[Closed] If I like Jura, what other single malts might I like?

edradour

mate trust me on this.

Old P (£16 in Booths at the moment)
Highland Park
Talisker

Laphroaig and Laga... aren't very Jura-like. Bruichladdich (spg?) may be your best bet from Islay

Bowmore is a very good islay malt

talisker, a bit more peaty but really good
Highland Park, really drinkable
bruchladdich for a non peaty malt
bowmore 10 or 15 if you're pushing the boat out a bit

Laphroaig and Lagavulin are [u]nothing[/u] like Jura other than being all called whisky, nor is Talisker. All of these are peaty and medicinal in character. Jura doesn't use peat kilned malt and so is much mellower.

Old Pultenay is probably the closest of those that have been mentioned, Highland Park is considerably nicer than Jura or OP imo.

Bruichladdich, Glen Scotia, Highland Park, or Springbank?

only had lagavulin once, and it tastes like tcp.
nasty stuff.

I bought some Islay once, a whole bottle of it. took me 3 years to get through it, if it had been purple I might have had a clue...

But at another point I did have a nice Speyside, and I thought Jura was ok too

Caol Isla is very nice as well. Another Islay malt but fairly mellow, would put it alongside Jura Superstition but not quite as sweet.

If you like Jura nip to your local Co-op as it £17.99 a bottle (£10 off) 😀

Jura is not very peated and is more like a regular highland malt than its island neighbours. So I suggest Highland Park, Dalwhinnie and possibly Oban which are not too dissimilar in style. I don't really like Jura much actually, and don't think it a patch on those three, at least for the style.

I recommend getting Michael Jackon's excellent Malt Whisky book, published by Dorling Kindersley

I recommend getting Michael Jackon's excellent Malt Whisky book, published by Dorling Kindersley

I read that as Michael Jackson - which opened a curious window in my mind

Thanks folks - lots to think about here.

I may try and track down a bottle of Jura Superstition

I may try and track down a bottle of Jura Superstition

I have bought from Waitrose 3 bottles of Old Pulteney and 1 bottle Talisker to give as present. Old Pulteney at £20 per bottle and Talisker at £25.59.

I only bought Old Pulteney because someone said to me that it was rather good while Talisker (recommended by everyone) is even better apparently.

I was tempted to try Jura at Co-Op selling for £17.99 yesterday but found out one of the person that my present supposed to go to does not drink whiskey anymore but Port (Dow is better) so now I have a bottle of Old Pulteney with me ... hope it is up to my taste otherwise I would like to try Talisker.

Hmmmm ... I might end up collecting Whiskey ... d'oh!

Check out this rating if you think they have similar taste as you do.

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p/s: some supermarket are selling Talisker with life boat box ... think it is for the life boat charity (not sure as I just had a quick glance ...)

I might end up collecting Whiskey

I'm terrible at collecting it [hick!]

Picked up some Bruichladdich Rocks today at Morrisons. Very nice. Also came with a free glass. 🙂

I got given a bottle of Laphroaig quarter cask the other day and found it very nice. Judging from other posts its not what your looking for but I liked it, its my first whiskey but will have to try some more 😉

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Good god. Laphroaig? No.

Try Highland Park, for starters. If your budget stretches to it, Benromach Organic is ace.

Highland Park is a bit TOO easy to drink. Me and my missus attacked a bottle on New Year's Eve of 2006. Caution was thrown to the wind. Poppy turned three this October...

[i]edradour

mate trust me on this[/i]

Trust me as well. I got a bottle for 'a special occasion' Wasn't long before it got opened at a barby.
Lovely stuff.

I think I'm getting a bottle of Caol Ila for Crimbo off me boys. Old Pultenay's a fave of mine too, & Dalwhinnie, & Glenmorangie, & Glenfarclas, &....................................

Don't worry about all that Scottish rubbish; what about some lovely Isle of Dogs 12-year old malt? Hand-made with purest Thames Water.

I can get you some cheap, just let me know.

[quoteHeathenWoods - Member
Highland Park is a bit TOO easy to drink. Me and my missus attacked a bottle on New Year's Eve of 2006. Caution was thrown to the wind. Poppy turned three this October...

That's lovely but I hope you gave her an appropiate middle name.

