Complex flavours of dried fruits, hazelnuts and ripe bananas initially emerge and slowly give way to the elegance and charm of the great American white oak – Quercus alba. Individual yet assertive the hand of time has made its mark on this exceptionally rare Jura. A whisper of dried salty seaweed and lemon tea completes this breath taking experience. Subtle hints of soft creamy fudge, pineapple and freshly baked bread swiftly follow through. Rich golden amber with shimmering sandy bottom, glassy highlights.Ĭlose your eyes and feel a gentle breeze of pine nuts, gorse and crushed apples drifting into play. Softens into a mix of grass, nuts, bung cloth. Sweet at the start and the finish and nutty on the centre with a lightly gripping almost peppery edge.
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Lighter to start than you expect, but very open allowing you to see into the dram more easily.
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With water, there’s coffee and liquorice and thick-cut Old English marmalade. Nutty (roast almond) with some spice (mace) and as it opens a balsamic/rancio note that brings to mind dried porcini mushrooms. Rich vanilla with peaches, apricots, raisins, with rich red fruit, carefully poised rich-dry balance, then a wave of digestive biscuit maltiness.įruity, almost PX like, but with a hint of the farmyard (silage) that you get from mature whiskies. Vanilla, raisins, gingerbread, rich and intense, plums and red fruit with a background waft of oak, then apricots and peaches. The finest Isle of Jura I have ever tasted!. It retains some of Jura’s distillery character – or its spirit of place – while the wood adds layers of depth. Cloves lingering in the after-taste.Ĭomplex, unique and very interesting. Lively, and leaves a tingling sensation and a mineral-like after-taste. Sweet and somewhat acidic centre palate dries slightly in the medium-length, warming finish. (straight) Oily, unusually salty, with distinct cloves. Dont want to buy Jura 22 Year Old One for the Road online You can also order by phone on 01 or drop by our Edinburgh Whisky Shop where our expert staff will be happy to give you guidance. Water adds a sewing-machine-oil note cloves come to the foreground, and a scorched-cloth (ironing board) note behind, which also reminds me of treacle toffee. Jura 22 Year Old One for the Road is an official bottling which was produced in the Islands region of Scotland.
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Reduced Maritime and mineral notes persist. Later almonds and almond oil, then cloves and boat varnish. Overall rich and nose-drying, with moist fruit-cake, maraschino cherries and dried fruits swollen in liquor. (straight) Unusual nose: at first maritime (salt crystals, hot sand, dessicated bladder-wrack).