Final Thoughts & Score/Buy A Bottle: Score: 83/100Īgain, “subtly sweet yet smoky” pretty well sums up Jura Superstition. Swallowing leaves the spicy notes mingling with a touch of citrus in the back of the mouth and sweet coating over the center of the tongue. While spicy notes of cloves, pepper and cinnamon take more dominance yet are still held in the check by the honeyed flavor base, with a touch of the citrus and wood notes.

The smoke again is peaty but subtler than in the nose. After a couple moments, that begins to turn smoky and spicy. Palate: Hits the tongue with a smooth and sweet (if not viscous) drop of honey.

Nose: While peat surely makes its presence known in the nose, it is surprisingly subdued, largely taking a back seat to earthy but tropical aromas, starting with the smell of honey and oak and gradually growing to include notes of lemon, clove and sandalwood. Vital Stats: 43 percent alcohol by volume, packaged in a 750 milliliter bottle priced somewhere between $40 and $60 depending on the retailer and your location.Īppearance: Golden amber with a slightly reddish hue. It is aged in ex-bourbon casks and has no visible age statement, making it a non-age statement bottling. describes it as being crafted from about 13 percent peated barley and the rest unpeated barley. While Jura gives plenty of island superstition to accompany this whisky – such as the local belief that good luck will come from holding this bottle so that the Ankh, the Egyptian cross-like symbol of life emblazoned on the front, is in the center of the palm – practical information on the creation and make-up of this whisky is sparse.ĭescribing it as a “lightly peated,” Jura places Superstition on a delicate/peated side of its four primary products. They were proud enough of this fact to name a Scotch in his honor. Superstition comes from Isle of Jura, a Whyte & Mackay (Emperador) distillery named for the intriguing island on which it is situated – a rugged, sparsely populated place about 60 miles from Glasgow (overshadowed by its southwesterly neighbor, Islay) that George Orwell described as “the most un-get-at-able place” as he used it as a solitary retreat to write 1984, the distillery’s website boasts. Read as a neutral statement, that essentially encapsulates the flavor profile of Superstition, a mildly sweet Scotch with a touch of peat smoke and some notes of tropical and earthy spices – pleasant and mildly interesting but not extraordinary.

Isle of jura unpeated