![]() Sweet and smooth, this one lends itself to dessert.Īside from simplicity, my other reservation is that a couple years ago I was offered a sample of this in a Duty Free shop, and at that time I was less impressed with the 16 than with the 10. You might even call this one "uninteresting" if you're looking for complexity (the main reason for a lower score). Their palates both evoke caramel (very smooth and somewhat sweet) but the Original's is more black pepper and apricot, whereas Diurach's Own offers more straightforward honey and a touch of vanilla. Their aromas are similar, except the Original has more salt & soil, whereas the Diurach's Own has honey & grass. This warrants comparison with the 10yo/Original, the other non-peated sibling. Joined softly by salty vanilla, and fades to grapefruit pith. Palate: Enters sweet with honey., then a wave of gingery oil (with the honey) then becoming smoother and vanilla creamy- still with ample honey.įinish: Rather like the palate, with honey lingering gingerly. ![]() With more time, it develops elements of sweet grass and faint nectarine (citric peach). Nose#2: Toning down to that idiosyncratic "Jura aroma" I described in the other reviews (dried-apricot/beer/cheese), except that it is now richly enhanced with honey butter. Nose#1: Thick and sweet on first pour- caramel fudge as it opens. Now onto the 4th and final, the 16yo, which has the official title of "Diurach's Own" to signify that it is the drink-of-choice among the inhabitants of Jura. I earlier reviewed the other 3 of Jura's range (10yo/Original, Superstition, & Prophecy). Good stuff indeed nice light spirit, good balance between youth and age, lovely With water honey, really prominent mocha then it’s gone. With water milk chocolate first, then spicy fruit toast, with honey and toffee interminglingįinish: gentle restrained and short, toffee lasts from the pallet and some nutty tang. Pallet: beautiful smooth luscious body, immediately as you swallow there is some smoke or toasty-ness, milk chocolate, honey, toffee, dried fruits are still kind of there in the background I would say raisin and even a touch of sherry. With water bigger, slightly buttery even, other than that, all the aromas are still there, bread dough is more pronounced and has gone a little tequila-ery, touch of floral too. ![]() Nose: a little closed you really have to go digging for this nose and honey, rich fruit almost fruit cake, bread dough (seemingly the Jura signature) and some toffee. But try it anyways maybe you prefer it.Of the three Jura's i've tried this is by far and away the best and the only one i would recommend to buy a bottle of. Do yourself a favor and don’t add water, it makes the flavors unintegrated and takes away the cohesion. Be warned though, it’s a strange beast and I’ve still not decided if i like it. If you like Jura, I think you will like this because it is Jura times 1000. Super interesting whisky, nothing like any Jura you’ve had. There is a strange disconnect with the heaviness of the nose and the mouthfeel and finish but that makes it super interesting. Mouth feel is not as heavy as the nose but the finish is long. It is very saline – Imagine a horse and a salt lick. Second sip becomes heavier and progresses and builds on itself. Licorice, herbal and distinct heavy salinity. The yeastiness is prevailing, cereal notes too. Imagine a piece of stake mating with a pot of burnt sugar – then you get some dry and burnt tobacco, Spanish cedar but an unrelenting savoriness to it. The palate is equally as strange as the nose. The bitter cherry comes out after a few nosing attempts, but it is like a piece of meat in liquid form with mud thrown all over it with a hint of minerality. Yeasty, meaty, earthy through and through. There is fatty notes, oily and reminds me of a spoonful of bovril and pork rinds with black pepper. This whisky is one one of the most unusual whiskies I’ve nosed. Extreme earthiness, unusual straight away – No hiding that fact. ![]() Wow, distinct smokiness and savoriness to that. Adelphi, as a tier one bottler and jura by Adelphi – well…Gotta try it! (Tasted neat from a 1920s blenders Glass) Color Jura, A distillery I find rather… boring, sometimes even offensive and to be honest do not like and that is exactly why I purchased this bottle! Jura is an old fashioned distillery providing spirits for their own bottlings and a lot of blended whisky.
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