Here’s one of the legendary Jura 1966 bottlings: cask #1485 bottled by Signatory Vintage for their 10th anniversary.

I tried this back in 2011 at a Weedram Masters tasting hosted by Bert Bruyneel, but somehow I never got around posting my notes. The idea was always to try a modern standard bottling head-to-head with an old legend.

Jura 32 yo 1966 (50,6%, Signatory Vintage ‘10th Anniversary’ 1998, cask #1485, 248 btl.)

Nose: a great mix of fruity notes (pear, peach, pineapples and bananas) and leather. Then dried flowers (buttercups, dandelions) and waxy notes (wax candles, butter). Fine herbal...