With National Scotch Day around the corner (July 27th) we bring you tasty cocktails made by some of NYC’s top bartenders. These cocktails were inspired by a recent trip to the remote Isle of Jura – a whisky drinker’s paradise, located off the West coast of Scotland and home to less than 200 people – where the bartenders took over the island’s one and only Jura Pub.

Whisky has been the lifeblood of the Island since 1810.  Today it’s the only major export and the distillery is the main driver of tourism.
Celebrate the day with Jura Scotch Whisky.

Flash In The Pan – Created by Greg Buda of The Dead Rabbit and featured on the menu; this stirred cocktail serves a healthy dose of herbal and floral notes (above)

Ingredients:

1 dash Bitter Truth Aromatic bitters

0.5 tsp Nux Alpina walnut liqueur

1 tsp Hamilton Pot Still rum

0.5 oz Amaro Nonino

0.75 oz Bonal Gentiane

1.5 oz Jura 18

Directions: 

Pour into a coupe glass. Use orange oils for an aromatic touch.

Dead Ringer – created by Patrick Winston Smith, bartender at The Modern; the drink is called Dead Ringer for two reasons.  1) It’s a play on (a dead ringer for) a classic scotch cocktail called a Morning Glory Fizz, which is a basic egg white scotch sour with absinthe. 2) the cocktail brings out the flavors already present in Jura 10: orange peel, honey, and sherry. In this sense the cocktail is intended to be a dead ringer for a dram of Jura 10 itself, but with a refreshing twist.

Ingredients:

Barspoon absinthe

1/4 Grand Mariner

1/4 Amontillado sherry

1/2 Honey syrup

3/4 Lemon

1 1/2 Jura 10

Directions: 

Shake and fine strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

The Island Old Fashioned – created by Shannon Ponche, head bartender at Leyenda

Ingredients:

3 dash Bittermans tiki bitters

3 dash Rum Fire

Tsp macadamia nut syrup (Orgeat Works)

2 oz Jura 10

Directions: 

Stir and serve on the rocks, orange twist garnish