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Green Spot is undoubtedly one of the best affordable Irish whiskeys on the market in my opinion.
Main Post: Green Spot is undoubtedly one of the best affordable Irish whiskeys on the market in my opinion.
Top Comment: Your opinion is correct
Review #32: Green Spot
Main Post: Review #32: Green Spot
Top Comment: After my first encounter with the Redbreast 12, the opinion from all quarters seemed to be that I needed to try Midelton’s other great entry level offering: Green Spot. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, this bottle has been next to impossible to find for the better part of the past year. I don’t know how these things happen—or how they only seem to happen with this particular province—but everywhere else I seem to go, this is on the shelves of every liquor store. At any rate, we finally got a shipment here a couple months back (quite a large one, it seems; they must’ve sent in extras to make up for the deficit), so of course, I leapt on it. Which brings us to the present moment. Was it worth the wait? Let’s see. Green Spot Cask: Bourbon & sherry casks Price: $80 CAD ABV: 40% Age: NAS Chill filtered. Color added. Nose: Bright red apples coated in caramel. Shortbread and vanilla icing. Granola. A slightly brown butter note that’s quite nice. Something vaguely grapey in here. Palate: The apples take on this sort of cooked down aspect, almost like in a tarte tatin. Some spiced nuts on the mid-palate along with vanilla and honey. It seems to waver back and forth between the sweetness and the light baking spices in this rather creamy admixture. Has a bit more body to it than you might assume from the ABV. Finish: Caramel sweetness and some of those baked apples slowly transforming into this butteriness before ending up at this somewhat unusual grape note. Perhaps the very slightest of menthol notes right at the end? Comments: A really solid entry level offering from (arguably) the greatest distillery operating in Ireland today. It’s delicious, it’s got some character, and it comes in at a decent price point. The only problem for me, however, is that this is just $4 shy of the Redbreast 12, and if I’m looking to go in for an Irish whiskey at less than $100, I’m going with the Redbreast every time. Still, a pretty good dram. Score: 85/100 Scoring Scale: 0-19 Dumpster fire of a dram. Hot garbage. 20-39 There are worse things out there. Like syphilis. This is barely better than syphilis. 40-49 Probably got this as a gift from someone who knows nothing about whisky other than the fact that you drink it. Use it for mixing or cooking. 50-59 Probably bought this yourself on a gamble because you couldn’t find any reviews of it. Turns out there’s a reason no one’s reviewed it. Use it for mixing or give it away. 60-69 A’ight. Would break this out for people who claim they like whisky when what they really mean is 40% ABV on ice. 70-79 Not bad. Would absolutely serve to undiscriminating guests, but wouldn’t buy another bottle. 80-84 Now we’re talking. Would serve this to guests who know a thing or two about whisky, but not a ton—we’re not trying to impress them that much here. 85-89 Would break this out for people who know their Islays from their Highlands and you’re looking to impress them just a bit, like your boss or your father-in-law. 90-94 Holy shit, what is this sorcery? Definitely stocking up on this. Share only with people who know and appreciate whisky as much, if not more, than you. 95-100 Sweet baby Jesus. Absolute perfection. Would buy another bottle, but probably can’t find one or even afford it. Not sharing this with anyone except my best friend or my firstborn.
Just learned about Green Spot, and it's the new star of my bar. My god it's delicious!
Main Post: Just learned about Green Spot, and it's the new star of my bar. My god it's delicious!
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Recently got a bottle myself. It’s second only behind Redbreast 12 for me in Irish whisky! Can’t wait to give the Yellow Spot a shot sometime.
Passed on Green Spot for $37, am I going to regret it?
Main Post: Passed on Green Spot for $37, am I going to regret it?
Top Comment: Green Spot is pretty damn good. If you ever wanted to try it, you can’t beat that price.
Review # 9: Green Spot Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey
Main Post: Review # 9: Green Spot Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey
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I prefer Red Breast over Green Spot but this does make a really nice highball!
Try it 1:2 whiskey/soda
Thanks for the review.
What do people think of the Green Spot?
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It’s such a montreal classic, which is why I ask. I used to go there all the time but haven’t been back since I moved back here. What’s the general opinion, and how has it held up since the pandemic?
