In the past we have tasted many excellent whiskies by Wemyss, an independent company that must be recognized as being among the first to bet on the blended whisky gentrification (!?). That is a real fact nowadays. Today we go back to Wemyss and we taste a blended malt that we expect to be very honeyed: it is in fact called The Hive. and apparently it is guilty of being bottled at 40%.
N: it has a sticky note that recalls jams and immediately a definitive image comes to mind: a toast with apricot or peaches jam and butter. We could end it here, but since we don’t like to do those who deny themselves, let’s also say tangerine and a bit of cardboard. Cardboard? Yeah.
P: it’s pretty dry and one-dimensional. It is all on cliché, such as toffee and cereal, then on the bridge flies a yellow flag (like the fruit we feel: peach and apricot again) and a touch of bitterness that comes in the end.
F: medium-short, bittersweet, between cardboard and a slightly astringent woody. Peach pit.
This blended malt can also be interesting on the nose, with its maltiness and its fruity nuances, but the palate is very simple and not very well integrated. We expect more from Wemyss, and we say it with the same face Mancini had in front of Balotelli: 78/100.
Recommended soundtrack: Marianne Faithfull – Guilt.
