Origin: Speyside (Scotland)
Type: Single Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Strength: 49.1%ABV
Ageing cask: Ex-Bourbon
Chillfiltered: No
Added coloring: No
Owner: Jack Wiebers Whisky World
Average price: € 170.00
Official website: www.jwww.de
Vote: 88/100
After some time, German Jack Wiebers, the only IB able to offer a good Jura, returns to the blog. In fact, a very good one, as far as we remember. A 20yo, like today’s Glenrothes, distilled a couple of years before the Jura, in October 1996, bottled in December 2016 and offered in the Old Train Line series.
No additional colouring and no chill filtration, of course, for a former bourbon cask that produced 390 bottles that are now almost impossible to find (the indicative price refers to the foreign market, where a few bottles still seem to be available).
Tasting notes
The colour is an intense gold.
On the nose, the entrance is on the tip of a small flower, jasmine in this case. A fruit salad of white-fleshed fruit (apple, pear, peach) is enlivened by a touch of nutmeg, before the creamy side occupies the scene in all its expressive power: toffee, toffee, vanilla cream, hazelnut cream, with incursions of milk chocolate and galatine. A hint of wood (bark) and an apricot fragrance close a perceptive range that is not recommended for diabetics and highly recommended for everyone else.
On the palate we immediately perceive a hint of orange peel which in time becomes an impression of more acid citrus (cedar?). The spicy note is more noticeable (pepper and nutmeg), while the creamy part (vanilla cream and toffee) leaves more room for wood (old wood and polished light wood) without, however, taking over. Overall, the whisky is characterised by an uninterrupted and very pleasant smoothness.
The finish is long, warm and creamy, with just a touch of spice.
Jack Wiebers has nailed it again this time, with a mouth-watering, never-faded whisky that does not sacrifice balance to liveliness. Perhaps it’s more winter than summer, if we’re putting it that way, but good drams, as you know, have no season, and today’s is certainly one of them.