About Jura 24 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (Signatory Bottling)
Situated sixty miles off the western coast of the Scottish mainland, the Isle of Jura is one of the most sparsely populated islands in Scotland — it boasts 5,000 red deer, 200 human beings, two churches and just one distillery. The Jura Distillery was founded in 1810 by Laird Archibald Campbell, and sits alongside the Corryvreckan Whirlpool. Nearly a century after it was opened, the distillery was dismantled due to a land dispute, and remained closed until 1963.
"It was our intention to produce a Highland-type malt differing from the typically peaty stuff last produced in 1900." said Delme' Evans, the architect and master distiller who set about restoring the distillery to its original glory in the 1960s. "My primary aim was to construct an economic distillery within the space available. Everything had to be simple and done by hand." Today, the Jura Distillery represents a fusion of modern distillation techniques with traditional craftsmanship, and remains one of the most remote and isolated distilleries on the planet.
Jura Single Malt Scotch Whisky is made from Scottish barley, which is milled at the distillery and mashed with hot water in order to release its natural sugars. Once the barley has been mashed, it is fermented and then distilled twice through Jura's 28-foot tall copper-pot stills. The stills' unusual size and shape emphasizes the high esther notes of the barley, and produces a noticeably lighter and fruitier whisky.
Jura 24 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (Signatory Bottling) was distilled on December 17, 1989. It was matured for 8,796 days in a cask that was previously used to mature bourbon (Cask # 30744). On January 16, 2014, it was bottled at cask strength. As a result, the whisky has an aroma of honeyed oak, cinnamon, brown sugar and maple syrup that gives way to notes of creamy vanilla, citrus, cloves and ginger on the palate. The finish is rich and complex, with a hint of spice.
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About Scotch
Scotch is the most popular whisky in the world and is considered the king of them all! There are five whisky regions in Scotland (six if you count the not officially recognized Islands), and each of them produces spirits with unique properties and distinct tasting notes. (The type of grain used determents the type of the scotch.)
Malt whisky is made of malted barley, and grain whisky uses other grains like corn or wheat. Most of the time, a whisky is blended from different distilleries hence the name blended scotch, but if a malt whisky is produced in a single distillery, we get something extraordinary called a single malt.
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