Tasting Notes: Cragganmore 12 and Isle of Jura

I thought I’d try something fun. I have a little notebook I carry with me when I go a drinkin’, so that I can make notes of the different things I try and remember what I like. I call it my scotch diary, though really it applies to any tipple. Anyway, now you can expect from time to time, a post, a review if you will, of what I’ve been drinking.

To start off with, the other night I cracked open a bottle of Cragganmore 12 year, a gift that was given me by an old friend. A Speyside single malt, the Cragganmore distillery has been running since 1869. This whisky is light gold in color, and has a sweet, mellow bouquet with a hint of sherry. Then I drank some. It has a very full, almost floral taste, with a bit of char. It is very smooth, and somewhat complex, with a smokier, less herbal finish.

3.5 out of 5

Next up in the ole diary, I had the opportunity to try Isle of Jura whisky. We have a number of scotches behind the bar, and I spend many slow nights smelling them and salivating. Me and the other bartenders have decided to do a tour of the many whiskies, so I thought I’d start with Jura. Isle of Jura is the only whisky made on Jura, and classified as an Island whisky, a subset of the Highland family. I tried the 10 year, which is honey amber in color, with a sweet, almost honey-like nose. Tastewise, Isle of Jury is very spicy, almost forceful. At first, it doesn’t have the heavy peat flavor associated with whiskies from neighboring Islay, though that “mouth full of smoke” flavor soon appears, with a lasting aftertaste.

3 out of 5

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