Head to head · unusually close flavour match
Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour vs Johnnie Walker Blue Label
These two are not in the same bracket: £532 a litre of pure alcohol for Johnnie Walker Blue Label against £150 for Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour | Johnnie Walker Blue Label | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Single malt | Blended scotch |
| Origin | Islands, Scotland | Scotland |
| Age | 12 years | No age statement |
| Strength | 40% ABV | 40% ABV |
| Cask | Sherry-seasoned American oak, ex-bourbon | Not disclosed |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 700 ml |
| RRP observed | £42 | £149 |
| Per 10cl | £6.00 | £21 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £150 | £532 |
| Chill-filtered | Not stated | Not stated |
What separates them
Both from Scotland.
Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour is a single malt, Johnnie Walker Blue Label a blended scotch.
Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour states 12 years; Johnnie Walker Blue Label states none.
Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour lists sherry-seasoned american oak and ex-bourbon. Johnnie Walker Blue Label publishes no cask detail at all.
Neither states chill filtration.
Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour: specifications not yet producer-confirmed.
What the price buys
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is £107 dearer a bottle than Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour.
Strength keeps that ordering: £150 a litre of pure alcohol for Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour against £532.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour is 19th cheapest and Johnnie Walker Blue Label 31st cheapest.
Flavour, compared
View as table
| Axis | Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour | Johnnie Walker Blue Label |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 4 | 3 |
| Sweet | 6 | 7 |
| Fruity | 5 | 6 |
| Spicy | 4 | 5 |
| Woody | 5 | 5 |
| Sherried | 5 | 5 |
| Cereal | 5 | 5 |
| Oily | 6 | 7 |
No axis reaches the 3-point gap we call meaningful. Widest is peaty, 4 against 3.
Identical on woody, sherried and cereal.
Each bottle in its own right
Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour
Heather smoke and honey in balance. The best-balanced malt at its price.
Full record →Johnnie Walker Blue Label
Silky, honeyed and faintly smoky. Immaculately made, and priced for the box as much as the liquid.
Diageo's own page states no age at all, framing selection by rejection rate instead — only one cask in 10,000 qualifies — with some components from closed 'ghost' distilleries.
Full record →No overlap in what we list them for: Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour for all-rounder and bridge to peated whisky, Johnnie Walker Blue Label for gift and occasion bottle.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Highland Park 12 Year Old Viking Honour and Johnnie Walker Blue Label: highlandparkwhisky.com, thebar.com. Figures are what those pages published when we last checked them, on 2026-07-30.