If you’re a real jura man, get this one if your pockets are deep enough. Only problem : It’s rare,500 bottles for the entire market, and not cheap at £499 (but hey, it’s 35 years old,and we do not get a lot of such old Jura bottlings). What a delightful bottling to celebrate a remarkable career. When they aren’t embracing their intricately crafted whiskys Jura is sure to mention that George Orwell wrote his long standing classic 1984 amidst the isolation of the Scottish isle of the same name.
This very limited release from Jura celebrates the. Spicy, zingy, with a great chocolate backbone. The Isle of Jura is famed for a number of reasons, but one of the most well known is that it was where George Orwell wrote his classic novel 1984. So different than the Balvenie i tried before, but as classy. With a lot of milk chocolate.That is indeed a finish to savour. Palate: pomegranate, yes it’s holiday season but I insist! Bitter chocolate, stewed fruits, pudding and spicy liquor.įinish: sugared orange peel, Xmas pudding. Nose : old wooden closet, honey and traces of cinnamon and oranges and a light zesty lemon. If you are superstitious or not, this 1976 dram is very promising, and exciting, I love trying older Juras (the 21 year old i did was excellent). It is a special whisky that was first laid down in 1976 and has since been quietly matured in three fresh-run hogshead American White Oak casks which give us the continuity in spirit and taste that we are looking for’ Willie Cochrane, Jura Distiller comments on the new release: ‘There has always been a link between the rowan tree and the islanders over the generations so what better way for us to commemorate that bond than bringing out a whisky. Bringing good fortune to the Islanders over the years, sprigs of the rowan are placed over doorways to ward off lightening, carried on boats to keep storms away and are even fixed to cattle sheds to protect livestock. This new limited edition expression ‘Feith A’ Chaorainn’ is named after the rowan tree as the translation literally means ‘the lands around the rowan’. Many of the Islanders are superstitious in nature believing amongst others that peat should never be cut before May, that haystacks should only be built clockwise and that the rowan tree can bring good luck to them. The 1976 ‘Feith A’ Chaorainn’ vintage is the latest rare whisky to be released by the Jura distillery.Īs we all know Jura is famed for its strong superstitions (see my earlier notes of the Superstition and Prophecy), mystical legends and of course its single malts. who would have thought i would be tasting it 35 years later ha? Lucky me! a wee baby, and at the same moment, some lovely spirit is distilled thousands of miles away on the isle of Jura.
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