Blue Spot 7 Years Old Single Pot Still 70cl 58.90°
Blue Spot takes its name from the Mitchell family tradition of marking their barrels of maturing whiskey with coloured paint stamps to determine the potential age of the whiskey. Historically, Blue Spot represented a 7-year-old whiskey, alongside the famous Green Spot (10 years), Yellow Spot (12 years) and Red Spot (15 years).
After more than 56 years of waiting, Blue Spot finally reappears, bringing together the historic Spot family in a very special edition. This whiskey embodies the exceptional qualities of the Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey. It has been aged for a minimum of seven years in a combination of Bourbon, Sherry and Portuguese Madeira casks, and is bottled cask strength to provide a unique and authentic taste experience.
Blue Spot is the result of a remarkable heritage and incomparable expertise. It has the richness of flavours, the complexity of aromas and the subtlety of nuances, characteristic of Single Pot Still Irish whiskeys. Its meticulous ageing and the influence of the different types of barrels give Blue Spot a splendid depth and intensity of taste.
| Volume | 0.7 L |
| ABV | 58.9 ° |
| Type | Single Pot Still |
| Distillery | Midleton |
| Country | Ireland |
| Region | County Cork |
| Age | 7 years |
| Maturation | Bourbon, Sherry and Madeira Wine |
| Peat | Non Peated |
| Characteristics | Cask Strength & Non-Chill Filtered |
| Reference: | 25129 |
Green Spot was created for the Mitchells, a family of wine merchants that started its activity in Dublin in 1805.
In 1887, they started ageing and selling Irish whiskey, sending their empty wine, sherry and port casks to Bow Street distillery (Jameson) which would fill them before leaving them to mature in their cellars for a number of years. “Spot” refers to the marks painted by the Mitchells on the casks of different ages. To start with they used a green spot, then a blue, red and even a yellow one, but the Green Spot came out as the most successful and settled as a hallmark product. Green Spot and Yellow Spot are today owned by the Midleton distillery.
In 1966, John Jameson & Son decided to mingle with whiskey production companies John Power & Son and Cork Distillers Company and established the Irish Distillers Ltd., a sub-company today part of the Pernod-Ricard group. The complete whiskey production is today located in a new building in Midleton distillery, Cork.
Midleton is one of the most modern distilleries in the world. Its production capacity reaches near to 19 million litres a year. 13 stills are operating and make all types of Irish whiskeys combined (Irish pot still, single malt, single grain…).
The old distillery building, much more impressive, has been kept and turned into a museum. Named “The Jameson Heritage Center”, we may admire an amazing water wheel from 1852, a stationary steam machine used to power the distillery and the biggest still the world. It is in one of these old Georgian architecture stone buildings with red shutters that Barry Crockett, the current Midleton distillery Director, was born. The Old Midleton style: even with a great range of expressions, Midleton’s whiskeys develop a unique character. They have a specific fruity nose (red fruits) with a spicy backdrop and sweet notes of grains. The distillery produces exceptional pure pot still whiskeys, such as Redbreast or the famous Spot whiskeys: Green Spot and Yellow Spot.
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