Do yourself a favor and don’t add water, it makes the flavors unintegrated and takes away the cohesion. Be warned though, it’s a strange beast and I’ve still not decided if i like it. If you like Jura, I think you will like this because it is Jura times 1000. Super interesting whisky, nothing like any Jura you’ve had. There is a strange disconnect with the heaviness of the nose and the mouthfeel and finish but that makes it super interesting. Mouth feel is not as heavy as the nose but the finish is long. It is very saline – Imagine a horse and a salt lick. Crafted in exceptionally tall stills, matured for 10 years in America White Oak ex-bourbon barrels and the fresh sea air with a further enhancement from the. Second sip becomes heavier and progresses and builds on itself.
Licorice, herbal and distinct heavy salinity. The yeastiness is prevailing, cereal notes too. Imagine a piece of stake mating with a pot of burnt sugar – then you get some dry and burnt tobacco, Spanish cedar but an unrelenting savoriness to it. The palate is equally as strange as the nose. The bitter cherry comes out after a few nosing attempts, but it is like a piece of meat in liquid form with mud thrown all over it with a hint of minerality. Yeasty, meaty, earthy through and through.
There is fatty notes, oily and reminds me of a spoonful of bovril and pork rinds with black pepper. This whisky is one one of the most unusual whiskies I’ve nosed. Extreme earthiness, unusual straight away – No hiding that fact. Wow, distinct smokiness and savoriness to that. Adelphi, as a tier one bottler and jura by Adelphi – well…Gotta try it! (Tasted neat from a 1920s blenders Glass) Color I have not been able to say this much recently, but this malt is definitely worth the $65 or so that it retails for.Jura, A distillery I find rather… boring, sometimes even offensive and to be honest do not like and that is exactly why I purchased this bottle! Jura is an old fashioned distillery providing spirits for their own bottlings and a lot of blended whisky. It is not intense nor challenging, but it is complex enough to reward contemplation. Jura has a lot of ardent admirers, and I can see why. This would be excellent with a mild cigar. Flawless in execution, sweet and mild on the tongue, with a moderately perfumed aroma. Water is not needed here, but does add something interesting. With Water: Several drops of water draw out a bit more of the eccentric aspects of the sherry, namely a leather note, and some lemon peel, which continues through the palate and finish as extra tartness. A final wave of very mild citrus – just pith, maybe – and a ghost of bitterness. Ladylike, even.įinish: The heather notes return, with honey and a bit of oaky tannins. Candied orange peels, tawny fudge, blanched almonds, and marzipan. Palate: Slightly chewy texture, and quite sweet. The fruit is fresh and bright, and backed up by a capable maltiness with breakfast cereal and spongecake. If there’s any Island peat present, it’s in the form of a soft, ferny, heathery aroma in the distance.
Nose: Elegant citrus – grapefruit maybe, or bergamot. The 16 year-old official bottling, also subtitled ‘Diurach’s Own’ after the name for the people of Jura, spends 14 years in ex-bourbon, and then is transferred for 2 years into Amaroso Oloroso sherry casks to finish. Neither is peated, except for some peat that might be in the water used to mash and proof down the bottles. Jura is a little lighter in style and much more floral, while Dalmore is darker, sweeter, and more pungent. The whisky of each is surprisingly similar, with lots of sherry-derived flavor, and some citrus elements. The Isle of Jura distillery is owned by independent bottlers Whyte and MacKay, which also owns Dalmore distillery. Perhaps this harkens back to a time in Scotland when every community of 200 people required its own distillery? Sounds like a place I’d like to live! The tiny island claims only a few hundred inhabitants, and exactly one whisky distillery. The Isle of Jura is within spitting distance of the eastern shore of the island of Islay, off of Scotland’s southwesterly tip.
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