Greenspot - older Bottling

[danny56712]

Only having recently became interested / fascinated by Irish Whiskey I have only had the pleasures of trying the latest Greenspot available!

However I am led the believe the older bottling from a few years back is far superior and i do like the latest one. I have searched but they seem now pretty non available!!

A friend has an older screwcap bottle he has told me and would sell for the right offer but would prefer keep it as is top quality in comparison to newer versions of the beautiful spot.

Anyway does anyone know what a good decent offer would be - in my opinion its unavailable and i know will carry a premium but just how much? - any idea on decent fair offer as do not wanna offend him either?

All opinions welcome...but oh would i like a dram!

[Good Whiskey Hunting]

You could try http://whiskyauction.com ,they have one on their auction at the end of the month.

Previous auction result were €45-63. At €65 say you have to pay postage and packaging. The total would come to €87 I think.

[danny56712]

Yes i was thinking with regular bottle approaching €50 this must be approaching €100

Thanks mate

[JohnM]

Personally, the old one is not far superior to the one currently available. I think there may be younger whiskey in the newer one, but am not sure.

[pigs nose]

The old one was a blend, with (I believe) a bit more barley pot still spirit than say powers, but not as much as a pure pot still such as redbreast.

In true hipster style, there is nothing better or worse about a blend than a pps, nor of a younger whiskey over an older one. However, blended whiskey is cheaper. And younger whiskey is also cheaper. So the Green Spot before the current one was a cheaper quality whiskey than the redbreast 12 of its era, yet they were both selling for the similar prices.

Old green spot was a quirky whiskey, new greenspot is a lighter, fresher version of redbreast 12 (IMO).

So in terms of value, if your eccentric collection of late 90s - mid 2000s whiskey collection is incomplete without this bottle, then maybe it is worth €87-100. If you just want a good drinking whiskey, it is worse (IMO) than current GS but more interesting than say ordinary powers 12 and so it is worth maybe €30-50. If you want to do a side by side whiskey geek comparison, it's probably worth somewhere between the two.

Or, if you are crazy, you could buy the Greenspot 10 year old PPS from that era for an eye watering €250:

http://mitchellandson.com/spirits/type/ ... rettyPhoto

As an aside, the fact that all these whiskies are now selling for €50+ is slightly scary. There was a time when they were only a few euro between a standard jameson or black bush and a redbreast 12 (I just looked up an old thread on boards where in Christmas '08 they were selling redbreast 12 for €31.50 - current redbreast 12 is €59 in CWS). Standard blends haven't gone up much and have in some instances gotten cheaper.

[JohnM]

When was Green Spot a blend?

There were suggestions that it was a blend a few years ago because it did not say pot still on the bottle but I was told it was definitely a pps. Does anybody know otherwise?

[pigs nose]

When was Green Spot a blend?

There were suggestions that it was a blend a few years ago because it did not say pot still on the bottle but I was told it was definitely a pps. Does anybody know otherwise?

I was told that the change between the different bottlings was because the pps/sps style was taking off at that time, and that the only greenspot that was pps and called pps were the 10 and 12 y.o. special editions.

But again, I suppose the only way to know for sure is to do a side by side tasting of old, new, powers and redbreast! Didn't the society do a greenspot tasting night a while ago:

http://www.liquidirish.com/2012/01/gree ... iskey.html

[IrishWhiskeyChaser]

The old one was a blend, with (I believe) a bit more barley pot still spirit than say powers, but not as much as a pure pot still such as redbreast.

I'd be of the opinion of JohnM and I Don't think it ever was a blend however we need to be careful about the use of the word blend at times as the Master Distillers would "blend" various pure pot still types to get the style required.

However back to topic, I personally feel the style changed before the new bottle and label came about and it was back in the late 2000's my guess is 5-6 years ago but that is only just that a guess.

[Good Whiskey Hunting]

You could try http://whiskyauction.com ,they have one on their auction at the end of the month.

Previous auction result were €45-63. At €65 say you have to pay postage and packaging. The total would come to €87 I think.

Previous auction result were €45-63. At €65 say you have to pay postage and packaging. The total would come to €87 I think.[/quote]


That went for €129 after. A mental price I think, but someone wanted it.