Top Comment: same as it ever was
A review of: Green Spot
Main Post: A review of: Green Spot
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Whiskey Network Review #231, r/WorldWhisky Review #36, Irish Review #13
Price: $58
Appearance: Deep Gold
Nose: apricot, sherry, watermelon, vanilla, grass, lemon,
Taste: oak, lemon grass, parsley, sherry, brown sugar, caramel, apricot, pepper, baking spices
Finish: medium short, sherry oak
Notes: I have seen this highly regarded, but to me it was just ok. I love Redbreast 12 and 15, and was looking to try more pot still style whiskies, which led me to Green Spot, but I do not detect the grassy notes that I got from Redbreast, and I think this has been over sherried. Irish whisky tends to have very delicate flavors and with this I think the sherry overpowers the rest of the flavors. It more reminds me of something like Dalmore ,in that it seems a bit over processed that it gets sort of generic. Had I spent $30 on this I probably wouldn’t be as critical. Its not bad, but nothing sets it apart from the competition.
Something similar but better: Redbreast 12
Something similar but worse: Bushmills 10
Rating: 5
10 Desert island bottle
9 Personal favorite
8 I would like to keep a bottle of this open at all times
7 Good enough that I would buy the occasional bottle
6 Above average, would drink again
5 Average\Run of the mill
4 Drinkable, but not my preference, mixer
3 I wouldn’t choose to drink this.
2 Just gulp it and get it over with
1 Couldn’t finish it
green spot or yellow?
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Hello fellow whiskey aficionados...I'm just about done my bottle of Redbreast 12, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. I want to try a bottle of green spot or yellow spot. I've tried both while in Ireland a few years back but don't remember having a preference. Probably because I was a newbie to Irish whiskey back then. Thoughts?
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I like them both, but I prefer Green Spot. Yellow spot has a more complex flavor, and it's very good, but I find Green Spot to be more...drinkable?
Green Spot [Review]
Main Post: Green Spot [Review]
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Sometimes you have one of those great weekends. Last weekend was one of those awesome times. My wife is a huge Star Trek fan, and for her birthday I bought her tickets to see the full TNG cast do a Q&A at the recent Toronto Comic con. It's quite hilarious.
As a reward to myself for being an awesome husband, I decided to try some Irish Whisky at our favourite Irish pub near the convention center, the Overdraught. And since it's so hard to get, I ordered the Green Spot single pot still Irish whiskey. Just in time for St. Patrick's Day.
Well, that's not true. In fact I wanted to order the Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey, though they were out, so I went for a normally very pricey Irish (in Ontario).
Green Spot is a blend of 8 and 9 year old single pot still Irish whiskey, 25% of which are matured in sherry casks. It's somewhat rare, as only 500 cases are made a year, so keep an eye out for it.
Region: Ireland
Abv: 40%
Price: $85.10 (CAD)
Colour: Yellow food colouring stains
Nose: Sour grapes, banana, bread dough, light mint candy, perfume
Light nose on this one. It has that yeast smell to it. It's unique to what I've been drinking lately, and has a refreshing smell to it. It's almost a hodge podge of different flavours, though there's enough similarities to come together.
Taste: Peppermint, basil, jalapeño, pizza dough, lime, truffle oil, garlic
Very herbal. And Italian food like. Kinda odd. It's evolving from the nose though, which is more than I can say for some other whiskeys I've reviewed. Sometimes you get this manic insane meandering from the nose to the taste and then lost in the woods with the finish, wondering where your pants are, hair full of leaves.
Getting back to the Gentlemanly Green Spot, that would never even consider the forest, I almost wish they used more sherry casks on it, as I think more fruit would help it out.
Finish: Vinegar, orange rind, yeasty, cardamon, cilantro, pretzel
Medium length on the finish here. I'm missing some of the sherry influence on this. I was expecting more strawberry, though it ends up with more of a vinegar/orange rind at the end. Perhaps it's a different sherry than what I'm used to. Perhaps I'm not as worldly as I like to be concerning sherry. Both are possibilities.
Conclusion: To tell you the truth, I was interested in this whiskey because they didn't have the first one I ordered. I normally wouldn't try it, because the price is too prohibitive for an Irish. That all said, it was surprisingly nice, and probably one of the best Irish whiskeys I've ever had. I want to try the Yellow Spot now, and will be trying to find better as I go. Recommend you try a dram.
82/100