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Jura 1988 & Lochside 1981 Blackadder Miniature x 2

Lot: 6137045

Jura 1988 & Lochside 1981 Blackadder Miniature x 2

Winning Bid: £50

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Jura, Lochside
Age: 
See lot description
Vintage: 
See lot description
Region: 
Island and Highland
Bottler: 
Blackadder
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
59.4% and 55.4%
Bottle Size: 
2 x 5cl
product Details

Jura 1988 & Lochside 1981 Blackadder Miniature x 2

Blackadder International were founded in 1995 by whisky writers, Robin Tucek and John Lamond, authors of the 1987 publication, The Malt Whisky File: The Essential Guide for the Malt Whisky Connoisseur. The company has gained great affection from whisky enthusiasts for its Raw Cask series, which is deliberately drawn un-filtered from the cask so as to retain all cask sediment along with any natural oils and fats. The company is credited with a key role in the popularisation of cask strength whiskies since its inception

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.

Lochside was founded in 1957, however single malt vintages only date from the early to mid-1960s and from the early 1980s as its Spanish owners in the intervening period, Destilerias y Crianzas (DYC), used its malt exclusively for export blends. Prior to this it was in the hands of Joseph Hobbs who had operated both pot and a coffey still, blending both malt and grain at birth for the distillery's Sandy MacNab brand. Some of these "blended at birth" casks have subsequently been bottled by independent labels. The practice stopped with Hobbs' death in 1964, and the distillery exclusively produced malt until it eventually closed in 1992.

Two miniatures bottled by Blackadder.This lot includes...

  • Jura, distilled on 12th October 1988, bottled in Arpil 2002, 59.4%
  • Lochside, distilled on 23rd February 1981, bottled in November 2004, 55.4%
     
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