Isle of Jura 21 Years Old

This 21 year old was released in 2010 to mark 200 years since the founding of the original Jura distillery in 1810. Matured in ex-Bourbon and Oloroso casks, it was an anniversary outturn of 1,200 bottles for Europe. The island of Jura has just one distillery, rebuilt in 1963 to revive a community that had lost its trade.

The original distillery closed in 1901 and lay in ruins until the 1963 revival, so the bicentenary spans both eras. Matured in ex-Bourbon and Oloroso casks over twenty-one years, the woods give a sherried depth to the honeyed malt.

Bottled at 44%. The ex-Bourbon gives vanilla and coconut, the Oloroso fig and raisin from its melanoidins with a walnut dryness. Honeyed, sherried and mellow, a fitting marker of two centuries. A bicentenary island twenty-one.