Key Facts About This Scotch Bottler: Little Brown Dog Distillery: Jura Region: Islands, Scotland Age: 17 years old Distilled: 11/07/2008 Bottled: 04/05/2026 Spirit: Single malt scotch whisky Cask Type: Double sherry Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength, 50.3% Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration Outturn: 300 bottles Bottle Size: 700ml Jura 17 Year Old Tasting Notes Colour: Treacle Nose: Bramble Jelly, cut meadows, sherry slap to the face Palate: Blueberries, pecan pie, dried thyme Finish: Fruit molasses, tobacco, lime zest About this Little Brown Dog release Starting life in a French oak oloroso hogshead, Andrew and Chris transferred it to PX sherry for 9 months as the oloroso cask was good, but wasn’t giving them the sherry profile they wanted. Now, you’ve heard talk many, many times about balance, and trying to balance spirit character with wood; well, this release isn’t that. It’s a full-on sherry monster, there’s no denying it. It is however, exactly the profile you want when you want that big sweet sherry beastie. There’s no tannic harshness, the sherry is clean and the slightly herbal Jura character does survive well. Amazingly it still emerges through all the sherry. It’s a load of fun. Andrew and Chris both burst out laughing when they drew the most recent cask samples, this stuff is black! The label, some of you may get this straight away, others may still not get it even after we explain it! Jura, famous for being an island with lots of deer, or for George Orwell writing 1984 there. For Andrew and Chris, the cool hip people at LBD, they associate Jura with the KLF, or more accurately, the K Foundation burning all their money, £1million, on the island in £50 notes. They’ve made our own currency for this label, the “fifty-hound” note. To celebrate the release they took a suitcase of fake money to Jura to burn it.