Year 2018 highlights!

It would be 3-rd time I sit down and sum up what malts impressed me the most during the year. 3 categories as usual, let's go...

Whisky felling #10. Whist without a forfeit or Great blind tasting: Benriach 1976 cask #529 44.2%, Highland Park 30 yo (round bottle) 48.1%, Talisker 35 yo 54.6% and Port Ellen 9-th release 57.7%

I've had idea of a blind tasting for quite a while, enjoying your malt in a glass without being distracted by its price, age, score or whatever. 

Year 2017 highlights!

Last year we've established the tradition to summarize the results of each year and name the best ones in 3 categories. So let's proceed to what the year 2017 brought us... 

Benriach 37 yo 1968/2006 DT cask #2597 48.6%

As Serge says "after 1976, 1968 was another great vintage at Benriach…". So let's give a try, it's Friday the 13-th after all. 

Benriach quartet: 16 yo Virgin oak cask 3269, 18 yo Rum Barrel cask 1644, 32 yo Refill Bourbon Barrel cask 7512 and 18 yo Oloroso Butt cask 7353

Tonight we'll retaste set of 4 single cask Benriachs bottled for Ukrainian Whisky Connoisseurs Club.

Benriach 11 yo single cask for Whisky Dram, Hazelburn 9 yo Barolo Cask and Springbank 12 yo CS batch #13

TGIF. And Friday evening is a perfect time to have a couple of new drams in Goodwine whisky location.

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.

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...

Summer tasting 02.08.2016: Taketsuru 12, 17 and 21 yo, Tobermory 20 yo, Benriach 1976 and Blair Athol 25 yo Artist #4

Quite interesting line-up today :) my friend Sergii was leaving for a business-trip so that was perfect reason for a tasting, you know...