This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 27 August, 2020. TASTE: Flaovurs of honey, salted bananas and brown sugar, with a whisper of smoke NOSE: Refined succulent tropical aromas of chocolate, walnut and citrus fruit The Isle of Jura Distillery Co., Craighouse, Isle of Jura, Country of Origin. 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 finest aged Oloroso Sherry casks from Jerez, Spain.Īmerican ex-Bourbon casks, Spanish ex-Oloroso casks Isle of Jura 12 Years is a whisky matured in barrels that have contained Bourbon and then Oloroso barrels.Ī whisky only Jura could make, born of our island and still produced today in a bottle originally shaped to withstand the roughest of journeys from our home.
Medicinal and herbaceous tones punctuate here and there.More information Isle of Jura 12 Years Whisky However, the balance is good, the play of light and shadow stimulates, especially considering the background of coffee and chocolate that enriches the experience. The fact that it has a larger population of deer than people might speak to the open, quiet spaces that attracted the writer when he needed solitude. Like that island known for its peaty whisky, Jura is home to its own whisky distillery, and some might know it as the island where George Orwell wrote the novel, 1984. The fruit is an intricate interplay between citrus fruits, dates, raisins, all dried fruit of this world, and caramel’s honeyed and titillating tone. Baltimore Spirits Company’s inventory runs the gamut from amari to gin, and, of course, rye whiskey. Isle of Jura Prophecy Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a limited release whisky that is made by marrying together ancient vintages of the whisky in order to approximate the flavor of the Jura expressions in the 19th century. The island of Jura sits next-door to a much more famous member of the Hebrides, Islay. The bouquetĪn ambitious and cheeky nose that makes wealth a boast. The result is an impeccable whisky, with a very broad and demanding aromatic profile: it is rich, enveloping, but never complacent or redundant, the aromas and flavors of citrus fruits are always ready to cut across the sweetness. Jura 10 Year Old is the core expression in the distillery’s single malt line, and has gone through at least three changes of appearance and titling since my first exposure to Jura 10 Year Old some years ago.
And precisely this refinement indelibly marks the Elixir whisky: if the base is savory and sharp, the blend of woods rounds and adds glorious notes of caramel, roasting, toffee, but also the nutty and medicinal notes of sherry, One road, one shop, one hotel and one pub welcome to Jura. Double distillation, heads and tails are discarded and then the distillate spends 12 years of aging in barrels previously used for bourbon and sherry. The processing is classic, malt and pure water, the mash is made, fermented and then distilled in discontinuous copper stills. But this does not mean that it is not an exhilarating and deep whisky, on the contrary, the spicy tones and the excellent balance between the freshness, the ripe and decadent fruit that takes on the oxidized flavors of dried fruit and raisins, is intriguing and maintains the always tonic taste.Īs you well know, the single malt scotches of the Isle of Jura distillery are the children of a legendary master distiller, the brilliant Richard Paterson, one of the stars of the Scottish still.
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