Green Spot Château Montelena 70cl 46°
Green Spot Château Montelena is the second Irish whiskey in the "Wine Geese" collection after the highly successful Green Spot Château Léoville Barton.
This collection is an adaptation of the term "Wild Geese", which meant Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland to serve the European armies between the 16th and 18th centuries, then more broadly to designate all the Irish emigrating at that time.
The "Wine Geese" then made wine by growing some of the world's most renowned vineyards from Bordeaux to Napa (California).
This collection pays tribute to these workers with exceptional maturations.
Distilled 3 times in pot stills at the Midleton Distillery (Cork) from a blend of 40% malted barley (non-peated) and 60% non-malted barley. This Château Montelena Green Spot whiskey is first aged in traditional Bourbon and Sherry casks before enjoying a 12-month maturation in French oak barrels that have contained Zinfandel (Californian red wine) from the Château Montelena in the California Napa Valley.
A true celebration of Irish heritage, the collaboration between Green Spot and Château Montelena marks the meeting of two unique experiences.
The whiskey develops very rich notes during the tasting with red apple, pear and red fruit aromas with spices and complexity. Vanilla, citrus and toasty oak complete an aromatic spectrum of great quality.
| Volume | 0.7 L |
| ABV | 46° |
| Type | Single Pot Still |
| Distillery | Midleton |
| Country | Ireland |
| Region | County Cork |
| Peat | Non Peated |
| Reference: | 23604 |
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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