Waaaaaay back at the end of May I travelled up to the remote island of Jura to check out its annual Whisky Festival. This year’s event was even more worthy of red letters on the Jura calendar than usual, as the occasion marked 50th anniversary of the island’s distillery.
Here’s an excerpt from the piece I wrote for City AM about my experience:
I had travelled from London to attend the Jura’s annual Whisky Festival, which had been grafted onto the week-long Feis Ile festivities on the neighbouring island of Islay. Islay, home to Ardbeg, Bowmore, Lagavulin, Laphroaig and a handful of other notable distilleries, is the reigning champion of all things single malt and peaty – and that’s about all it’s famous for. Compared to almost anywhere else in the world, Islay would seem a backwater. Next to Jura, it’s a bustling commercial centre.
The main draw of the festival was a series of exclusive tastings led by Whyte & Mackay reps such as Richard Paterson, Master Blender for the past 40 years at Glasgow-based whisky producer Whyte & Mackay (makers of Jura whisky), is a third generation whisky man who has work …
Read my complete article at City AM.
