Today's Behind The Barrel entry is focusing on Isle Of Jura's only distiller, Jura. An incredible popular and well received whisky considering the islands size and location. 

The Isle of Jura where the distillery was located is within the islands that form the Scottish Inner Hebrides off the west coast, along with Isle of Arran, Islay and more. George Orwell in 1946 described Jura as "extremely ungettable", this was based off the difficulty to reach the Isle, often  the crossing to Jura is first to Islay then from there onto Jura. The Isle of Jura is only 30 miles long and 7 miles wide, and has one road, one pub and the one distillery. Jura has population of less than 200 people that is dwarfed by a few thousand red deers that call the island home. 

The orgin opening of distillery was back in 1810, over the next 60 odd years the distillery fell into disrepair, before being restored in 1884, this renewed opening did not last to long and at the turn of the century the distillery fell silent again. At this point it was completely dismantled.

Nearly 50 years passed with no distillery on the island until Robin Fletcher and Tony Riley-Smith, two local estate owners partnered up in a effort to boost the local economy of the island, reopened the distillery and restored it to its former glory. the work was completed in 1963, the two estate owners partnered with architects in reopening the distillery and expanding it for the future. 

Like many distilleries ownership has changed hands a few times in its history, but has been owned by Emperador distillers since 2014, was the last time in history the distillery changed hands.  

Jura continue to produce high quality and incredibly liked and enjoyed whiskies, they produce around 2.5 million litres of spirit a year.