In the glass, Jura Journey is pale yellow. On the nose, it is light and herbaceous. Some soft notes of white grape and pear with a slight citrus touch. There is a sweet side full of vanilla and shortbread, with small flashes of peat smoke. Extra Information of Whiskey Misconduct In 2023 - Tasty Bites Journey on Scarce, High End Bourbon Drives American Scandals Whiskey doesn’t need to be a complex layering of fruits, herbs, spices, and casks to be good. Jura Journey is a simple and satisfying whiskey. The quality of the bourbon casks is obvious because the vanilla and the fruit are evident. These flavors are carefully balanced out with the peat. first taste straight out of bottle was a little wersh as many whiskies can be. a little air and a teaspoon of o2 and its transformed. it took many years to make so give it a little time in the glass. B and B-: Good and above average. The best of the mass market whiskeys fit in this category, as do the bulk of the premium brands. A B- is three stars.

It's the journey, not the destination that shapes us. The path from our foundation to the rebirth of our distillery in 1963 has shaped character of our community and the whisky we produce. This road has led us to our own unique style. Matured in a American white oak ex-bourbon barrels for a sweet finish. Jura is not very peated and is more like a regular highland malt than its island neighbours. So I suggest Highland Park, Dalwhinnie and possibly Oban which are not too dissimilar in style. I don’t really like Jura much actually, and don’t think it a patch on those three, at least for the style. Jura Journey is a simple and plain whisky, which is hard to go deeper. For the same price, you should find a handful of scotch (and non-scotch) whisky brands that will surely give you way more. Jura Journey is the starting point of the new rage, a NAS scotch produced, as all the range, with a combination of peated and unpeated spirit that will give a slightly peated style. For Jura Journey, the whisky has been aged in American white oak ex-bourbon barrels. It has been bottled at 40% abv, without chill-filtration and no added color.Whisky starts basically clear and gets its colour from the wood of the casks it is matured in. If the distiller uses a batch of casks that don’t leach much colour the whisky may come out pale at bottling. Some of the better distillers e.g. Bruichladdich simply bottle the whisky pale. The alternative tends to be to add caramel to the whisky at bottling. This produces the rich colour many consumers want to see. Unfortunately it changes the taste of the whisky and in my view is the waste of a dram. Jura are pretty bad at doing this with their regular bottlings, and for that reason it is a poor malt. So no more Origin (10 Year Old), Superstition, Diurach’s 16 Year Old and Prophecy. Instead we have a new line up consisting 5 new offers:

Regular readers have most likely read our review of Jura Elixir Single Malt Whisky Review, and you’ll know that it got a 5-star rating. But that leads us nicely to the Jura Journey Whiskey. A great collection of unique whiskies that are smooth, bright and lively, just like the tiny island community who make them.I bought some Islay once, a whole bottle of it. took me 3 years to get through it, if it had been purple I might have had a clue… Journey is a new no-age-statement release from the island-based Jura Distillery. It’s aged entirely in ex-bourbon barrels, but otherwise details are scarce. It began being sold as single malt in 1974, and the range has grown steadily since. The start of peating saw some smoky whisky being included in the no-age Superstition brand, launched in 2002, while a 100% smoked Prophecy was released in 2009. The distillery at the Isle of Jura has taken a new path. That is why they couldn’t choose a better name for the entry whisky of their new Signature Series range: Jura Journey. This small Scottish island is (in)famous for having just one road, one pub, one distillery, and a population of only 200. Deer outnumber people there.