Glenglassaugh 30 yo, Braes of Glenlivet 22 yo Maltbarn and Fettercairn 35 yo

The best tastings often occur when you don't plan them :) dropped in on my friend's apartment only for an hour, 4 hours spent instead but it was just great...

Port Ellen DL Platinum 29 yo 1979/2009 53.2%

Port Ellen from bottlers is always different. Tonight we have the one from Douglas Laing.

Whisky felling #1. Gems of Speyside: Glen Grant 60 yo 1952/2012 GM 40%, Glen Grant 1967/2008 40%, Macallan 18 yo (vintage 1966) 43%, Macallan 20 yo 1985/2005 Sc 54.4%

Aside from having Black Friday on 25.11.2016 one more event took place in Kiev - five malt maniacs gathered together to taste quite rare and unique Speyside malts.

Ardbeg Uigeadail 54.2% vs Ardbeg Airigh Nam Beist 1990/2006 46%

Uigedail is one of 3 essential modern Ardbeg releases (Ten, Uigedail and Corryvreckan), earlier versions from 2003-2004 are trading well above EUR 200 now. A perfect way to start with Ardbeg anyway :)

Highland Park Sigurd 43%

Quite new travel retail expression of Highland Park bottled in 2013. Sad reality is shifting from vintage expressions (1973, 1990, 1994, 1998 etc) to NAS releases with loud Scandinavian names. 

An Cnoc 39 yo 1975/2014 44.2%

One of the rarest active distilleries you can meet on shelves. Just 51 release known by Whiskybase. And today we have the oldest one of the range. 

Ukrainian Whisky Connoisseurs Club - February 2016 tasting

Oh Islay, with all thy faults I love thee still. I said in Bowmore and have not forgot it... As you might have guessed February tasting was dedicated to the newest Islay releases available on a market. 

Ukrainian Whisky Connoisseurs Club - January 2016 tasting

An evening dedicated to former Ukrainian Whisky Club President Alexey Savchenko the I, who has gone a few years ago, so today we will taste his favourite distilleries, slainte to Him!

Clynelish 2004 SMWS 26.101 59.3%

This one has been tasted recently, comments as follows. 

Highland Park 25 yo 48.1% vs Highland Park 30 yo 48.1%

Well, both of these malts are quite legendary and sort of Holy Grail for me. Would be that be interesting to make them sing together?.. 

Ben Nevis trio: McDonald's, 18 yo Sansibar and 15 yo single cask #737

Small but unique distillery still doing malts slowly. And that's good. 

Whisky Dram 2016

Second Single malts Festival that took place on 12.11.2016 in Kiev. Possibly the best whisky event in Ukraine so far. Over 60 brands available for tasting, lectures from whisky ambassadors, rare bottlings and so on, and so on. Though let's start from the very beginning.

Bunnahabhain 1968 Auld Acquaintance 43.8%

A very special bottle for me. Got acquanited with Auld Acquaintance (nice word play, isn't it?..) in 2009 in Harbour Inn, town of Bowmore, Islay.

Old Spirits Tasting: Glen Albyn 1963, Imperial 1970, North Port 1970, Dalwhinnie 1963, Mosstowie 1970, Convalmore 1969, Edradour 1972, Aberfeldy 1969, Dailuaine 1971, Benrinnes 1968

As an alternative to present-day malts this summer evening was dedicated to old and almost antique miniatures.

Set of Maltbarns: Clandestine "Very old", Benrinnes 24 yo, Speyside 41 yo, Caol Ila 13 yo and Talisker 27 yo for dessert

Hooray! They finally arrived :) Can't wait to start tasting, Maltbarn is doing very nice cask selection nowadays.

Black Bull 40 yo Duncan Taylor batch 4 41.9%

A blend with only 10% of grain malt and 90% of well aged malts of at least 40 yo. Why not try it?..

Trio of dolphins: Bowmore 25 yo 43%, Clynelish 18 yo SV 55.4% and Ledaig 9 yo Potstill 61.9%

Haven't tasted whisky for 3 days so I decided to build evening set of 3 malts with sea influence: Bowmore (Islay), Clynelish (Highland) and Ledaig (Mull). The order would be from the oldest to the youngest sticking to strength growth.

Glenugie 30 yo Deoch an Doras 52.13%

Distillery you don't meet everyday. Though it's considered to be Grand Cru Classé at Whiskyfun. Let's give it a try.

Two sherried Islay girls, i.e. Caol Ilas: 17 yo McKillop's Choice and 14 yo Maltbarn

Being the biggest Islay distillery Caol Ila can boast of a high quality spirit that sounds and tastes nice both in sherry and bourbon casks.

Cadenhead's small batch tasting: Glen Moray 17 yo, Benriach 19 yo, Glen Spey 19 yo, Glenlossie 21 yo, Glen Garioch 23 yo, Linkwood 28 yo and Glenlivet 42 yo

Long awaited Cadenhead tasting consisting of 7 different bottles. Let the war  tasting begin...

Sergii birthday on 28.10.16: bundle of Bowmores and some more...

Long delayed tasting of Bowmores finally took place as a celebration of our friend Sergii birthday.