Bruichladdich Rocks, sold in Morrisons is your next step up from Jura. It's just slightly smoky/peaty but very smooth. I biked from the distillery on Jura (I thoroughly recommend a visit to Craighouse) across Islay to Port Charlotte and then passed the Bruichlaiddich distillery to Portnahaven where I had a real education in the pub there. One lager, forty whiskies (this may actually be an exaggeration but serves to prove the point). The result of that evening was that Bruichlaidhich is brilliant. The following day was my birthday - after the hotel dinner we visited the distillery and got a little bit pissed on the generous samples. A lovely beach followed and then a long road ride that culminated in wild camping at a staggeringly beautiful beach and cooking sausages at almost midnight. This is the magic of a good whisky*.

*some of this may have been co-incidence or just pure romantic re-imagining. hic.

My suggestions of HP and Oban were a bit duff according to that chart! Probably some truth in it, as Knockandu 12yo, Livet 12yo and Fiddich 12yo are close to Jura and I don't like them much either. (Fiddich 18yo is good IMO and I do also quite like Livet 15yo tho).

Hey ho. I'd stay off the peaty stuff initially and work you way up that chart slowly.

Just a bit of abuse for Jura whisky.

Whisky starts basically clear and gets its colour from the wood of the casks it is matured in. If the distiller uses a batch of casks that don't leach much colour the whisky may come out pale at bottling. Some of the better distillers e.g. Bruichladdich simply bottle the whisky pale. The alternative tends to be to add caramel to the whisky at bottling. This produces the rich colour many consumers want to see. Unfortunately it changes the taste of the whisky and in my view is the waste of a dram. Jura are pretty bad at doing this with their regular bottlings, and for that reason it is a poor malt.

Then again, I probably enjoyed it before I knew that.

I often buy a bottle of whatever's going cheap at the supermarket - as long as it's a one I've read about. I have a dozen or so on the go at anytime and their from all over that chart but love them all and pick which one I'm in the mood for when want a drink.

Bought a bottle of Laphroaig quarter cask yesterday, by God it's like antiseptic. I think I'll stick to something a little simpler.

spud that quarter cask is lush my first proper bottle of whisky as i said above and i love it. ive just over christmas tried glenfiddich 12,15,18 , dalwhinnie, singleton, talisker and glenkinchie (spelling my be off as im just testing my latest buy , a bottle of jura superstition i got today.

all in all my fave has been the laphroaig qc and probably second the jura . my god it could be an expensive hobby this just like mtb 😉

I'm with you on the expensive hobby bit! Currently four in the cupboard: the Laphroaig, Bruichladdich, Cardhu and Balvenie Doublewood. It's a terrible habit, luckily my other half likes it a lot!

mine doesnt , i call that lucky lol

Think is has to be highland park or dalwhinnie after the jura although personally I'd get tore into the caol ila. However, you really shouldn't trust a man who is enjoying [url= http://www.belgianwhisky.com/start.php?lang=en ]this[/url] at the moment. The belgians are coming although it may be a good few years yet.

well after living in belgium a few years back if they can use any of that beer knowledge and transfer it to whisky it wont be bad 😉 i love belle vue kriek

Monkey Shoulder, saw off a big bottle two nights ago with a girly friend. Yummy.

Looked at that MOnkey Shoulder a few times, but it's never been cheap enough to risk

Singleton has been 20quid at late.

Has anybody tried the Japanese whisky

think talisker was reduced in off licence near the in laws, will rack my brains for the name

EDIT: its an oddbins but offer isn't on their site, hope i didnt dream it 🙁

Yamazaki is lovely

Monkey Shoulder isn't a risk, apart from the risk connected to drinking vast amounts of whiskey

i nearly bought the yamazaki today will bear that in mind as it seems to get good press

I'm quite partial to Jura these days. Probably because my local Co-op regularly knocks it down to £17 a bottle. The inlaws got me a bottle of Jura Superstition for Christmas. Good on them, I'm certainly not complaining, but I prefer the unpeated version of it.

Other malts of a similar ilk, which I enjoy, and you might, would include:

Springbank
Edradour
Glengoyne
Bruichladdich Rocks - peated but not to the extent of other Islay malts.

