Chapter 7 Monologue 21 Year Old Isle of Jura 1998

Chapter 7 found a single, twenty-one year-old cask of Isle of Jura Single Malt.

The premiss of Chapter 7 Whisky is simple — each cask of Whisky is unique. The wood, age, temperature, its location in the rick-house… everything tells its own story. Large Scotch producers marry casks in large vats before bottling so that the master blender can try to make them all taste the same. The folks at Chapter 7 Whisky think that’s a shame.

Chapter 7 is the brain-child of Selim Evin. He thinks that each cask should tell its own unique tale, so he travels to Scotland and Ireland to hand-select single casks from the inventories of the world’s greatest distilleries. Then he custom bottles each one with its own story. How many bottles you ask? Well, until the barrel is empty.

To borrow a line from Yoda, "The Force" is strong with this one. Chapter 7 Monologue 21 Year Old Isle of Jura 1998 is a single ex-Bourbon hogshead that yielded a spare 284 bottles of cask strength magic aged for twenty-one years. And you never EVER chill-filter or add coloring to magic, so you will not find any of that nonsense here. Typical of Isle of Jura Single Malts, there is a just a hint of salt and smoke collected from the maritime environment around it. But the core of this Spirit is an herbal, bready, and tart fruit profile.

Smartass Corner:
Chapter 7 has organized their releases into three categories. "Monologues" are single cask releases with a strictly limited quantity. "Anecdotes" are small batch or select blends that cannot be reproduced. Finally, "Chronicles" are small batch editions that are reproducible in limited releases.