Isle of Jura 1999 The Whisky Fair
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Isle of Jura |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1999 |
| Bottled Year | 2004 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 61.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
mahogany
air Nose
starts on loads of porridge and loads of caramel. Very heavy and very spicy – and rather oddly perfumy I must say. Yoghurt sauce, caramel crème… And quite some sulphur I’m afraid (but some like it sulphury). Rather thick and, I must say, hard
restaurant Palate
rough, thick, vinous… I’d say ‘cloying’ even if that may be too strong a word. Other than that all the very mashy notes are well here behind that heavy mask. Let’s stop it here because sincerely, this is too much for my taste. I feel this ‘treatment’ is excessive and I doubt that even a young Ardbeg would have survived under these conditions. Too bad, we’ve had many great sherried Juras before, and I’m sure we’ll have many other ones in the future. But this one doesn’t really click for me (especially at £95). 69 points. Isle of Jura 1975 (60.9%, OB, Matthew Forrest Collection, cask #2620, 192 bottles, circa 2002) Matthew Forrest was specialised in sourcing ‘official’ casks for the Japanese market. I think it’s him who revealed the famous very young peated Juras to the world