A light malt sweetness pervades, but is just sweet enough to balance the salt/peat.įinish: Of medium length. Some tongue burn is followed by salty peat with notes of black pepper. After a rest in the glass, one can pick out notes of sandalwood, vanilla, and caramel, although they are faint. Reminds me of expanses of brown seaweed slowly aging (rotting) on a sea spray-buffeted beach. Briny and heavily suggestive of the sea (not smoke). It’s quite reasonably priced, at $50 – $60, which is the new $40, didn’t you know? Superstition is Jura’s house malt but heavily peated (although the bottle says “lightly” peated, I would lump it in with fully peated malts like Laphroaig and Talisker) and aged in ex-bourbon casks. The NAS market is, certainly, one where the buyer must beware. In fact, when Compass Box recently tried to flip the system and release an NAS blend with the age of all of the components prominently displayed, it was slapped with threats of litigation. Any old profit-driven distillery ( cough) with an eye towards gouging the current spike in whisky popularity could release an $80 bottling of primarily young malt without any kind of legal backlash. It’s a laudable goal, but fraught with potential for abuse.
With an NAS expression, a distillery doesn’t have to try to sell something that has a price befitting its average age of, say, 15 years with a label that (by law) only reveals the youngest malt in the vatting – perhaps 5 years. Along with Ardbeg Uigeadail and Aberlour A’Bunadh, Superstition stands for the original intention of the category: to expand the ability of master blenders to release malts that showcase what’s best about a brand by allowing them to use young malt for intensity and fresh fruit and floral notes, and older malt for balance and depth. Jura Superstition was one of the first wave of NAS malts: whiskies created by combining a single distillery’s output from several different ages without revealing the ages on the bottle. Palate: Cinnamon, nutmeg and cocoa beans followed by a fleeting plume of smoke.įinish: Pleasant, warming und honey-sweet.īy visiting this blog, you confirm that you have read the Privacy Policy & that you are of legal drinking age in your country.Ahh, the NAS debate again. At least that is what an old Jura legends says… If you forget to hold the bottle so that the ankh symbol is in the palm of your hand while you fill your glass, you might miss out on good fortune coming your way. It is a little harder to pour than other spirits, though.
If you are not (yet) a full-fledged peathead, the Superstition is also a great dram to carefully direct you towards the smoky side of whisky relish. It is a complex Single Malt Scotch that you can serve and enjoy at any given occasion. In terms of its nature, the Superstition is located between the delicate Origin and the hefty Prophecy. Reflecting both the tranquility of the island and the vim of the waves that surround it, these great malts surely have a character of their own. The Jura Superstition is part of the distillery’s core range of single malts, which also includes the Diurach’s Own (16yo), the Origin (10yo) and the Prophecy (NAS). The reason is simple: The local distillery, named Jura after the isle it was built on, produces amazing drams. Despite its wee size, this amiable community is known and loved by whisky fans across the globe. Not even 200 people live on the Isle of Jura on the west coast of Scotland.
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