Petit Chien Brun Christian Drouin 6 Year Old Sauternes Barrique

Name: Petit Chien Brun Christian Drouin 6 Year Old Sauternes Barrique
Brand: Little Brown Dog
SKU: LBD-CDR-06-479
Price: 69.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

£69.95

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Key Facts About This Calvados

Bottler: Little Brown Dog

Distillery: Christian Drouin

Distilled: 2018

Bottled: 2025

Region: Normandy, France

Spirit: Calvados brandy

Cask Type: Single Sauternes cask

Alcohol by Volume: 47.9%

Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration

Outturn: 213 bottles

Bottle Size: 700ml

Christian Drouin 6 Year Old Tasting Notes

Colour: Polished brass.

Nose: 1990s health food shop, stewed apple, cinnamon.

Palate: Mirabelle, sugar coated fennel seeds, golden syrup.

Finish: Candied peel, cinnamon buns.

Overall: Softer, sweeter, incredible texture, a magnificent introduction to how good Pays D’Auge Calvados can be. Chris’s favourite of the cask picks, that’s why we ended up bringing home two casks as we couldn’t decide on one!

About this Little Brown Dog release

Little Brown Dog's continued mission to promote this incredible spirit and get more people to experience it. This really is a labour of love for team LBD. These casks were purchased during Chris and Andrew's last trip to Normandy in June 2024. It has taken nearly a year to bring them home, they had originally thought these would be out before Christmas 2024! Again working with Christian Drouin, they’ve developed an excellent relationship here which really does get them access to some of their best stock. They also release some of their calvados casks to them for filling with whiskies, something to look forward to in the future.

Chris and Andrew just love this stuff and really do believe these two Petit Chien Brun casks (The Arran cask and the Sauternes cask) must be amongst some of the absolute best Calvados on the market in the UK.

Pays d’auge so it’s double pot distilled rather than column distilled and it’s just wonderful liquid. The pot distillation creates a richer, heavier distillate that preserves more apple oomph, that’s almost certainly the correct technical term.

Distilled at the idyllic Christian Drouin distillery in Normandy, please go and visit if you get the chance, it is how one imagines a Disney distillery would look. Below are some shots from Chris and Andrew's cask sampling trip to the distillery in Normandy; it's a tough life.

This single cask calvados was filled into a Sauternes, sweet dessert wine cask in 2018 and bottled in April 2025. It is softer than many Calvas, just silky on the palate and if this is your introduction to Calvados then wow, what a start!

Apple blossom label celebrates the many varieties of apples grown to produce the complex cider for distillation. Chris and Andrew absolutely loved this cask and you're bound to too.

No water added by Little Brown but likely watered in cask. It’s typical for water to be added to the casks over a number of years for calvados, rather than at bottling, but you knew that already… Natural colour and non-chill filtered.

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Petit Chien Brun Christian Drouin 6 Year Old Sauternes Barrique

£69.95

Dr Andrew Smith, Little Brown Dog Spirits

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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