Jura 21 Year Old Special Edition (70cl, 44%) ***sold***
From the jewel of the Scottish Islands - Isle of Jura, it is a piece of the spirit of 1810, the founding year of the distillery that resonates in every drop of the unique Jura 21.
This Jura single malt whisky leads on from Jura's 200th anniversary edition, and has been well aged for 21 years and presented in a box with a display plinth. Bottled in honour of the date the distillery was founded in 1810, the vintage casks used give this whisky a fantastic quality - this is now a discontinued expression.
Previously discontinued in 2009, it's great to see Isle of Jura 21 Year Old back, and in award-winning form.
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.