{"id":15290,"date":"2018-11-15T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/red-spot-whiskey-relaunch-the-top-spot-in-dublin\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T11:20:06","slug":"red-spot-whiskey-relaunch-the-top-spot-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/blog\/post\/red-spot-whiskey-relaunch-the-top-spot-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Spot Whiskey relaunch &#8211; the top spot in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To celebrate the rebirth of Red Spot whiskey, we descended into Mitchell &amp; Son\u2019s cellars deep beneath the streets of Dublin for a trip back into Irish distilling history (and we got to try the whiskey, obviously.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Mitchell from the family-owned wine merchant described the relaunch as &#8220;the biggest day of all, we&#8217;ve had orders for Red Spot for two years.&#8221; We were at the historic Shelbourne Hotel and from there we walked to Mitchell &amp; Son\u2019s old cellars beneath Fitzwilliam Lane to try the long-awaited whiskey. The family has been in business since 1805 but their whiskey story starts in 1887 when they began sending empty casks of port, sherry, Malaga and Marsala to the John Jameson and Sons distillery at nearby Bow Street to be filled with spirit. This would have been made from a mixture of malted and unmalted barley, triple-distilled in a giant pot still.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These casks matured in Mitchell\u2019s bonded cellars. At the time Jameson didn\u2019t bottle whiskey, it was entirely in the hands of businesses like the Mitchell\u2019s. According to Jonathan Mitchell, after 5 to 7 years ageing they would daub the cask with a coloured spot according to its ageing potential; red was the top designation. It was in the \u201820s when these whiskies began to be marketed using this system, with Green Spot being the best known. Bottles carried both the name of Jameson and Mitchell &amp; Son. Jonathan Mitchell described Green Spot as a \u201ccult whiskey\u201d; it was the in-thing for fashionable Dubliners to drink. Samuel Beckett was an enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"polaroid\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/redspot3.jpg\" alt=\"Spot Whiskey\" \/><em>Fashionable and delicious<\/em><\/center>But Irish whiskey was in decline. Whiskey bonding (maturation and bottling by independent merchants) died out in the 1960s. Jameson closed in 1976, and production moved to Midleton. Green Spot survived, now distilled and aged in Cork to the original specifications, but the other Spots had already been discontinued. At one time Green Spot was the only single pot still whiskey available, a last surviving link to Ireland\u2019s glorious distilling past. It was only made in limited quantities, and very hard to find outside Ireland. Irish whiskey lovers would ask friends to bring a bottle home from Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully the dark days are over. Irish Distillers reintroduced Yellow Spot in 2012 to great acclaim, and the whiskey world has been salivating at the the thought of the return of the top spot. Kevin O\u2019 Gorman, master of maturation at Midleton, told us that they were fortunate in having &#8220;good records for original recipes.&#8221; Though according to Carol Quinn, archivist at Midleton, it is &#8220;not a replica, but inspired by Red Spot of old, it\u2019s a whiskey for the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"polaroid\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/redspot2.jpg\" alt=\"Spot whiskey\" \/><em>Red Spot Returns<\/em><\/center>The new Red Spot is a 15 year old made up of three parts, aged separately and then blended. The first two elements spent their life in oloroso and bourbon casks respectively, whereas the final component spent five years in bourbon barrels before being transferred to Marsala casks in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>At 46%, it\u2019s an opulent drop, that sweetness from the fortified wines really comes through on the nose with toffee and dried fruit. On the palate it has that classic creamy pot still texture with flavours of honey, toffee and cinnamon, plus some fresh peachy notes. Kevin O\u2019 Gorman described it as \u201ca bold whiskey that packs a punch, has incredibly rich flavours and an extra-long infusion of fruits and spices on the finish that provides a truly unique and colourful ending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We tried it alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/spot-whiskey\/green-spot-single-pot-still-whiskey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Spot<\/a> (NAS but contains whiskies between 7 and 10 years old) which is distinctively fruity with green apple notes, and the delectable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/spot-whiskey\/yellow-spot-12-year-old-whiskey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yellow Spot<\/a> (12 years with some Malaga wine influence) which is all cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e and cinnamon.They were all very different yet recognisably from the same family. There\u2019s also two special Green Spots: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/spot-whiskey\/green-spot-chateau-leoville-barton-irish-whiskey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one finished in Ch\u00e2teau Leoville-Barton Bordeaux casks<\/a> for 24 months; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/spot-whiskey\/green-spot-chateau-montelena-whiskey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one in Napa Zinfandel casks from Ch\u00e2teau Montelena<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"polaroid\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/redspot1.jpg\" alt=\"Spot Whiskey\" \/><em>Red Spot, reunited with its siblings<\/em><\/center>But that\u2019s not the end. There\u2019s still one more to go, a Blue Spot that was originally a 7 year old whiskey. Do Irish Distillers have any plans to release it? O\u2019 Gorman said that they \u201clook forward to one day completing the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/distilleries\/spot-whiskey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spot Whiskeys<\/a> range.\u201d So we\u2019ll take that as a yes then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Spot is now available in Ireland for \u20ac115 and will be available in Britain, France, and the US early next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the rebirth of Red Spot whiskey, we descended into Mitchell &amp; Son\u2019s cellars deep beneath the streets of Dublin for a trip back into Irish distilling history (and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":15291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[907],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Spot Whiskey relaunch - the top spot in Dublin | Master of Malt blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To celebrate the rebirth of Red Spot whiskey, we descended into Mitchell &amp; 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