More 30 yo Jura


December 6, 2021

More 30 yo Jura
From the Isle of Jura where they have many more deer than humans, even during Feis Ile.
Colour picture, 2006 ->

Jura 29 yo 1992/2021 (47.2%, Whisky Age for Whisky Picnic Bar Taiwan, bourbon barrel, cask #836, 140 bottles)

Jura 29 yo 1992/2021 (47.2%, Whisky Age for Whisky Picnic Bar Taiwan, bourbon barrel, cask #836, 140 bottles)
In theory, nothing should go wrong here. What's more, we do also remember that stunning recent Talisker 10 for the Whisky Picnic Bar Taiwan. Colour: white wine. Nose: typical seawater with a little sweet mustard, walnuts, paraffin, gorse, sandalwood, cigarette tobacco, then scoria, soot, castor oil (very old car), and any old stuff you would find in an old basement, just, perhaps, not dead mice. Mouth: appropriately salty and bitter at first, that is to say rather on brine and some kind of resinous mustard, also miso soup, then bitter almonds and bitterish vegetables. Eggplant, artichoke, dandelion greens, grapefruit peel… Finish: long, salty and bitter indeed, a tad unsexy but that's something you would expect from some typical Jura. Sooty and ashy aftertaste. Comments: reminds me of some older OBs, but this is wider. A very perfect example of the 'harsher' Jura style, perhaps not for everyone, but surely for us.
SGP:372 - 88 points.

Jura 30 yo 1991/2021 (54%, Artist by La Maison du Whisky, bourbon barrel, cask #946, 100 bottles)

Colour: light gold. Nose: mustard and soot once more, dry Madeira, fino, green walnuts, old tools, engine oil, horseradish, carbon paper, brake dust, then camphor and more green walnuts and mustard which, rather serendipitously, would remind us of some Vin Jaune from… Jura. Rather around Arbois than Château-Châlon. With water: whiffs of fresh French varnish (but naturellement), grass, heather, sourdough, manzanilla… What's not to like here? Mouth (neat): sweeter than the 1992 – maybe the barrel - and rather more on Seville oranges and just marmalade at first, then we find the expected walnuts, touches of curry (very vin jaune indeed), salty bouillons, elderberry eau-de-vie, plus these sooty ashes. With water: geared towards vegetable soups, bouillons, chicken broth, curry, cardamom, juniper… Finish: medium, sooty. More slightly sweeter miso. And walnuts again in the aftertaste. Comments: superb, whisky jaune from the isle of Jura, shall we say; we've come full circle.
SGP:462 - 90 points.

Jura 30 yo 1991/2021 (46.5%, Thompson Brothers, refill hogshead, 216 bottles)

Jura 30 yo 1991/2021 (46.5%, Thompson Brothers, refill hogshead, 216 bottles)
Angus has already tried this 100th bottling by the hyperactive Thompson Bros. Colour: white wine. Nose: rather closer to the 1992, with a little more vegetal oils (hazelnut, sunflower) and then paraffin and plasticine, while some softer seafood would dance in the background (say langoustines) before some straight soot would then take over. A little lettuce and rucola, incense, then some sweeter liqueur, perhaps hibiscus? They make that in French Guyana. A little melon too. Mouth: a wee tad tougher, with a lot of lemon peel, indeed rucola, then putty and plasticine, green walnuts, chlorophyll, mustard, then drops of Get 27 (peppermint) and just grass juice. Finish: long, on marmalade and rather green pepper this time. Very peppery aftertaste. Comments: the nose is superb, the palate is not exactly a bed of roses, but this old-schoolness remains absolutely wonderful. Almost distilled fino.
SGP:472 - 89 points.

Grouped fire today, as expected.

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