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Isle of Jura Distillery
Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distilled : 2014
Bottled : 2024
N* bottles: 263
Serie: Seventies
Strength: 55.6% vol
Size: 70cl
Cask: Bourbon Cask
From Whiskyfun:
From Maltbarn's latest series, with their always delightful contemporary neo-retro-futurist labels (what?). Colour: straw. Nose: the distillate shines through, with its fermentary character, alongside chalk, mustard, green apple, soot, paraffin, and leather… nothing to complain about! With water: similar, but now with more basalt and a distinct limestone quality, like wet limestone after a rain shower. Mouth (neat): very lively, bursting with lemon, almost like concentrated lemon juice mixed with a splash of seawater and clay. With water: pretty much the same, excellent, with that marvellous saline quality that once again reminds us of a cracking manzanilla. All we need now is a mountain of langostinos con ajo. Finish: long and seriously salty, with just a hint of garlic in the aftertaste. Comments: how lovely is this at only ten years!
SGP:462 - 88 points.
From Whiskynotes.be
Nose: rather naked, which is good. Nice fruity notes (green banana, apple, yellow plum) along with gristy notes, lamp oil, paraffin and gravel. Subtle blossomy notes. Then distant leafy notes and a hint of new leather.
Mouth: still a bright fruity layer (lemon, lemon oils and green apples) with a beer-like quality, as well as fresh herbs. Then more of these waxy notes, faint mustard, a little white pepper and a firm coastal element. Biscuit dough underneath. Pleasant austerity, almost a Campbeltown profile at times.
Finish: long, with a firm salinity, along with marmalade and lemon zest, a little oak and cake.
A good Auchentoshan AND a good Jura – this must be our lucky day. Seriously, a young but very characterful Jura whisky, still affordable and a step up from the official bottlings. Score: 88/100
