Johnnie Walker has unveiled a new luxury blended Scotch Whisky that the company is calling its ultimate expression of blending artistry and for master blender Dr. Emma Walker, a “love letter to Scotland”.

The new blend gets its name from the creative atelier hidden deep beneath the streets of Edinburgh at The Johnnie Walker Experience. The Johnnie Walker Vault holds, at any given time, a selection of 500 whiskies from Diageo’s rare and ghost stocks.

These are personally curated and rotated by Dr. Emma Walker to showcase the very best of the more than 10 million casks of Scotch available to her as master blender, providing an unrivalled palette from which she has created the new expression.

In this release Dr. Walker has layered “legendary single malts from ghost distilleries “with contemporary malts that have never been tasted in a creation that artfully balances past and future.

Fusing a highly-aged Brora, put to cask before the distillery closed in 1983, with the first ever use of younger Brora, from casks filled following the distillery’s revival after decades of dormancy, Dr. Walker has created a unique expression of extraordinary history and depth, the company said.

Dr. Emma Walker, master blender at Johnnie Walker, said: “Johnnie Walker Vault is what I’ve called my love letter to Scotland – a truly special country to which I hold a deep connection.

“The creation of this whisky – a hand-selected blend of our extraordinary whiskies from across Scotland – is my way to express that.”