Johnnie Walker Black Label in New York City

Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch whisky presently possessed by Diageo that started in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. The brand was first settled by merchant John Walker. It is the most generally dispersed brand of mixed Scotch whisky on the planet, sold in pretty much every nation, with yearly deals of what might be compared to over 223.7 million 700 ml bottles in 2016 (156.6 million liters).

John Walker was conceived on 25 July 1805. His rancher father passed on in 1819, and the family sold the homestead. Their trustees contributed the returns, £417, in an Italian distribution center, basic food item, and wine and spirits shop on the High Street in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Walker dealt with the basic food item, wine, and spirits section as a youngster in 1820. The Excise Act of 1823 loosened up exacting laws on refining of whisky and decreased, by an impressive sum, the incredibly substantial assessments on the refining and offer of whisky. By 1825, Walker, a teetotaller, was selling spirits, including rum, cognac, gin, and whisky.

Quite expeditiously, he changed to managing essentially in whisky. Since mixing of grain and malt whiskies was as yet restricted, he sold both mixed malt whiskies and grain whiskies. They were sold as specially made whiskies, mixed to meet explicit client necessities, since he didn't have any brand of his own. He started utilizing his name on names years after the fact, selling a mixed malt as Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky. John Walker kicked the bucket in 1857.

Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch whisky owned by Diageo that originated in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. It is the most widely distributed brand of blended Scotch whisky in the world, sold in almost every country, with annual sales of the equivalent of over 226.2 million 750 ml bottles in 2015.