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Key Facts About This Scotch

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Distillery: Glen Elgin

Region: Speyside, Scotland

Distilled: 2009

Bottled: 2023

Spirit: Single malt scotch whisky

Cask Type: Single cask, Sauternes Finish

Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength, 54.1%

Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration

Outturn: 326 bottles

Bottle Size: 700ml

Glen Elgin 2009 Tasting Notes

Colour: Mulled cider.

Nose: Panettone, warm buttered pancakes, gooseberry jam.

Palate: Bread and butter pudding, custard and campino sweets.

Finish: Star fruit, gingerbread and yellow chartreuse.

About this Little Brown Dog release

A spirit as delicate and intricate as Glen Elgin deserves gentle treatment. You have to be really careful to match spirit with wood as it would be easy to overwhelm it and loose what’s so special about it.

When Andrew and Chris decided they needed to finish this cask at the beginning of the year, they paired it with an exceptional Sauternes cask that they imported themselves direct from France.

Only 400 genuine Sauternes casks are released each year from the region, although many more casks are sold as Sauternes. As such dried out knackered red wine casks are sometimes lasered, then pressure washed with a sweet dessert wine and marketed as Sauternes. Casks like this would not be anywhere near as good as the real deal, hence the effort and expense Andrew and Chris felt necessary to source the real deal.

The results have created a whisky with incredible texture and a buttery minerality, that Andrew and Chris are 'affa chuffed wae', as they don’t say in Bordeaux.

The label depicts vineyards at sunset.

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