Jura 10 Year Old was launched as part of a refreshed core range of whiskies from island distillery Jura in 2018, replacing Jura Origin. Aged in American white oak bourbon barrels before enjoying a finishing period in oloroso sherry butts, it has the subtle smoke and sweet fruitiness you want from a Jura single malt, with an intense kick of sherried sweetness underneath.
Honeyed barley and peaches in syrup, with light wafts of fragrant wood smoke.
Oily and subtly spicy at first, before notes of earthy vanilla pod and chocolate-covered raisins develop.
Another touch of smoke rounds things off.
Sometimes excellent! easy drinking, smooth, subtle. But sometimes like zingy paper, watery, papery, woody. Awesome and disappointing in 2 different bottles. Have drunken enough to share the notes.
You've got all that you want from a whisky for €26! I initially tried this neat and the nose was smokey with a sweetness not unlike peat, a little bit of water allowed the chocolate and coffee through as well as hints of ginger and orange with the smoke more in the background. Taste when neat was sweet and oily, kind of like peat and it was quite peppery after a while. With water it was much smoother, very chocolatey, hints of coffee and black pepper again after a while. Aftertaste is oily, peppery, smokey, nice. Basically this is a great all rounder especially for the price. If you're into smoke and peat with sweetness and pepper, anything which resembles an islay (I have a smokehead and laphroaig 10, both of which I really enjoy, Bowmore 12 is my favourite) you'll enjoy this, of not, look elsewhere
I've given this one numerous chances yet it continues to disappoint. Possibly a bad bottle? I doubt I'll buy again to test this theory.
This is good, better than Seven Wood.
Don’t waste your money on this . The old 10yr old ‘Origin’ was good but this tastes like watery wet cardboard, spend another fiver and buy the 12yr old instead , it’s so much better than this crap.
