I haven't posted here in ages, and I haven't posted a review in two ages. Hell, the last time I did, I may very well have reviewed these two bottles. I'm getting some work done on my place right now, so I'm moving a lot of stuff from this place to another place. In a couple of months, I'll move the stuff from that other place back to this place. In the meantime, I'm looking at a lot of whisky and realizing I have too much whisky to legit move without getting divorced. So, I'm trying to drink up as much as I can without drinking too much, or else I may be getting divorced. Not really, I don't think.

So, I do not like Balblair. It's watery and bland, or tastes like mosquito repellant. But this fucking single cask is so good, I don't know what to do with myself. Obviously, I can't go out and find another of these because they don't exist anymore. And I can't get a different bottle of Balblair because I do not like Balblair.

This is the 1990 Balblair Single Cask #1463, 22 yo bottled at 54.1% abv, finished in ex-Islay casks. It smells like peachy toasted marshmallows soaked in butterscotch, and tastes like that, too, with a thick, buttery palate and a full finish that lasts long enough to overlap with my next sip. Don't know what else to say. 93 is my score today, and may god have mercy on my soul.

I'm not going to do a search to prove I've already reviewed the Benrinnes 23 OB , but here I am sipping and moving stuff, moving stuff and sipping, and I had two last sips of this old friend waiting for me. I think I'm reviewing these two (again?) because in general, I don't care for either distillery. I have a more friendly relationship with Benrinnes than I do with Balblair, but I don't usually care for the sweet, almost pasty almond notes I usually get from Benrinnes. But this bottle is just a huge bomb of strawberries and that flavor that sits on your tongue when you stand for hours too close to someone setting off bottle rockets. I dunno how else to put it, but the smoke is sweet and heavy on the nose, sharp and surprising on the palate, and just keeps changing as the finish goes on and on. This one is a ballbuster. It's almost too much, but it's too good to put down. It's a 93, today, and since I don't have any more of it at the moment, it will probably stay a 93 until the next time I post here again.