It’s a release of 201 bottles (so more than likely single cask territory), at 48.2% ABV. And so, stay tuned in 2022 – after all this time of saying nothing, in preparing for today’s review, I thought of some things worth saying.ĭay 18’s dram is Jura 20 year old Batch 5. Jura has a fandom like many other distilleries – and there are many aspects of its production, mindset and approach that all bear closer examination. However, now that I’m ‘forced’ into breaking my Jura fast to continue the 2021 Boutique-y whisky Advent rundown – I guess that should be the end of this silliness. Whisky is enjoyment and writing about whisky should come with its own (different) enjoyment otherwise, put the pen down. And so, I’ve just both consciously and subconsciously left it alone until now. I've not really wanted to be any part of that. That distain has in my view affected a whole generation of drinkers - you don’t have to look far to see folks mocking the distillery and its expressions - often without ever have sampled them. None of these whiskies have yet inspired me to want to write about Jura - and certainly not in the same terms that most blogs approach the distillery – with distain. But the operative word here is still ‘quite’. There’s been a recent spate of older (25-30+) expressions that have got mouth’s wagging. But let’s be clear here – that’s not me positioning the distillery as the outlier that I clearly have by not reviewing it – there’s several producers whose spirit style sadly isn’t really my bag – modern Bladnoch immediately springs to mind. Of the ones I didn’t dislike, I’m still far from convinced that Jura is generally to my taste. Enjoying the odd bottle out of hundreds is many miles away from becoming a convert and an evangelist. And over the years, whilst I’ve certainly not made a concerted beeline to the distillery, I have nevertheless bought a reasonable number of bottles and sampled a fairly broad selection of Jura drams in an attempt to explore the aromas and flavours produced from the island of the same name. Which leads to the obvious question – “Have you been deliberately avoiding Jura Matt?” The answer being – “kinda.”Ī Jura (think it was an early 2000s 10 year old, but don’t quote me on that – memory is a fickle thing) was amongst the earliest bottles I sampled when I started my whisky journey. That’s honestly a little embarrassing after all these years – but then, looking down our corpus of distilleries, there’s still a small number of Scotch producers we’ve not yet turned to. Turns out this will be the first Jura review on The Dramble.
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