Head to head · unusually close flavour match
Johnnie Walker Blue Label vs Teeling Small Batch
These two are not in the same bracket: £532 a litre of pure alcohol for Johnnie Walker Blue Label against £99 for Teeling Small Batch.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Johnnie Walker Blue Label | Teeling Small Batch | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Blended scotch | Irish blend |
| Origin | Scotland | Dublin, Ireland |
| Age | No age statement | No age statement |
| Strength | 40% ABV | 46% ABV |
| Cask | Not disclosed | Ex-bourbon barrel, Central American rum cask |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 700 ml |
| RRP observed | £149 | £32 |
| Per 10cl | £21 | £4.57 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £532 | £99 |
| Chill-filtered | Not stated | No |
What separates them
Different countries: Johnnie Walker Blue Label from Scotland, Teeling Small Batch from Dublin, Ireland.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a blended scotch, Teeling Small Batch a irish blend.
Neither carries an age statement, so neither discloses its youngest spirit.
Teeling Small Batch lists ex-bourbon barrel and central american rum cask. Johnnie Walker Blue Label publishes no cask detail at all.
Chill filtration: Johnnie Walker Blue Label does not say, Teeling Small Batch is not.
What the price buys
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is £117 dearer a bottle than Teeling Small Batch.
Strength keeps that ordering: £99 a litre of pure alcohol for Teeling Small Batch against £532.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is 31st cheapest and Teeling Small Batch 3rd cheapest.
Flavour, compared
View as table
| Axis | Johnnie Walker Blue Label | Teeling Small Batch |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 3 | 0 |
| Sweet | 7 | 7 |
| Fruity | 6 | 6 |
| Spicy | 5 | 5 |
| Woody | 5 | 4 |
| Sherried | 5 | 3 |
| Cereal | 5 | 5 |
| Oily | 7 | 7 |
Furthest apart on peaty, 3 against 0. 1 of the eight axes clears 3 points: peaty.
Identical on sweet, fruity, spicy, cereal and oily.
Each bottle in its own right
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 →Teeling Small Batch
Vanilla and spiced rum sweetness at 46%, non-chill-filtered. Remarkable for the money.
Fully aged in ex-bourbon, then married in Central American rum casks for 'up to 12 months' — note that is a ceiling, not a fixed period.
Full record →No overlap in what we list them for: Johnnie Walker Blue Label for gift and occasion bottle, Teeling Small Batch for value at 46%, first irish whiskey and highball.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Johnnie Walker Blue Label and Teeling Small Batch: thebar.com, teelingwhiskey.com. Figures are what those pages published when we last checked them, on 2026-07-30.