Johnnie Walker is almost synonymous with Scotch for many people, and there’s a good reason for that. Today the brand sells over 130 million bottles a year, coming a long way from the brand’s humble beginnings in an Ayrshire grocery shop in 1820. The original John Walker’s sons started the rise to an international brand in the 1860s, when the ban against selling blended whiskies was overturned. Read more »