Blue Spot

It’s 100 years since the entire Spot family were reunited. Mitchell and Sons Yellow and Green Spot did the heavy lifting over the past few decades, bringing home new fans bottle-by-bottle, until there was such a crescendo of support for this old Dublin brand that its makers couldn’t but reintroduce the Red and Blue Spot.

Blue spot was the last to arrive and with it came anticipation that hasn’t seen the like since Redbreast created the Dream Cask. And what a whiskey. It’s a cask strength seven-year-old single pot still bottled at 58.7%. Matured in Madeira, Bourbon and Sherry, it’s a wonderful marriage of great whiskey and international flavours.

Rooted firmly in the past, it has brought old-school distilling and production methods back to life around 56 years after we last saw them. Made today in Midelton in association with its original Mitchell and Sons makers, it’s a slice of Irish whiskey history. Destined to be an annual release, if you see it buy it.