I've had many a Jura, 8yo, 10yo, 12yo, but never this one. I don't think it was a long running edition. Although the NAS Statement is pretty modern, the 40%abv and lack of gaelic names sure aren't. Jura Distillery is now in the portfolio of Whyte & MacKay, and I think they've done quite some changes within its range to reinvigorate peoples interest for this distillery. The color is golden. It smells cabbage, earthy, mustard, boiled brown rice, ground coffee beans, peat, leather, earthy, mouldy in a good way. The taste is peppery, pumpkin seeds, mustardy, earthy, licorice and wasabi paste. Also there's a taste of blue toothpaste, like pepsodent if you ever heard of it, the one that suited children that couldn't handle mint flavor. With water added this turns into a sweet mess of palm sugar and caramel. Too sweet for me.
The toothpaste flavor nearly killed me, but don't add water, I beg you: 3.5
Next tasting: An old blend with Bowmore in it.
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