Name: Jura Seven Wood – 2024 Review
Color: Copper
Nose: Malt, honey, flowers, oak, citrus
Taste: Malt, iodine, dry wood
Jura Distillery was founded in 1810 and is located on the Island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. The distillery has changed hands may times over the years and is currently owned by Whyte & Mackay.
Jura Seven Wood marketing material states that the whisky is pulled from seven types of casks of differing wood. These woods are American White Oak, Limousin, Tronçais, Allier, Vosges, Jupilles, and Les Bertranges. The other six are French Oaks and I have only heard of Limousin. With this method of blending and the the whisky being 42% abv you would expect something different, no? Well, it is different, that is for sure.
On my first taste was Jura Seven Wood came off very weak and I was not impressed. On my second taste it was weak and now dry. Upon my third taste I got a medicine iodine taste and I was done. A week later I sampled it again and I found it even worse than I remembered. Some reviewers praise this expression, but I found it rough, cheap, dry, and medical a dirty finish. You know, like tasting shit.
I do not know how much labor it takes to extract whisky out of seven casks, blend it, bottle it, and sell it at the current market price. But it must cost some money and the price point comes off to affordable. I feel Jura literally got the bottom of the barrels and put this expression together.
Priced around $60-$75 and tastes like shit. I do not recommend it like I did in 2019.
If you like it, drink it! – Chris
If you like it, drink it!
