Jura distillery

Isle of Jura is a whiskey distillery on the island of Jura, Scotland, United Kingdom, located in Craig House, the largest town of the sparsely populated Eilands.

History

Today's distillery was completed in 1963 after five years of construction. The operation of a distillery at the same location, however, is already proved, at least since 1810, the then owner was Archibald Campbell. The origins of Jura whiskey on the other hand, goes back probably to the beginning of the 17th century. As an operator in 1875 John Ferguson and his sons are mentioned, under whose leadership the building in 1884 a restoration learned. When the Fergusons, however the early 20th century could not pay their rent, which has ceased operations. Only in 1958 there were two locals, Robin Fletcher and Tony Riley -Smith, the owner of the Ardfin Estate, with the financial support of Mackinlay MacPherson (Scottish Brewers ) the engineer and architect William Delmé Evans commissioned to build an entirely new distillery. The purpose was to counteract the shortage of jobs on the island, which is to them but have not succeeded. 1985 Isle of Jura Invergordon Distillers bought and came with its acquisition to Whyte & Mackay. This in turn was initially acquired by JBB (Greater Europe) and eventually sold back to management ( management buy -out ), which is why the distillery on the company resulting from it Kyndal heard. This was again renamed Whyte & Mackay in 2004 and 2007 acquired United Spirits Limited ( United Breweries Group) company.

Unlike the other former Invergordon distilleries ( Bruichladdich, Tamnavulin, Tullibardine ) remained the Isle of Jura by the closure of the mid-1990s spared. In the Isle of Jura distillery today work twelve employees. On the grounds there is also a visitor center.

Production

The water from the distillery comes from the source Bhaille Mharghaidh. The distillery has a mash tun ( mash do ) (5 t) and six fermentation tanks (wash backs) ( per 49,000 l) stainless steel. Is distilled in a total of four stills, two coarse blisters (wash stills ) ( 25,000 l ) and two fine blisters ( spirit stills ) ( per 22,000 liters ).

Samples

In contrast to the manufactured until the 1900s, heavily peated malt barely today's Isle of Jura contains peat. It is available as Original bottlings as 10 -, 16 -, 21 -, and 27 (" Stillman 's dram " ) -year-olds. He is also available as Legacy and Superstition no age given. In addition to the original bottlings, there are also several independent bottlings of the law, including by Cadenhead and Signatory.