Isle of Jura ( Official) - Superstition - N.A.S - 45%
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- Bottler:
- Official
- Alcohol:
- 45%
- Bottle details:
- Mariage entre malt tourbé et vieux malt
- average
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- (84,31)
- price class:
6 notes disponibles en français
The nose is very pleasant and a bit disconcerting. A dominant smell which could be wood, or malt mixed to a slight touch of spiced citrus fruit on a discrete peaty background.
In the palate, the spices are quite present, but the taste remains mellow, and the background peat is still there.
The finish is lingering and pleasant and returns on the malt or wood already present in the first nosing.
2005What a strange malt. Superstition is really wonderful. The memory I had about Jura malts was a good ordinary whisky. But this bottle denies this, The mix of malt, honey and peat is really astonishing. An unforgettable finish (very long). An unqualified success. This bottle can reconcile any whisky drinker with the products of the isle of Jura (if anybody could have had a negative impression about them...)
2003During the second tasting, a strange but very pleasant and complex smell where fresh notes of honey are mixed with some discrete peaty notes.
A very great complexity also characterizes the palate, combining some malt background with peat hints, in a spicy whole.
A long finish completes the scope. For a special experience, this superstition is a complete success
2004Johannes_Sauer
C.: Golden straw
N.: A very complex but firm and round nose: Honey meets apple juice, fresh fruits with cereals (Bircher Muesli), a wonderfully mixed combination of fruity and spicy aromes. There is dried figs and dates, too. Behind all this beauty there is a soft and discreet smoky note, very easy and not at all overpowering.
T.: w/o water: The peat is far more influencial, a smooth bitterness steps in, cocoa and dark chocolate appear on the map. w water: Now the fruity and cereal notes are stronger, combined with hefty whiffs of smoke a really great experience.
F.: There are fruits and brown sugar, vavishing, but bitter dark cocoa aromes are staying in the mouth for a long time This is a very expressive, complex and enjayable dram, a marriage of the regular fruity combined with a stronger peated one. Since the regular one is one of my all time favorites, I am longing for tasting the peated expression. (I found right now a bottle 5 y.o. and the bottle is just waiting to be opened....)
2008A nose with undergrowth memories, musty wood hints, peat. No smoke, at least not straight away perceptible. A prune smell also, but rather discrete.
In the palate, a kind of complexity, but also a kind of unbalance, together with some watery impression. Peaty notes seem to be superposed over other ones, smoother and with less character. Some furtive acidity. Not a fruity one, citrus fruit, but something which seems to evoluate in a strange register of a mix of peat and vinegar, without much character. Good thing it is really furtive....
The finish is paradoxically marked by alcohol, as alcohol just was missed in the mouth.... It is however long and pleasant, with nice woody notes.
2007
