Jura 16 Year Old Perspective No. 01

Jura – or Diùra in Scottish Gaelic, meaning ‘deer island’ – is home to around 200 people and 6,000 red deer. You need two ferries to get a car there from the mainland, and if you do there’s only one road. And yet this is the home of one of the best-selling single malt whiskies in the world (number one in UK off trade).

We’re not sure who had the reins on this one, but Whyte & Mackay (who also own Dalmore and Fettercairn) have expertise in abundance with master whisky makers Gregg Glass (Richard ‘the Nose’ Paterson’s long term successor), and Dr. Kirstie McCallum, plus Jura’s new whisky maker Joe Ricketts. This is the first in a new series to showcase and amplify elements of the distillery’s house style and bottle them at natural colour, without chill-filtration, and at a higher strength. A soft, fruit sipper matured in bourbon casks, and finished in Oloroso sherry casks.