Very drying.Ī very very nice dram with the fruit, soot, smoke, peat and dryness at the end. Palate : spicy with quite some ginger up front then getting much sweeter with honey like qualities, barley sugars, much more earthy peat than suggested on the nose, with a bitter chocolate twist.įinish : Bitter dark chocolate, peat, soot. A certain earthiness and peat with wood spices and maybe a hint of mint too. Berry’s own Isle of Jura 1976, 35 yo ,53.5% abv. Hence, i was really keen on tasting this one. I will always have a warm spot in my heart for this place, and having tasted a few Jura whiskies as they should be tasted (No chill filtration, no colouring, Cask strength) I know this liquid can be amazing. The Isle of jura is a wee little place, I’ve written about in length in the past after my visit to the island and the lovely distillery located on it (see Part A, Part B). And here i am sampling it out of context, but it sure sounded too yummy not to include in one of my impromptu tasting sessions. & Rudd twitter tasting organized by Steve of the whisky Wire, but because of many factors mainly incompetence of TNT international, and their Israeli branch (Never use TNT for sending samples, never!) i got the samples only a few days AFTER the event took place. More recently still, the Outer Hebrides have got in on the act with the opening of the small Abhainn Dearg operation on Lewis in 2008, and there are plans for new distilleries on Harris and Barra, too, in the years ahead.A few weeks ago I was to participate in a Berry Bros. As long as the history of island distilling is ( Highland Park was established in 1798), the current Jura plant was only built in the 1960s, and distilling returned to Arran in 1995 after an absence of 160 years. The plans for Shetland hint at a broader trend in these far-flung island locations: new beginnings. Orkney is home to two distilleries: Highland Park and Scapa Spirit of renewal Further north still, the Shetland Distillery Company plans to start making whisky in 2015 at Saxa Vord, on Unst. Moving north and east and crossing the Pentland Firth, we hit Orkney and a contrasting pair of malts: Highland Park’s richly sweet peatiness and Scapa’s gentle fruit. If such a disparate collection of distilleries has a heart, it is the Inner Hebrides, which apart from Islay includes Skye, home to Talisker’s mix of peat and pepper Jura’s eponymous malty slow burner and on Mull, gale-lashed Tobermory’s fruity malt, alongside its smoky alter ego, Ledaig. They’re also the most scattered collection of distillery locations, from Arran in the south to Lewis in the north-west and Orkney (plus soon Shetland) in the north. The Islands classification of single malt whiskies is a category of convenience, since these distilleries officially fall under the Highland denomination. Island whiskies vary from light and delicate to robust and full-bodied Far and wide Het milde klimaat, het zachte water uit de diverse bronnen en het omringende zeewater bepalen het karakter van deze malt. Just a scattered handful of these far-flung facilities remain now (excluding Islay) – although a few newcomers hint at an island distilling renaissance. Jura single malt whisky bereikt zijn volle ontwikkeling na een zorgvuldig bepaalde rijpingsperiode in eikenhouten fusten. Scotland’s labyrinthine archipelago of islands were obvious locations for distilleries, especially at a time when illegal operations were the norm.
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