A1994 bottling of Glen Elgin done for duty-free and selected foreign markets.

Still integral to the White Horse blend and ranked 'top class' by blenders, Glen Elgin was the last distillery to be built on Speyside for nearly 60 years after its completion in 1900. It briefly appeared in the Flora & Fauna range but Diageo soon decided to draw more attention to four of their malts - Glen Elgin, Caol Ila, Clynelish, and Glen Ord - by creating the Hidden Malts range.

Glen Elgin was built in at the very end of the 19th century, with distilling commencing in 1900. Its success was sporadic in the early days, but it eventually joined DCL in 1930 as part of their White Horse Distillers arm. Unusually, the distillery had no electricity until 1950, and was entirely powered by paraffin until then. Although a key component in their blends, the fruity character of Glen Elgin was deemed worthy of being bottled as a single malt too, appearing as a 12 year old under White Horse branding from as early as the 1970s. Today this 12 year old remains the only permanent release.

In the DCL days, the distilleries in its portfolio were licensed to its blending companies. Glen Elgin, along with Lagavulin were part of White Horse, and both were bottled with the blenders name prominently featured in the 1980s. When United Distillers succeeded DCL, one of their first orders of business was to reclaim control of the distribution of their single malts. The process of cancelling these contracts was quicker for some distilleries than others, and some of the early Classic Malts still bore the names of these former licensees. It was not until 2001 that they reclaimed Glen Elgin, bottling it briefly under the Flora & Fauna banner before launching its own single malt brand in 2002.