Jura 8 Year Old Charles Mackinlay 1970s
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 back 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.
Although an important constituent of many blends, Jura has long been bottled as a single malt. This is a distillery bottling of the 8 year old expression which was introduced in 1974 and bottled through to the mid-1980s, eventually being replaced by the 10 year old in the core range by Invergordon Distillers.
This was bottled by Charles Mackinlay & Co in the 1970s. Mackinlay's and John E. McPherson were joined under the same umbrella when Scottish & Newcastle Breweries purchased Charles Mackinlay & Co in 1960. The licenses for its distilleries were divided between the two, with Glen Albyn granted to McPherson's in order to provide malt for its Cluny blend, while Jure and Glen Mhor remained with Mackinlay's.
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