So, really, there’s no such thing as a typical day on Jura! When we have guests on immersion experiences, the team also gets involved with activities like island tours, sea safaris and bike rides – often finished with a dram or two in our Cooperage Bar. It’s very much a team effort here at Jura distillery, so everyone rolls up their sleeves and mucks in. Then we get the visitor centre open and start welcoming guests for their distillery tours. Most days here start with a cup of tea and a team catch-up, during which we’ll prepare for the tours and tastings we have booked that day. Tell us about your typical day as a Brand Home Manager. On Jura, I can walk to work in 43 seconds and under 30 if it’s raining! In London, I was averaging an hour and a half each way, on a tube packed with people. I run regularly, we walk our greyhound on the beach most days, and Estelle has even started wild swimming every Sunday. It’s a much more outdoorsy lifestyle than in London. We’ve settled in quickly and the community has welcomed us warmly. Island life is not without its challenges, but we feel at home here. How are you settling into island life and how does life on Jura compare to life in London? Thankfully, my industry experience and enthusiasm for all things Jura landed me my dream job. A few months later, Whyte & Mackay advertised the vacancy for a new Brand Home Manager, and I knew I had to apply. When I returned from that four-day trip, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
At the time, I was working in the London sales team as a Premium Business Manager. I was lucky enough to be invited on one of Whyte & Mackay’s brand immersion visits to Jura in April 2019. How did the opportunity to move to Jura and become the distillery’s Brand Home Manager come about? I’d met my partner Estelle by then and didn’t plan on going back to Australia anytime soon.
This led to me studying a degree in Wine Business at Plumpton College, near Brighton, and the rest was history. I found work in a restaurant in Newcastle Upon Tyne, which gave me my first taste of the wine and whisky industry. The plan was to backpack around Europe for 6 months but – at risk of sounding like a cliché – I fell for the culture, and once the time came to fly home, I didn’t want to leave. Hailing from Australia and living in London before re-locating to the island of Jura, you’ve certainly came a long way! When did you re-locate to the UK from Australia and why?
UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF WHISKY SINCE 1992.Since 1810 this unique island malt has been our greatest endeavour and our greatest reward, its creation the heart of an unbreakable bond between our island, our people and our whisky. Home to 200 islanders, one road, one pub and one distillery. Seven Wood is the second no-age-statement bottling in Jura’s new core range and is a fitting tribute to Jura's master blender's skills!Ī 42% ABV vatting of single malt whisky matured in seven types of French oak and first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels, it’s said to feature notes of peach, candied orange and subtle smoke.Ī few miles off the west coast of Scotland you’ll find our island: remote, sometimes wild, yet always beautiful. The expressions will be replaced with five new bottlings – including a ‘refined and stylish’ bottle design – created around a new signature style, combining subtle smoke with sweetness from American white oak barrels and ‘enhanced’ with a Sherry cask finish, described as a mix of Highland and Island styles The island distillery is replacing its existing range of Scotch whiskies with a completely new line-up that introduces a new flavour direction for the brand.įrom April 2018 Jura's core range of Origin, Superstition, Diurach’s Own 16 Year Old and Prophecy will be removed from sale. Jura distillery is completely overhauling its entire range of Scotch whiskies in what’s being called the ‘biggest launch in its history’.
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