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| Hello, that is one among our (virtually) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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October 8, 2024
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A wee choice of Jura whiskies of the best high quality
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Bear in mind Isle of Jura is #1 within the UK.
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Jura 16 yo ‘Perspective No.01’ (46.5%, OB, bourbon + oloroso, 2024) 
A moderately conceptual new launch, with ‘labels which can be by no means precisely the identical’. Effectively, not less than that’s what I consider I’ve understood. The ending in oloroso casks lasted 4 years, so it’s extra of a secondary maturation, actually. Color: mild gold. Nostril: very fruity, easy-going, and moderately seductive, with a light-weight muscat-like word, acacia honey, mirabelles, and apricots, adopted by a contact of camphor, chlorophyll, and cane sugar. You received’t discover any of that barely ‘soiled’ Jura DNA right here, however that’s not a criticism. Mouth: actually superb, mushy however energetic, nonetheless easy-going, malty, honeyed, and stuffed with very ripe yellow fruits, then comes the anticipated walnut, as you’d think about after 4 years in an oloroso cask. End: medium size, candy, jammy (plums), with a contact of walnut cake within the aftertaste, and a faint mustardy and smoky edge. That will be the distillate reminding us of the place it comes from. Feedback: a richer, sweeter Jura than many others. No denying it’s very, very nicely made.
SGP:641 – 86 factors. |
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Jura 1989/2023 (47%, S Spirits Store Choice, hogshead, cask #1113, 259 bottles) 
With a surprising dragon-turtle gracing the label, one wonders if it’s as consultant of the liquid inside, which has had practically 35 years to develop? Value noting, Jura additionally made peated whisky in 1989… In truth, the official ‘Uncommon Classic’ 1989/2019 was completely excellent (WF 91). Color: white wine. Nostril: basic Jura. Flint, mustard, white flowers, leather-based, bark, inexperienced walnuts, crushed slate, a touch of rubber, recent vinyl information, bitter oranges… Magnificent! Mouth: oh sure, quintessential Jura. A lot drier in comparison with the brand new 16-year-old. Satan’s sauce, salt, tobacco, mustard and walnuts, soot, paraffin, wrinkled previous apples, bitter oranges, even a barely fatty oyster… End: medium size, with notes of tobacco, leather-based, walnuts, orange zest, and bitter chocolate. One can solely bow in respect. Feedback: a powerful Jura. Wait, 1989 was actually thirty-five years in the past?
SGP:462 – 90 factors. |
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Isle of Jura 30 yo 1994/2024 (46%, Whisky Sponge, Decadent Drinks, refill hogshead, 203 bottles)
The Sponge already had an excellent 1991+1994 again in 2021 (WF 91), so expectations are moderately excessive for this one. Color: white wine. Nostril: a greasier take, extra according to a fantastic white wine, with notes of rhubarb, white flowers, steel polish, basalt, paraffin, and grapefruit. Briefly, it’s an awesomely basic Jura nostril, leaning barely in the direction of the old-school type. Mouth: peppery, earthy, with coal mud, paraffin, that childhood reminiscence of consuming modelling clay, a contact of plaster, honeycomb, grapefruit, and a touch of banana. Every little thing’s simply spot on. End: very lengthy, with a incredible bitterness, orange peel, inexperienced pepper, tobacco, and aged mead… Feedback: I really feel like these unbelievable previous Juras fly a bit beneath the radar, but they’re completely magnificent, providing a deep and complicated fragrant expertise. I see from some previous notes that I’ve in contrast them to St. Magdalene earlier than. Sure, that’s precisely it (self-congratulation, there’s nothing worse, S.)
SGP:462 – 91 factors. |
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Alright, let’s end with some youthful ones…
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Jura 16 yo 2006/2023 (54.2%, Whisky Age, cask #8001643, barrel, 214 bottles) 
This one must be moderately good too. Color: white wine. Nostril: it’s a bit just like the Sponge, however youthful and a tad much less advanced, but with these beautiful notes of aubergine and artichoke, banana pores and skin, porridge, soot, a contact of mustard once more, grapefruit, and some drops of bière de garde. Completely nothing to do with the brand new official 16-year-old, reverse type. With water: a stunning abundance of moist chalk and porridge, with a little bit of eucalyptus thrown in. It virtually looks like a Trappist whisky – if such a factor have been to exist. Mouth (neat): oily, with wax, inexperienced pepper, zesty notes, rubber, citrus, soot, and that barely ‘soiled’ aspect of a ‘actual’ Jura. With water: glorious, with some menthol rising. Touches of previous walnuts which were left down within the cellar, proper between the coal pile and the oil tank. End: lengthy, on inexperienced apple, paraffin, inexperienced pepper, and fruit peelings. A touch of heather honey and a grain of salt within the aftertaste. Feedback: a marvellous Jura, very ‘Jura’ certainly (no kidding, S.?).
SGP:562 – 89 factors. |
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Isle of Jura 10 yo 2014/2024 (55.6%, Maltbarn, bourbon cask, 263 bottles)
From Maltbarn’s newest collection, with their at all times pleasant up to date neo-retro-futurist labels (what?). Color: straw. Nostril: the distillate shines via, with its fermentary character, alongside chalk, mustard, inexperienced apple, soot, paraffin, and leather-based… nothing to complain about! With water: comparable, however now with extra basalt and a definite limestone high quality, like moist limestone after a rain bathe. Mouth (neat): very energetic, bursting with lemon, virtually like concentrated lemon juice blended with a splash of seawater and clay. With water: just about the identical, glorious, with that marvellous saline high quality that when once more reminds us of a cracking manzanilla. All we’d like now’s a mountain of langostinos con ajo. End: lengthy and severely salty, with only a trace of garlic within the aftertaste. Feedback: how beautiful is that this at solely ten years!
SGP:462 – 88 factors. |
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Like its cousin Fettercairn, Jura is constantly gaining factors on WF for the time being… This additionally demonstrates, in each circumstances and as soon as extra, how unbiased bottlers can contribute to strengthening the picture of a distillery, supplied they’re allowed to attribute their whiskies to mentioned distillery.
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 Test the index of all Jura we have tasted thus far
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