![]() The finish picks up on the peppery, dry aspect of the scent, winding down with some light warmth.Įxpect a 750ml bottle of Jura 10 Year Old to run you $50. Once again, it’s simple stuff, so simple that it’s missing some elements that were present on the nose and without anything new taking up the gap. On the palate, it’s got a silky texture, and a flavor that smacks of malty cereals and apples, with just a touch of anise to make things interesting. It’s a simple, but well-rounded and balanced scent, and very much in tune with what one might imagine for an Islands single malt. The nose has a soft, sweetly honeyed cereal base, joined with dabs of peat smoke, pepper and dry oak. The liquid is somewhat viscous, leaving just a few legs after a swish and those resembling the veins of a leaf. In the glass, Jura 10 Year Old has a lightly coppered, golden appearance, something like apple juice. Finally, the whisky is now known to be aged in ex-bourbon barrels and finished in Sherry butts. The American bottling is 40% ABV, just like the rest of the world. Now the “Origin” is gone, so it’s simply Jura 10 Year Old. ![]() ![]() Once upon a time there were two versions of this release, a 43% ABV, 750ml bottling for the American market and a 40% ABV, 70cl bottling for the rest of the world, and both were once titled “Origin.” 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. It’s presently part of the Whyte & Mackay portfolio, which in turn is owned by the Filipino company Emperador (itself part of Alliance Global Group). Jura Distillery dates back to 1810, before the easing of restrictions on distillation under the Excise Act of 1823 that effectively legalized Scotch production. It’s a mountainous and boggy island, and it’s main claims to fame are having more deer than people, that George Orwell retreated there to write 1984 and its whisky distillery. Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides, north of and adjacent to Islay. But try it anyways maybe you prefer it.It’s been a while since we’ve touched on Jura single malts (several years for me in particular), so I think a little reintroduction is in order. Do yourself a favor and don’t add water, it makes the flavors unintegrated and takes away the cohesion. Be warned though, it’s a strange beast and I’ve still not decided if i like it. If you like Jura, I think you will like this because it is Jura times 1000. Super interesting whisky, nothing like any Jura you’ve had. There is a strange disconnect with the heaviness of the nose and the mouthfeel and finish but that makes it super interesting. Mouth feel is not as heavy as the nose but the finish is long. It is very saline – Imagine a horse and a salt lick. Second sip becomes heavier and progresses and builds on itself. Licorice, herbal and distinct heavy salinity. The yeastiness is prevailing, cereal notes too. Imagine a piece of stake mating with a pot of burnt sugar – then you get some dry and burnt tobacco, Spanish cedar but an unrelenting savoriness to it. The palate is equally as strange as the nose. The bitter cherry comes out after a few nosing attempts, but it is like a piece of meat in liquid form with mud thrown all over it with a hint of minerality. Yeasty, meaty, earthy through and through. There is fatty notes, oily and reminds me of a spoonful of bovril and pork rinds with black pepper. This whisky is one one of the most unusual whiskies I’ve nosed. Extreme earthiness, unusual straight away – No hiding that fact. Wow, distinct smokiness and savoriness to that. Adelphi, as a tier one bottler and jura by Adelphi – well…Gotta try it! (Tasted neat from a 1920s blenders Glass) Color Jura, A distillery I find rather… boring, sometimes even offensive and to be honest do not like and that is exactly why I purchased this bottle! Jura is an old fashioned distillery providing spirits for their own bottlings and a lot of blended whisky.
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