Green Spot - Single Pot Still (750ml)
Price: $69.99
| Producer | Green Spot |
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| Country | Ireland |
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| Style | Irish Whiskey |
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| Sku | 29357 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Green Spot is a single pot Irish whiskey that is one of the few remaining bonded Irish whiskeys. Whiskey writer Jim Murry (of the Whiskey Bible) has called this small production (about 6000 bottles a year), "unquestionably one of the world's great whiskeys". A single pot whiskey uses some unmalted barley and thus cannot technically be labeled a 'single malt'. Most single malts are distilled "twice, whereas single pot still whiskeys are generally distilled three times".
Green Spot is produced for Mitchell & Son (now a subsidiary of Penrod Picard), a company formed in 1805. While it is unclear when the first Green Spot was distilled, by the 1920s Mitchell & Son were producing a whiskey using pot distillate aged in sherry barrels for five years and then for another five years in bottle. Originally Green Spot was one of many Mitchell & Son products carrying the Spot label (including Blue; Red; Yellow), but Green Spot quickly "emerged as their most popular whiskey".
Green Spot Description
The Green Spot has long been a collector's whiskey due to its quality and limited supply, and is also a single pot distillation. In fact, Midleton Distillery in County Cork is the sole remaining producer of single pot still whiskies in Ireland, and this artisanal portfolio includes both of these brands along with the Midleton and Power single pot still labels. The Green Spot being released here is the non-age statement label, vatted from 7-9 year old versions and 100% single pot still (in Ireland there are three versions of the Green Spot, including a 10 and 12 year old, as well as sibling Yellow Spot). The Green Spot is very complex but its main characteristic is a honeyed flavor that offsets its inherent spiciness, and as it is 25% Sherry aged, it as is not as sherry sweet as the Redbreast but you definitely taste the wood. The Green Spot also traces its roots to the turn of the 20th century, 12 decades ago, and is produced in very limited quantities (only 12,000 bottles each year). Famed spirit writer Jim Murray has said "Green Spot is to the true Irish whiskey drinker what the Irish Round Tower is to the archaeologist," as well as calling it, "Unquestionably one of the world's great whiskies.
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