Jura 12 Year Old 2006

Single cask sherry butt expression of the Island distillery situated on the edge of the Atlantic. Leather, tobacco, porridge, sweet spices and barley sugar; what a treat! Jura 12 Year Old 2006 vintage Island single malt Scotch whisky. Single sherry butt #15182 bottled 2018 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the First Editions series. 267 bottles. A big and initially sweet nose followed by grist and cereal. The palate reveals sweet barley, vanilla, oak and spice whereas the finish has more sweet barley, spice and porridge. The first Isle of Jura Distillery was built at Craighouse on the Isle of Jura off the west coast of Scotland in 1810 but closed in 1901 and was subsequently demolished. The present Isle of Jura Distillery, was designed by William Delmé Evans and opened in 1963, is equipped with four stills and produces mainly un-peated whiskey with a little peated produced once each year. The Jura participates in Feis Ile, the Islay Festival of Malt and Music. Jura Superstition, Jura Prophecy and Jura 21 Year Old are included in the official distillery releases.

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