The nose has a soft, sweetly honeyed cereal base, joined with dabs of peat smoke, pepper and dry oak. The liquid is somewhat viscous, leaving just a few legs after a swish and those resembling the veins of a leaf. In the glass, Jura 10 Year Old has a lightly coppered, golden appearance, something like apple juice. Finally, the whisky is now known to be aged in ex-bourbon barrels and finished in Sherry butts. The American bottling is 40% ABV, just like the rest of the world. Now the “Origin” is gone, so it’s simply Jura 10 Year Old. Once upon a time there were two versions of this release, a 43% ABV, 750ml bottling for the American market and a 40% ABV, 70cl bottling for the rest of the world, and both were once titled “Origin.” Jura 10 Year Old is the core expression in the distillery’s single malt line, and has gone through at least three changes of appearance and titling since my first exposure to Jura 10 Year Old some years ago. It’s presently part of the Whyte & Mackay portfolio, which in turn is owned by the Filipino company Emperador (itself part of Alliance Global Group). Jura Distillery dates back to 1810, before the easing of restrictions on distillation under the Excise Act of 1823 that effectively legalized Scotch production.
It’s a mountainous and boggy island, and it’s main claims to fame are having more deer than people, that George Orwell retreated there to write 1984 and its whisky distillery. Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides, north of and adjacent to Islay. If all Juras had this nice warm fruit and honey character running through them to compliment the darker tones it would be a much better sipping whisky.It’s been a while since we’ve touched on Jura single malts (several years for me in particular), so I think a little reintroduction is in order. For me Jura suffers the same problem as Bowmore where I find myself liking NDP bottlings of it more than just about anything the distillery itself puts out. It’s rich, flavorful and aromatic, though not enough for me to give it an A mind you, but superior to most Juras I’ve had. Samaroli’s ability, and opportunity, to pick out great casks.
Samaroli Isle of Jura 16 years is a great example of Silvan S. Light bodied, it has a simple and easy texture with almost no burn Well balanced with malt, spice and wood keeping the sweetness in check. Med-long and malt heavy with notes of fruit, vanilla, ash and oak. If it were to stop at that it would be cloying and overly sweet, but luckily some notes of salty brine, whisky spice and wood to even things out and create a multi-faceted flavor. There is a nice subtle backing of malt, vanilla and a slight floral character with a gentle sweetness moving beneath it all.Ī nice tasty malt, dried fruit, red licorice, yellow cake and vanilla frosting slide effortlessly across the palate. Price: $180 Samaroli Isle of Jura 16 years ReviewĬrisp green apples, warm gooey honey, sweet ripe apricots and ripe pears start things off. Combine cherry / unique casks with the fact that they often re-cask and finish the whiskies themselves and you’re getting something you literally can’t get from anyone else. This is why a bottle of Samaroli costs so much more than most other NDPs. Located in Italy he traveled to Scotland, made friends and forged partnerships with distilleries that, to this day, give him and his company access to the most cherry and unique casks many distilleries have. Samaroli began his career in 1968 and was the first non-Scottish NDP of Scottish single malts.
There is a character in this bottle that I have yet to find in other Juras and I’m actually able to call it a good whisky, which is something I was beginning to think I’d never get say about another Jura.įor those not familiar with Samaroli, Mr. In fact outside of their peated “mistake” whisky (distilled 1996), this is my favorite Jura. It showed me that Jura can indeed create some mighty tasty whisky. This Samaroli Isle of Jura 16 years is a vatting of two different casks of Jura whisky that were distilled in ’97, bottled in ’13 and combined is something of a revelation to me.
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