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The bourbon casks are doing good job here imparting vanilla and fruitiness and the peat balanced it to a rounded expression. Thoughts: Jura Journey is exactly what it was intended to be – a simple and basic Jura.
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Palate: Somewhat thin, soft peat smoke, vanilla and soft fruitiness led by pears and a bit of green apples, oak spices and bitterness towards the end.įinish: Medium length, gentle peat smoke, lingering oak spices bitterness, dryness, honey and bit of vanilla. After a few minutes more lactic and vanilla and slightly damp wood. There’s damp wood staves, smoked pears, nectarines and buttery apple toffee.
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Nose: At first the soft peat smoke is strong but then it recedes to the background and the familiar Jura note of lactic vanilla rises up. Like stated above, it’s a NAS offering (so probably lots of young spirit), and bottled at 40% and probably chill-filtered. Obviously I was curious to see how did all those changes impacted the whiskies and taste them so let’s start with the entry level offering – Jura Journey. No more exclusively unpeated or peated Jura in the core line up. It’s quite a bold move, ain’t it so? It’s not only that the expressions changed, the whisky itself is now using a combination of peated an unpeated spirit across the entire lineup. Jura 18 Year Old – finished in red wine casks after 18 years in American oak casks.Jura Seven Wood – A no-age-statement matured in seven types of French oak and first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels.Jura 12 Year Old – Finished in Oloroso Sherry casks after 12 years in American white casks.Jura 10 Year Old – Already launched in US during 2017 and now globally.Jura Journey – A no-age-statement offering, matured exclusively in American oak barrels.Instead we have a new line up consisting 5 new offers: So no more Origin (10 Year Old), Superstition, Diurach’s 16 Year Old and Prophecy.
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We don't know if the old woman is planning a return visit but a bottle of 16 year old, the islander's favorite, is always left in a secret cave deep in the bowels of the island, just to make sure she doesn't.Earlier this year, Jura Distillery, owned by Whyte & Mackay, totally revamped the core line up after replacing their Travel Retail offers last October (bye bye Turas Mara ? ). The standard tour runs twice a day, while specialist tours (£15 to £25) take you deeper into the production process and should be booked in advance. By 1963 their work was complete and the fortune of the island had changed, the distillery had offered new employment and the island began to flourish once again, Delme-Evans had introduced taller stills allowing the distillery to create an eclectic mix of malts, a feature that helped differentiate Jura from its island neighbours. There arent a whole lot of indoor attractions on the island of Jura apart from visiting the Isle of Jura Distillery. It wasn't until the 1950's when, in a bid to entice new inhabitants to the island, two local estate owners Robin Fletcher and Tony Riley-Smith rebuilt the distillery, employing a genius by the name of Delme-Evans to weave some architectural magic. A victim of neglect and economic gloom, it wasn't long before the distillery fell into disrepair. It was this apparition that persuaded him to reverse this punitive measure and erect a distillery at an old smugglers' cave in the hamlet of Craighouse in 1810. She berated him over the lack of the golden liquid on the island. Alas, all good things come to an end and meddling politicians introduced a ban in 1781.Ģ9 years later, as legend has it, Laird Archibald Campbell awoke sober, it must be said in the middle of the night to see the ghostly figure of an old woman hovering over his bed. Many moons ago, the Diurachs were entitled to distil whisky for personal consumption. On an island just 7 miles wide and 30 miles long, there is but one road, one hotel and one distillery.