Inchgower and Tamdhu Occasions Two

Inchgower 13 yo 2009/2023 (58.5%, Gordon & MacPhail ‘Connoisseur’s Alternative’, cask #803988, refill sherry hogshead, 241 bottles)
Color: pale amber. Nostril: a somewhat lean and mineral-driven sherry profile, however nonetheless fairly huge for a refill, with hints of hessian material and oily toolbox rags. Additionally linseed oil, treacle cake and sandalwood. With water: some moist leaves, petrichor notes, cigar humidor and wee cereal hints within the background. Mouth: good leafy, properly earthy sherry profile, that shows somewhat plenty of inexperienced walnuts, tobacco leaf, sultana and Dundee fruit cake. There’s additionally a recurrence of this sense of barely fuller bodied points like toolboxes and oily rags. With water: actually excellent now, wonderful clear, mineral and properly tense sherry profile, with underlying oiliness of texture, cereals and lightweight waxy notes. End: medium, on espresso and walnut cake, cocoa and a few woody cabinet spices resembling clove. Feedback: a humble and spectacular wee Inchgower. Additionally an excellent instance of wonderful refill sherry I might say. 
SGP: 461 – 87 factors. 

Inchgower 23 yo 1998/2022 (52.3%, Membership Qing for Bar Salavador, #9994, bourbon barrel, 141 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: hey, honeys and waxes and pollens aplenty! Additionally a bit peppery side, with dried unique fruits and hints of lychee and custard too. Lush and intensely inviting. With water: grassy, shiny and gently unique now, with a delicate waxy and oily suggestiveness. Makes you consider some type of Irish Clynelish. Mouth: actually fairly surprisingly fruity, in a means that makes you consider a lot older whiskies with these ample honey and concentrated fruity notes. Inexperienced and unique fruits specifically, together with extra custardy vibes after which some touches of oak spice and polish, in a great way. With water: tremendous fruity and much more grassy now, veering actually in the direction of older Irish malts unexpectedly, and even pure pot nonetheless with this spectacular and sturdy oily texture. End: good size, sustaining this fruitiness, gentle grassy and oily qualities and changing into brighter, sharper and greener. Feedback: actually wonderful and stunning whisky with nice evolution. Is Inchgower a malt we needs to be paying far more consideration to? 
SGP: 641 – 90 factors.

Tamdhu 50 yo 1972/2022 (47.7%, Gordon & MacPhail ‘Non-public Assortment’, cask #3430, 143 bottles) 
Color: gold. Nostril: beehive territory, which feels comfortingly acquainted and equally inhabited by Glen Grants, Caperdonichs and any variety of different basic Speysiders of the identical classic. Acacia honey, solar cream, pressed flower petals, crystallised mango, tiny hints of dried rosemary and ample, delicate waxiness. Mouth: fantastically honeyed and fruity, and truly even a bit brisker than the nostril instructed, which is a pleasing shock. Goes on with chamomile and inexperienced tea, yellow fruits, camphor, aniseed and touches of lemon liqueur and heather ale. Actually it does develop some very nice bready and beery touches that bind with the waxiness and honey qualities superbly. End: medium and nonetheless on honey, fir wooden resins, mead, camphor and wax. Feedback: one other wonderful very outdated whisky from G&M’s warehouses. One the place I’d say the palate is barely forward of the nostril, which is a pleasant subversion for a change. 
SGP: 651 – 91 factors. 

Tamdhu 1967/2002 (52.5%, Moon Import for Japan, The Animals, hogshead, cask #12)
Color: very deep gold. Nostril: fairly sensational, pairs the total beehive impact of the G&M however solely with extra energy, extra freshness, extra ripe yellow fruits and a extra vivid waxy character. Globally although, the profiles are fairly shut, with extra notes of sandalwood, face cream, lanolin and fruit teas, dried citrus peels and crystallised unique fruit notes. With water: somewhat plenty of pineapple, with hints of juniper wooden, caraway and linseed oil. Reasonably extra mild and aromatic now I’d say. Mouth: maybe not as luminous because the nostril however nonetheless flying excessive. I discover the wooden a bit spicier right here with pink peppercorn, clove, star anise and camphor. Additionally resinous fir woods and waxes aplenty. With water: will get broader and little extra balanced between fruits and spices, properly warming peppery notes, cedar wooden, floor ginger, lemon balm and different mild medicinal implications. I discover an growing natural high quality too. End: medium with mild unique fruits, dried pineapple and delicate waxes. Feedback: we’re again in additional acquainted order with the nostril being a few notches forward of the palate general, however globally I discover it just about the identical high quality because the older G&M. 
SGP: 651 – 91 factors.