Isle of Jura is smoking hot

Posted on August 29, 2007
Filed Under For the collector, Islands, WhiskyBuzz |

This summer, Isle of Jura has released a heavily peated special limited edition commemorative bottling for the Crinan Classic Boat Festival 2007.

I personally love the peated touch and according to our polls many more of you do. So, this beauty that comes from cask number 24 should light up on your face. The 1999 Heavily Peated is Distilled on the 18th of January the same year. It was re-racked from American White Oak in September 2004 into an Oloroso Vina 2a Sherry butt from Gonzalez Byass. It’s original strength is 63.5% and then bottled at 52.1%.

Tasting note according to Juras website:

COLOUR – Copper gold with honeyed highlights.

NOSE – A phenolic explosion like an Autumn bonfire coupled with a seductive tang of damp salt and peat drawn from Small Isles Bay.

PALATE – Reduce with soft still water. Not for the faint hearted. Feel the full force of sharp winds and driving rain in your face as this complex malt rolls over the palate to reveal its character of smoke, peat, tar rope and hints of lemon gorse.

Find more information on how to get your hands on a bottle or two over at Isle of Jura’s website.