Qualla: Jura Distillery https://qualla.com/jura-distillery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/v/jura-distillery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Jura Distillery https://qualla.com/jura-distillery Jura Distillery: Introduction https://qualla.com/jura-distillery/ Photo credit sebastian.b., CC BY 2.0. There is one road on Jura. It is twenty-six miles long, single-track for most of its length, and it ends at a farmhouse called Barnhill where George Orwell finished writing 1984 in the spring of 1948 with tuberculosis advancing through his lungs. Two miles before the road ends at Barnhill it passes through the only village on the island - Craighouse, population somewhere around fifty - and on the seafront at Craighouse stands the one and only Jura distillery. There is also one pub on the island, attached to the only hotel, fifty yards from the distillery. The whole supply chain of a Hebridean island runs through approximately four buildings.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/v/jura-distillery-wp/gcgv-jura-distillery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jura Distillery: Extremely Unget-at-able https://qualla.com/jura-distillery/ Photo credit W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0. Orwell's phrase from a 1946 letter still applies. To reach Jura from Glasgow takes most of a day. The standard route is a two-hour drive to Kennacraig on the Kintyre peninsula, a two-hour Caledonian MacBrayne car ferry to Port Askaig on Islay, then a five-minute crossing on the s...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/v/jura-distillery-wp/gcgv-jura-distillery-extremely-unget-at-able.mp3 0:06 2 full Jura Distillery: 1810 https://qualla.com/jura-distillery/ Photo credit David Hallett, CC BY-SA 3.0. The distillery was founded in 1810 by Archibald Campbell, the Laird of Jura. It struggled. It fell into disrepair. It was restored in 1884, fell into disuse around 1900, and was dismantled. For sixty years there was no distillery on Jura - the local economy was sheep and dairy an...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/v/jura-distillery-wp/gcgv-jura-distillery-1810.mp3 0:06 3 full Jura Distillery: The Whisky and the Island https://qualla.com/jura-distillery/ Photo credit Tim-desser, CC0. Jura's house style is unusual for an Inner Hebridean island distillery: lightly peated by default, with a non-peated mainstream expression, balanced by occasional heavily peated releases like Jura Superstition. The shift away from heavy peating happened deliberately under Scottis...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/v/jura-distillery-wp/gcgv-jura-distillery-the-whisky-and-the-island.mp3 0:06 4 full Jura Distillery: Barnhill https://qualla.com/jura-distillery/ Photo credit sebastian.b., CC BY 2.0. Twenty-six miles north of the distillery, the road runs out at Barnhill. George Orwell - Eric Blair, dying of tuberculosis at 45 - lived here on and off between 1946 and his death in January 1950. He wrote 1984 in an upstairs bedroom that looked over Loch nam Breac and the Atlant...

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