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Little Brown Dog Jura 17 Year Old


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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.

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Meet The Founders

Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid

Little Brown Dog Spirits was founded by Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid. They run an independent bottler and micro-distillery based in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

They take their name from Andrew’s beloved dog, whose nickname was the little brown dog. She followed him everywhere on all his distillery visits and was his constant companion. She passed away in 2022 aged 15 but lives on in spirit. Two more little brown dogs, Winnie and Peedie joined the team in 2020 and 2023.

Chris and Andrew started Little Brown Dog in 2018. Based on Chris’s farm they combine a passion for their surrounding area with in-depth knowledge (read intense geekery!) of distilling and cask maturation.