About Yellow Spot
Yellow Spot is part of the Spot Whiskey family created by Mitchell & Son, the Dublin wine merchants and whiskey bonders whose roots go back to 1805. Mitchell & Son moved into whiskey bonding in 1887, buying new make pot still whiskey, maturing it in wine and fortified wine casks, and marking those casks with painted spots to show their intended age. Yellow marked the 12-year-old whiskey in the range. Yellow Spot later disappeared for decades before returning in 2012, bringing back one of the old Mitchell family styles alongside Green Spot.
Yellow Spot is still one of the clearest examples of that older Dublin bonder style. It is a single pot still Irish whiskey matured for at least 12 years in three cask types — bourbon barrels, sherry butts and Malaga casks — rather than simply being finished in one of them at the end. That full-term maturation in Malaga casks is what gives Yellow Spot its distinctive place within the Spot range.