Jura 19 Year Old The Paps

Jura is an island with few people (around 200) and one road. It’s largely wild, full of deer, and has a landscape that’s dominated by three mountains known as the Paps of Jura. They can be seen clearly from across the water on Islay (the view from the Caol Ila still house is particularly excellent), but also from as far afield as the Mull of Kintyre, Skye, or even Ireland.

Jura say they put this whisky together to be as striking as The Paps themselves, something no Diùrach (person from Jura) would say lightly. Matured for an impressive 19 years, the whisky started off in American oak bourbon barrels, before being finished in sherry casks of extraordinary quality, having previously held fine 40 year old Pedro Ximénez sherry. This is the pinnacle of Jura’s Sherry Cask Collection, previously only available in global travel retail (i.e. in airports and cruise ships and the like).