Can't think that I've ever tried Old Pulteney - need to give it a blast, as it seems pretty highly rated on here.

I think I'd like a bit more peat than the superstition but the jura prophecy is a bit dear for now, might try get a sample bottle 😉

I'm sippying my way through a bottle of Glenlivet at present its an 18 yr old very smooth and mellow but quite pricey, (xmas pressie) after I finish that I will open a bottle of Dhalwinnie same sort of smooth mellow taste one of my favs.

Talisker at Waitrose for £24 per bottle. Tempting ...

Sorry I'm late on a reply here, but I'd take issue with

The alternative tends to be to add caramel to the whisky at bottling. This produces the rich colour many consumers want to see. Unfortunately it changes the taste of the whisky and in my view is the waste of a dram.

It[i] allegedly [/i]changes the taste. It's a subject of hot debate rather than fact. I'd challenge you to tell the difference on a blind tasting.

As an aside, it's easy to detect. Shake the bottle. Brown foam = caramel, white foam = not.

Whats the concencus on dalwhinnie 15yo? Tis on offer in sainsburys ATM.

My advice is to go into a good bar with a fine selection of single malts and try a few. Everyone has a different palate and what is medicinal to some is nectar to others. Don't be scared off the more full-on malts by their reputation, try it out and then commit to a bottle.

Just out of interest kuntsler - how did you get on biking from Jura to Islay? Most people usually take the ferry 😉

No mention of Penderyn? Rather nice! 🙂

I'd challenge you to tell the difference on a blind tasting.

As I said, I probably liked Jura more before I knew about the amount of caramel added. However, you supply the whisky Cougar, and I'll go for a blind taste test. 😀

Option A : A well crafted product, aged in casks carefully selected to give the correct colour and flavour, made with just barley and water.

Option B : A product that may have started out well, aged in casks that didn't give it an attractive or consistent appearance, so the well known flavourless ingredient caramel was added at the later stages of the bottling process.

For the record, I'd also buy a non coloured cheddar before I'd buy a coloured one, even if there is no taste difference in that case. Not that cheddar is my favourite cheese.........

I'd love to know where the subject is hotly debated though, other than between us on this thread.

Well, it's 'hotly debated' amongst the whisky geeks I know, at any rate. And it's hotly denied by Richard Patterson, which is good enough for me frankly. (-:

Just out of interest kuntsler - how did you get on biking from Jura to Islay? Most people usually take the ferry

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[b]M1llh0use[/b] - Member
Whats the concencus on dalwhinnie 15yo? Tis on offer in sainsburys ATM.

[b]firestarter[/b] - Member
I think I'd like a bit more peat than the superstition but the jura prophecy is a bit dear for now, might try get a sample bottle

Ardeg, Laphroaig QC and Lagavulin with their strong medicinal tastes are my tipples of choice after having medicinal packaging in my upper palette for a few months following dental surgery when I was 11. Bearing that in mind highland tend to leave me a little unsatisfied however the Aldi Glen Marnoch 'Dalmore' which is currently sat in my glass and mentioned on STW a few weeks ago is however a good example of a highland, a bit like a sherry casked Balvenie.

As mentioned before Highland Park (The Ladies Whisky as my Grandfather used to say) is the introduction to the 'Amonia' flavoured Isles and Islay whisky's IMHO of course.

Currently quaffing jura superstition this eve 😉

[b]firestarter[/b] - Member
Currently quaffing jura superstition this eve 😉

😉 enjoy

How about Benromach?

Did well for chrimbo this year. Box of 12, 15 and 18 yr old Bowmore. Glem Moray (unknown to me as yet), Laphroaig and a bottle of Glayva liquer too.

Just as well stocks replenished as down to a bottle of Singleton and the dregs of Ardbeg Uigedail from last years xmas.

How about Benromach?

The best Benromach, by a country mile, is the Organic. Fabulous dram for the money.

😆 at kunstler

This week I have mostly been drinking The Macallan Select Oak. Next week I'm going to ask the bar in town where they got the Ardbeg Blasda that I haven't seen before let alone tasted yet.

Next week I'm going to ask the bar in town where they got the Ardbeg Blasda that I haven't seen before let alone tasted yet.