Green Spot 10 Year Old 100 Year Anniversary Limited Edition

This story dates back over a century, to when Mitchell & Son – founded in 1805 as a Dublin bakery and confectionery business, and run today by the 6th and 7th generations of the Mitchell family – expanded into the wine trade in 1887, and then started filling new make spirit from the nearby Jameson Distillery into their own casks. They’d mark how long they planned to let them mature by daubing coloured ‘spots’ of paint on each one (green, red, blue, etc.).

This is single pot still Irish whiskey. A quintessentially Irish style made with both malted and unmalted barley. Green Spot was first advertised in The Irish Times back in 1925, with this limited edition marking its 100th anniversary. It’s aged in bourbon and sherry casks like the regular Green Spot, but where that’s aged between 7-10 years and bottled at 40%, this is aged for at least 10 years and bottled at 46%. Nice.