Facts about this distillery
Established
1810
Owner
Whyte & Mackay
Annual Capacity
2,500,000 Litres
Region
Islands
Number of Stills
Four pot stills – two wash, two spirit
Jura Distillery. As far-flung as it is full-flavoured.
Jura is both beautiful and rugged. The west coast is practically uninhabitable. The island’s population is around 200 people (the red deer’s pop. is 5000) who live on the east and south coasts. Jura is just seven miles wide, thirty miles long and 60 miles off the west coast of Scotland. It has one road, one pub, and one distillery. Jura Distillery.
Jura Distillery is the island’s largest employer.
The “unget-at-able” distillery.
Established in 1810, the Inner Hebridean distillery was one of the world’s most far-flung. Even author George Orwell described it as “extremely unget-at-able” in 1946. Today, the island is equally, un-get-at-able.
The distillery went through good and bad times, before it was dismantled in 1950. A revival happened in the 1950s when Robin Fletcher and Tony Riley-Smith rebuilt and expanded the site by 1963. They installed ‘taller’ stills too.
In Jura, life went from good to great.
In 1985 Invergordon Distillers bought the distillery. Then in 1993, Whyte & Mackay took over Invergordon Distillers.
Still owned by Whyte & Mackay, Jura offers a variety of sublime single malt Scotch whiskies, including Jura 12-, Jura 10-, and Jura 21-year-old, plus the Tide and Jura casks. Now’s the time to savour Jura’s gentle notes of American oak and light Highland peatiness.
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