![]() ![]() I heard of languages being learned, podcast starting, and pets being adopted among many other skills and interests. I really appreciate hearing how friends and colleagues adjusted to the lock-down by trying to utilize the time at home to learn and do new things. I find it to be an interesting parallel between Orwell needing solitude and isolation to be able to complete his novel and the recent isolation some of us felt during the pandemic. The Isle Of Jura is also known for The Paps of Jura, and as being the location where George Orwell escaped the noise and distraction to finish his classic dystopian novel 1984. With one road, one distillery, one pub, one shop and one community it has often been described as. ![]() The Isle is also well known for its red deer population, which numbers close to 6,000, although I believe that they have less to do with the distillery’s operation. The Isle of Jura is nestled off the West Coast of Scotland. The occupations of the 200 or so residents, for the most part, have something to do with the distillery. The distillery has only recently begun producing small amounts of peated malt for the single-cask market. One distillery, one road, one pub, one hotel, one shop, and one whirlpool. But new or old, this is still an unmistakable Jura whisky with the lactic vanilla and the wood notes (love it or hate it).Jura, however, is known for one. 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. 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. 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. Quality Synthetic Lawn in Fawn Creek, Kansas will provide you with much more than a green turf and a means of conserving water. 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. 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 □ ). ![]()
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