This 19 year old sherried finish cask malt was distilled in 1984 to commemorate the George Orwell masterpiece "Nineteen eighty-four", which he penned during his stay on the Island of Jura. 

A 19 Year Old single malt from the Isle of Jura, produced in honour of George Orwell's iconic novel, 1984, which he wrote while staying on the island. Very appropriately, it was distilled in the year 1984, and saw a finish in Palo Cortado Oloroso sherry casks before it was bottled in 2003, with an outturn of 4,800 bottles. 

The Isle of Jura is one of the most isolated in the Hebridean archipelago, and by all logical accounts an unusual place to build a distillery. However, the historic site was re-opened in the 1960s, in part to provide jobs to what was a declining population at the time. The rebuilding of the distillery was backed by blenders Charles Mackinlay & Co, so like Bruichladdich, despite the island being covered in peat, it produced an un-peated spirit to meet the needs of their blends. This continued into the 1990s when Whyte & Mackay became its owners, although they did eventually introduce some peated malt to their distilling, launching the Jura Superstition in 2003.