Filled 11/07/2008 Bottled 04/05/2026. 300 Bottles.

Starting life in a French oak oloroso hogshead, we transferred it to PX sherry for 9 months as the oloroso cask was good, but wasn’t giving us the sherry profile we wanted. Now, you’ve heard us talk many times about balance and trying to balance spirit character with wood, well this release isn’t that. It’s a full on sherry monster, we cannot deny that. It is however exactly the profile you want when you want that big sweet sherry beastie. There’s no tannic harshness, the sherry is clean and the slightly herbal Jura character does survive well. It emerges through all the sherry. We love it, it’s a load of fun, it’s just quite a different style for us. Chris and I burst out laughing when we started bottling, this stuff is black!

The label, some of you may get this straight away, others may still not get it after we explain it! Jura, famous for being an island with lots of deer, or for George Orwell writing 1984 there. For us, the cool hip people at LBD, we associate Jura with the KLF, or more accurately, the K Foundation burning all their money, £1million, on the island in £50 notes. We’ve made our own currency for this label, the fifty hound note. We will of course be burning some of this when we visit Jura, the fake money not the whisky!