, non-whisky

01:55lovers, learning so much about how whisky is made and how it's so popular around

02:00the world.

02:26I approach the blending process as a composer creating the same beautiful

02:30melody with different instruments and musicians. For our Gold Label Reserve,

02:34which celebrates the art of blending, I started with the percussion section.

02:42Golden flavours such as storm fruits, pulled from Cardu. Next, bring on the keys.

02:55Sweet creamy vanilla. Cameron Bridge will do the trick here.

03:11To wrap up my experience at Johnny Walker Princes Street, I was treated to a

03:16highball fruity cocktail with Johnny Walker and peach highball topped with

03:20dehydrated half apricot.

03:25And then it was up to the 1820 Rooftop Bar for some lovely food.

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