The Johnie Walker Blue Label New York limited edition is apart of a seven bottle series called the Cityscape editions, often referred to as Skyline editions, Johnnie Walker released a bottle for seven major city's and each bottle was exclusively to DFS shops around the world. The original set of seven cityscape bottles where San Francisco, Las Angeles, New York City, Auckland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mumbai. Then later on a few extra editions where added such as London,Toronto, Sydney, Paris, Tel Aviv and Moscow. The original set of seven are engraved and numbered from numbers between 1-50 and 1-300 being the highest.
I was lucky enough to be presented the number 1 of 100
The story goes,
When I was traveling to Hong Kong to explore and purchase the Johnnie Walker Hong Kong edition I met the Manager Karl of the DFS store, he was intrigued about the set and after talking for a while I told him that to complete my set of seven all I needed was the Mumbai edition and the New York edition, two of the most desired and hardest editions to obtain, especially for me being from Australia! So he said he knew a few people who travel and offered kindly to help. After enjoying my time in Hong Kong and returning to Australia Karl emailed me a few weeks later as promised and said that he had a Mumbai bottle for me! Egar to complete this amazing set I got on a flight back to Hong Kong! Once back in the amazing city of Hong Kong I met Karl at the DFS store and as promised he had for me a Johnnie Walker Blue Label Mumbai edition! One of the rarest of the seven because there are only 50 ever made! After purchasing the Mumbai edition Karl said he had one more surprise for me..
Johnnie Walker Blue Label Mumbai edition 26 of 50
To my amazement Karl and the DFS team presented me with the number 1 of 100 New York skyline bottle complementary for my passion and dedication to acquiring the set!
I will be for ever greatful to receive such a gift and own a piece of Johnnie Walker history. It really does pay to show your passion for what you love and it's great there are still amazing people out there that see it and offer to help, if it wasn't for Johnnie Walker I wouldn't have seen half the cities I have visited or met half the people I now consider friends.
Thank you again Karl and the Hong Kong DFS team.
I only know of three complete sets of the original seven, one of those sets being mine in Australia. Another in Australia and one more in San Fransisco.
Receiving the number 1 of 100 New York Edition
Left to right - Cammy Wu (Diageo BA) my self Shane Batchler (underdressed for the occasion)
Karl Sutcliffe (GM - HKIA)
And my father Wayne Batchler
The original seven bottles in the cityscape series
Left to right - New York, San Fransisco, Las Angeles, Hong Kong, Auckland, Mumbai and Singapore.
