Glen Elgin 2013 13 Year Old, Little Brown Dog

Glen Elgin is a distillate that Little Brown Dog return to regularly, but one that calls for a more delicate approach to cask maturation. This expression comes from a single refill Pineau des Charentes barrique, a less common cask type that allows the character of the spirit to remain at the forefront.

The whisky was distilled in 2013 and matured for 13 years, with the refill cask contributing to its texture and balance without overpowering the Glen Elgin distillate.

The label features a meadow and grasshopper, inspired by a summer Andrew spent as a teenager in the Charentes region of France with his brother. Staying with distant relatives, the pair were supposed to improve their French, although apparently their linguistic progress was questionable at best. They did, however, develop a taste for the local Pineau aperitif and spent plenty of time attempting to catch grasshoppers in the surrounding meadows.

That trip provided the inspiration for both the cask selection and the label, giving this bottle a rather personal connection to the region that supplied its unusual finishing cask.