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Johnnie Walker was started in 1820 by John Walker in Kilmarnock, Scotland. It is a blended Scotch whisky and the brand is owned today by Diageo. Its origins are in Kilmarnock, where John Walker began blending single malt whiskies together rather than selling them as they came.

Johnnie Walker is a blend rather than a single malt, and that was the point from the start. John Walker began blending single malt whiskies together so the taste was consistent bottle to bottle, rather than the inconsistent single malts most grocers stocked at the time.

Johnnie Walker can be served neat, on the rocks, with a mixer, or in a highball cocktail, according to the brand's own whisky guide. All four serves are given for the blended Scotch whisky, so which one you pour is down to the occasion.