Whisky felling #18. The Islands Odyssey: Arran 22 yo 47.7%, Bruichladdich 25 yo 41.6%, Talisker 25 yo (2005) 57.2%, Tobermory 32 yo 49.5% and Highland Park 1973 37 yo 50.6%

Main idea was to travel across Scottish isles and compare different styles of island whiskies.

Jim McEwan and Stewart Laing evening: Glen Scotia 20 yo 1991/2011 MM 57.6%, Bruichladdich 30 yo 1973/2003 40.2%, Bruichladdich 32 yo DNA 1977/2010 47.4%, Glenlivet 33 yo 1977/2010 Celtic Heartlands 47.7%, Springbank 24 yo 1993/2017 Edition Spirits 53.3%, Bowmore 22 yo Moonlight 43%, Ardbeg 26 yo HL the Kinship 49.7%

The whiskies themselves were stunning, but the possibility to chat with some of the most respected men in the industry was even more stunning!

Trio of young Islays from Maltbarn: Bunnahabhain 05 yo SV selected by Maltbarn #84 61.9%, Port Charlotte 08 yo Mba #81 57.6% and Bruichladdich 09 yo Mba #80 53.4%

We had 3 aged Taliskers recently, let's try 3 young Islay malts from a trusted bottler. 

First 10 thousand of pageviews and ... Bruichladdich Valinch 1986/2001 cask #700 53.5%

Actually that happened far quicker than I expected so instead of a bottle I planned to open in June I'll celebrate that with another rare and hopefully tasty dram presented by my friend Timur. 

TGIF: Highland Park 20 yo Cadenhead Single Cask 50.6% and Bruichladdich 24 yo Cadenhead Small Batch 53.3%

It was Friday again and a bunch of whisky maniacs popped into Goodwine store to taste Cadenhead novelties.

Bunnahabhain 1989 DT, Bruichladdich 1991 MBl and all times classic Bunna XVIII

Tasted these Islay boys and girls decent 6 months ago, at last this review is finished. 

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.