Little Brown Dog Balblair 12 Year Old

Name: Little Brown Dog Balblair 12 Year Old
Brand: Little Brown Dog
SKU: LBD-BLB-12-561
Price: 141.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$141.00

Key Facts About This Scotch

Bottler: Little Brown Dog

Distillery: Balblair

Region: Highlands, Scotland

Age: 12 years old

Distilled: 05/04/2014

Bottled: 05/05/2026

Spirit: Single malt scotch whisky

Cask Type: White port and calvados cask finish

Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength, 56.1%

Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration

Outturn: 290 bottles

Bottle Size: 700ml

Balblair 12 Year Old Tasting Notes

Colour: Daffodil.

Nose: Fresh lemon, ice cream wafer, green apple.

Palate: Gooseberry, apple butter, plum crumble.

Finish: Apple skins, dry champagne, green chilli.

About this Little Brown Dog release

Little Brown Dog are big advocats for Calvados, a spirit that deserves far more attention. And this Blablair is the first of their Calvados cask finished whiskies, although technically it’s an ex-white port then calvados cask finish.

Sometimes disasters happen in whisky. The two 250L casks of Balblair that fitted into a small calvados cask are an example of one of these disasters. They should not have fitted, but they did, with room to spare. The angels’ share was savage. Luckily, this is a tasty disaster. A little over 18 months in the calvados cask has wonderfully elevated the spirit. It’s got that extra hit of bright green apples and a champagne-like finish.

Andrew and Chris decided to use the calvados cask for a finish as they thought it would pair well with the fruity clear wart, long-fermented Balblair distillate.

Uncommon distillery, with an uncommon cask finish, from a special cask that Andrew and Chris brought back from Normandy ourselves, there’s a lot of Little Brown Dog’s heart in this one.

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Little Brown Dog Balblair 12 Year Old

$141.00

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Meet The Founders

Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid

Little Brown Dog Spirits was founded by Dr Andrew Smith and Chris Reid. They run an independent bottler and micro-distillery based in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

They take their name from Andrew’s beloved dog, whose nickname was the little brown dog. She followed him everywhere on all his distillery visits and was his constant companion. She passed away in 2022 aged 15 but lives on in spirit. Two more little brown dogs, Winnie and Peedie joined the team in 2020 and 2023.

Chris and Andrew started Little Brown Dog in 2018. Based on Chris’s farm they combine a passion for their surrounding area with in-depth knowledge (read intense geekery!) of distilling and cask maturation.

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