My May Whiskey of the Month, indeed my 10th Irish Whiskey of the Month in this series, is Green Spot, a 40.0% Single Pot Still Whiskey, meaning that both malted and unmalted barley is distilled in a pot still at just the one distillery. It is distilled at the Midleton Distillery near Cork (website), where many well known Irish Distillers (website) whiskeys come from, including Jameson, Redbreast and Tullamore D.E.W. Green Spot is distilled for the wine and spirit merchants Mitchell & Son of Dublin (website), who mature this whiskey for between 7 and 10 years in new and refill bourbon casks, and then in used sherry casks.
As expected for Irish whiskeys this was triple distilled, and is a deep golden colour, with hints of orchard fruits, vanilla, honey and cinnamon in the aroma. To taste, slightly spicy at first with the hints of vanilla still there, and a sherry fruitiness, finishing off with a slightly less smooth, but warm dryness, not my favourite Irish whiskey ever but still very nice, slainte! 👍💚
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