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| Hello, that is considered one of our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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October 8, 2024
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A wee number of Jura whiskies of the very best high quality
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Keep 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 reasonably conceptual new launch, with ‘labels which can be by no means precisely the identical’. Nicely, at the least that’s what I imagine 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 reasonably seductive, with a lightweight muscat-like observe, 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 grievance. Mouth: actually excellent, smooth 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 may 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 actual fact, the official ‘Uncommon Classic’ 1989/2019 was completely excellent (WF 91). Color: white wine. Nostril: traditional Jura. Flint, mustard, white flowers, leather-based, bark, inexperienced walnuts, crushed slate, a touch of rubber, recent vinyl data, 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 reasonably excessive for this one. Color: white wine. Nostril: a greasier take, extra in keeping with a fantastic white wine, with notes of rhubarb, white flowers, metallic polish, basalt, paraffin, and grapefruit. In brief, it’s an awesomely traditional Jura nostril, leaning barely in direction of the old-school fashion. 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. All the pieces’s simply spot on. End: very lengthy, with a improbable bitterness, orange peel, inexperienced pepper, tobacco, and aged mead… Feedback: I really feel like these unimaginable previous Juras fly a bit beneath the radar, but they’re completely magnificent, providing a deep and sophisticated 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 needs to be reasonably good too. Color: white wine. Nostril: it’s a bit just like the Sponge, however youthful and a tad much less complicated, 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 fashion. With water: a beautiful abundance of moist chalk and porridge, with a little bit of eucalyptus thrown in. It nearly looks like a Trappist whisky – if such a factor had been to exist. Mouth (neat): oily, with wax, inexperienced pepper, zesty notes, rubber, citrus, soot, and that barely ‘soiled’ facet of a ‘actual’ Jura. With water: wonderful, 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 modern neo-retro-futurist labels (what?). Color: straw. Nostril: the distillate shines by means of, 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, nearly like concentrated lemon juice blended with a splash of seawater and clay. With water: just about the identical, wonderful, with that marvellous saline high quality that after once more reminds us of a cracking manzanilla. All we want now could be a mountain of langostinos con ajo. End: lengthy and significantly 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 persistently gaining factors on WF for the time being… This additionally demonstrates, in each instances and as soon as extra, how impartial bottlers can contribute to strengthening the picture of a distillery, offered 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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