Jura Seven Wood half bottle (35cl, 42%)
Released in March 2018 as part of the distillery's Signature Series, this expression has been 'influenced' by seven types of cask: American white oak ex-bourbon, Limousin, Troncais, Allier, Vosges, Jupilles and Les Bertranges barrels.
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.