On August 10th, I attended the WOW (Wonders of Whisky) tasting experience.
It was a curated, “journey around the world through spirits” tasting of over 100 whiskies and spirits.
The event was held at The Bordone event space located in an industrial section of Long Island City, New York at 43-10 9th Street. The building was a couple of blocks from the east river and the event was held on the rooftop terrace of the building which gave us a magnificent view of the Queensborough bridge and the Manhattan skyline, even more so when the sun went down, and the lights of the city turned on.
There were mostly brown spirits being poured but gin, rum and tequila were available to sample as well.
With the brown spirits, there was a strong presence of single malt Scotch on hand but there were still plenty of Bourbon and Rye as well as Irish whiskey, Japanese whisky, Cognac and brown rum to sample.
Scotch is not usually my go to spirit but if you’re pouring a Johhny Walker Blue Label or some other nicely aged single malt, I’ll give it a try. But I do like a nice cognac, so I was happy that they poured Hennessy XO to sample.
They had two sets of live music with all women musicians performing on string instruments.
Some of what I sampled:
Wyoming Whiskey Bourbon | Brother’s Bond Rye/Bourbon |
| Woodinville Rye/Bourbon, 8yr | Whistlepig 10yr Rye, 12yr Rye |
| Hakata Japanese 10yr | Keeper’s Hand Irish/Am Whiskey |
| Glenmorangie 18yr | Johhny Walker Green, 18yr |
| Rum Clement VSOP | Barcelo Rum Anejo, Imperial |
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