Inchgower 13 yo 2009/2023 (58.5%, Gordon & MacPhail ‘Connoisseur’s Choice’, cask #803988, refill sherry hogshead, 241 bottles)
Colour: pale amber. Nose: a rather lean and mineral-driven sherry profile, but still quite big for a refill, with hints of hessian cloth and oily toolbox rags. Also linseed oil, treacle cake and sandalwood. With water: some wet leaves, petrichor notes, cigar humidor and wee cereal hints in the background. Mouth: good leafy, nicely earthy sherry profile, that displays rather a lot of green walnuts, tobacco leaf, sultana and Dundee fruit cake. There’s also a recurrence of this feeling of slightly fuller bodied aspects like toolboxes and oily rags. With water: really very good now, excellent clean, mineral and nicely tense sherry profile, with underlying oiliness of texture, cereals and light waxy notes. Finish: medium, on coffee and walnut cake, cocoa and some woody cupboard spices such as clove. Comments: a humble and impressive wee Inchgower. Also a very good example of excellent refill sherry I would say. 
SGP: 461 - 87 points. 

Inchgower 23 yo 1998/2022 (52.3%, Club Qing for Bar Salavador, #9994, bourbon barrel, 141 bottles)
Colour: gold. Nose: hey, honeys and waxes and pollens aplenty! Also a little peppery aspect, with dried exotic fruits and hints of lychee and custard too. Lush and extremely inviting. With water: grassy, bright and gently exotic now, with a subtle waxy and oily suggestiveness. Makes you think of some kind of Irish Clynelish. Mouth: really quite surprisingly fruity, in a way that makes you think of much older whiskies with these abundant honey and concentrated fruity notes. Green and exotic fruits in particular, along with more custardy vibes and then some touches of oak spice and varnish, in a good way. With water: super fruity and even more grassy now, veering really towards older Irish malts all of a sudden, or even pure pot still with this impressive and robust oily texture. Finish: good length, maintaining this fruitiness, light grassy and oily qualities and becoming brighter, sharper and greener. Comments: really excellent and surprising whisky with great evolution. Is Inchgower a malt we should be paying much more attention to? 
SGP: 641 - 90 points.

Tamdhu 50 yo 1972/2022 (47.7%, Gordon & MacPhail ‘Private Collection’, cask #3430, 143 bottles) 
Colour: gold. Nose: beehive territory, which feels comfortingly familiar and similarly inhabited by Glen Grants, Caperdonichs and any number of other classic Speysiders of the same vintage. Acacia honey, sun cream, pressed flower petals, crystallised mango, tiny hints of dried rosemary and abundant, soft waxiness. Mouth: superbly honeyed and fruity, and actually even a little fresher than the nose suggested, which is a pleasant surprise. Goes on with chamomile and green tea, yellow fruits, camphor, aniseed and touches of lemon liqueur and heather ale. In fact it does develop some really nice bready and beery touches that bind with the waxiness and honey qualities beautifully. Finish: medium and still on honey, fir wood resins, mead, camphor and wax. Comments: another glorious very old whisky from G&M’s warehouses. One where I’d say the palate is slightly ahead of the nose, which is a nice subversion for a change. 
SGP: 651 - 91 points. 

Tamdhu 1967/2002 (52.5%, Moon Import for Japan, The Animals, hogshead, cask #12)
Colour: very deep gold. Nose: pretty sensational, pairs the full beehive effect of the G&M but only with more power, more freshness, more ripe yellow fruits and a more vivid waxy character. Globally though, the profiles are quite close, with more notes of sandalwood, face cream, lanolin and fruit teas, dried citrus peels and crystallised exotic fruit notes. With water: rather a lot of pineapple, with hints of juniper wood, caraway and linseed oil. Rather more gentle and fragrant now I’d say. Mouth: perhaps not as luminous as the nose but still flying high. I find the wood a little spicier here with pink peppercorn, clove, star anise and camphor. Also resinous fir woods and waxes aplenty. With water: gets broader and little more balanced between fruits and spices, nicely warming peppery notes, cedar wood, ground ginger, lemon balm and other gentle medicinal implications. I find an increasing herbal quality too. Finish: medium with gentle exotic fruits, dried pineapple and soft waxes. Comments: we’re back in more familiar order with the nose being a couple of notches ahead of the palate overall, but globally I find it pretty much the same quality as the older G&M. 
SGP: 651 - 91 points.