Isle of Jura Turas-Mara

Name: Isle of Jura Turas-Mara
Brand: Isle of Jura
SKU: 41072
Rating: 81.56 (322 reviews)

Overall rating: 81.56/100
votes: 322

Whiskybase ID: 41072
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Isle of Jura
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottled: 2013
Casktype: Bourbon, Sherry, French Oak, Port Pipes
Strength: 42.0 % Vol.
Size: 1000 ml
Bottle code: M3058 15:57 13/00565
Barcode: 5013967009295
Bottled for: Travel Retail Exclusive
Added on: 28 Mar 2013 6:52 pm

Average value

€ 62.70

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€ 45.00

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Whisky Reviews for Isle of Jura Turas-Mara

56 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 81.56 points

Calmar scored this whisky 80 points
07 Aug 2019 1:11 pm
A rather weak release, all the advantages of the distillery, which are present here rather in their infancy, are overlapped by youth and unfinishedness, the taste here was the most successful, but only in comparison with aroma and finish.

Nose

Restrained, dry, very youthful notes - dust, cardboard, flavored with sweet raisins, dried medicinal herbs and freshly sawn boards; coated tablets, a few nuts, grains, light coffee notes.

Taste

Soft, quite saturated, the continuation of the aroma, the same young, not fully formed notes - dust, cardboard, grain, coated tablets, raisins, sweet syrup motifs, licorice, more oak, burnt branches, more coffee, dark chocolate.

Finish

Soft, slender, oak, charred branches, dark chocolate, coffee.
SRB scored this whisky 83 points
14 Mar 2021 9:07 pm
Nose

82 82

Taste

83 83

Finish

83 83
Igor scored this whisky 84 points
02 Feb 2021 7:25 pm
The idea to age whisky in more than two casks types is always a tough task, and a certain risk of course, a gamble. But here, it went without fail, I call it rather a successful one. Oak types giving their best, the oaky impact balanced well enough. Not bad at all, nice take.

Nose

85 85

Quite rich and fragrant, perfumed almost (male perfume), with good intensity. Vinous dried fruit, dried apricots, dried pears perhaps, candied fruit (apple), caramelized, sugared orange, hints of cigar box in the distance, red wood, a tad chocolaty maybe.

Taste

84 84

Initially sweet, dark-sweet, overriped plums, marmalade, apricot jammyness, spiced, lacquered oak (nicely), fruit-and-candy combo, full, thick texture, quite intense again. The fruitiness goes off, wood spice comes in, cardamom, nutmeg, dried oak. Getting drier, spicier.

Finish

82 82

Warm and drying at the last stage, spicy-dry, woodsy, leafy-dry, herbal, herb tea, bitter-dry and orange-gingery, orange peel. Aftertaste lasts quite some time.
juli__c scored this whisky 84 points
15 Dec 2020 2:54 pm

For me, this is the second bottle of Turas Mara. The first one (bought 2013/2014) surprised me with strong but tender notes and an explosion of taste while swirling in the mouth.

After i heard they are stopping the series, i needed a new one. 1Liter for 49 Euros. A little bit less intense i have to say, but also my palette developed a lot in the last years...

still a good value whisky for me. a little sad that they stopped it.
Dris scored this whisky 83 points
20 Jun 2020 5:57 pm
Nose

84 84

Taste

83 83

Finish

81 81
Ro_Loe_10 scored this whisky 80 points
14 May 2020 10:29 pm
Nose

80 80

Honey, raisins, fresh fruits but not too intense, the influence of port pipe and wine cask is not very notable

Taste

80 80

Spicy, dry, oak, sherry

Finish

79 79

Short
dominikbraun scored this whisky 83 points
13 Apr 2020 10:16 pm
S_S scored this whisky 80 points
29 Dec 2019 12:15 am
Nose

80 80

Taste

80 80

Finish

79 79
Alexandr_Zhurov scored this whisky 75 points
15 Dec 2019 12:09 pm
2013 release, 42%. The drink changes dramtically in the middle of the bottle, let it stand for a month. At first, the taste was a bit bitter, plastic, empty, but then everything changed dramtically, whisky becomes more sweet and balanced.

Nose

Sweet fruits, grapes, vanilla, peach jam, orange peel, in the background a sea theme, possibly salt, a little iodine, later in the aroma of meadow herbs. Then it will change to lemon marshmallow, vanilla, a lot of sweets, it becomes dry, fruits and herbs go by the wayside.

Taste

At first, the taste is simple, not enough strength, bitter, some kind of grassy, plastic, and a little honey. In the middle of the bottle the bitterness goes away and the taste becomes saturated.

Finish

Bitter, empty, short, leaves a feeling of rubber on the tongue. Later it becomes more pleasant and softer.
Bomshanka scored this whisky 82 points
12 Dec 2019 4:15 am
Fairly simple travel retail NAS. Jura has an almost Irish softness in which the different components sink and disappear. Like an Island bed of soft pillows for smell and especially taste. Not bad, but not very convincing either.
Regardless a very decent sipper for the price. My litre was 35€.

Nose

82 82

Sourdough and grain, then some yeast and earthy peat, slight heather honey, green apple, and plenty oak. A nose that feels rather shallow and subdued and not very different from a standard speysider.

Taste

81 81

Sweet, sour, wood spice, bit of salty caramel on cooked apple stew. Not very complimentary, but also not offensive. Like licking maple syrup off of a freshly cut side of oak branch.

Finish

83 83

Bready, yeasty, oaky. Medium lingering.

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