Two Jura

Jura 19 yo 2001/2020 (55%, OB ‘Distillery Cask’, cask #1708, sherry butt, 470 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: it has this rapid and really pleasing ‘gingery’ high quality, which I discover fairly ‘Jura-esque’. Past that notes of caramelised oatmeal, millionaire shortbread, tobacco leaf, mineral oils, leather-based and wee sooty touches. It’s undoubtedly a charismatic spirit when offered in fairly simple, uncomplicated kind like this. Certainly, it turns into a little bit waxier, and extra in the direction of breads, beers and snapped twigs with time. With water: takes on a giant leafy high quality, a lot of moist moss, tree bark, chlorophyll and good petrichor notes. Mouth: fantastic arrival, all on malt extract, shilling beers, aniseed, cough medicines, lanolin and milk chocolate. The sherry is current however elegantly restrained and well-integrated. Extra impressions of shoe leather-based, sunflower oil and turmeric. With water: extra aniseed, fennel, hessian, natural teas, mint and tea tree oil. Very straightforward and reasonably honeyed too. End: good size, on mead, cough medicines, moss, extra honey and ales. Feedback: In case you have this high quality and character of whisky why not attempt to put that extra entrance and centre reasonably than shopping for it underneath the load of all that carpentry. The form of bottling that, had it been an indy launch, I count on would possibly satirically have garnered extra discover. High quality may be very excessive I believe.
SGP: 661 – 87 factors.

Jura 2002/2019 (56.5%, OB ‘Bottle your individual’, cask #2441, sherry)
That is one from the peated batches of Jura, not one thing the indys have so far as I am conscious, however these shares have actually garnered excessive reward in earlier bottlings. Color: gold. Nostril: vastly peaty and fats and virtually greasy. Recollections of this fashion come dashing again and I am reminded of the good previous 5yo OB for The Whisky Alternate. This deeply sooty, smoky, mechanical and turfy manifestation of peat smoke that concerned kippers, TCP and gentian notes. The sherry is nicely built-in too, which is nice information. With water: a extra savoury and ashy smokiness now, bacon frazzling in a pan, smoked mussels in brine, aniseed distillate and mercurochrome. Mouth: big whisky however a restrained arrival resulting from a splendidly syrupy and concentrated texture. Large, oily peat, medicines, pure tar, calmly natural qualities and issues like smoked olive oil, camphor and iodine drops. Direct, uncomplicated, fantastically constructed whisky that gives most sipping pleasure. With water: a lighter contact from the peat now, though nonetheless fairly deeply smoky, notes of cloves, 5 spice, eucalyptus and extra tarry and peppery qualities. End: lengthy, oily peat, tar once more, extra hessian, spices and seawater. Feedback: I’d say some years within the bottle and this is able to add the requisite complexity to cross the 90 level threshold and carry on going. Extraordinarily good whisky and possibly one of the vital underrated trendy makes about, as a result of who is absolutely nattering about peated Jura? Anyway, I’d like to see them make extra of a fuss about these shares.
SGP: 576 – 89 factors.