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Jura 1966 R.W. Duthie for Corti Brothers 20 Year Old / US Import

Lot: 344249

Jura 1966 R.W. Duthie for Corti Brothers 20 Year Old / US Import

Winning Bid: £1,950

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Jura
Age: 
20 Year Old
Vintage: 
1966
Region: 
Island
Bottler: 
R.W. Duthie
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
86 US Proof
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Jura 1966 R.W. Duthie for Corti Brothers 20 Year Old / US Import

This is part of a much sought-after series of independent bottlings produced by Aberdeen's R.W. Duthie for the Corti Brothers of Sacramento, California. R.W. Duthie was a subsidiary of Wm. Cadenhead, and also bottled esteemed independent distributors like Samaroli at the time. The Corti Brothers were a family grocer business founded in 1947 by Frank and Gino. Frank's son Darrell was the one to introduce a specialist spirits knowledge to the business, and they began getting their own Scotch whisky bottled for them in 1978.

This is a 1966 vintage which has become one of the rarest independent Jura around.

The Isle of Jura is one of the most isolated in the Hebridean archipelago, and by all logical accounts an unusual place to build a distillery. However, the historic site was re-opened in the 1960s, in part to provide jobs to what was a declining population at the time. The rebuilding of the distillery was backed by blenders Charles Mackinlay & Co, so like Bruichladdich, despite the island being covered in peat, it produced an un-peated spirit to meet the needs of their blends. This continued into the 1990s when Whyte & Mackay became its owners, although they did eventually introduce some peated malt to their distilling, launching the Jura Superstition in 2003.

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