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Faultline Blended Scotch Whisky
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed
March 22, 2022 (edited February 17, 2023)
N: Charcoal fire with vegetables and fruit roasting above it. Honey, herbal tea, cut flowers, and vanilla. Plenty of heathery, earthy peat. Little bit of a grain alcohol ethanol thing, but not bad and seems fair for the price.
P: Cooked vegetables, honey, and vanilla. White bread and butter. Good, rich caramel and a bit of milk chocolate when you inhale across it. That chocolate builds and layers into the finish with some barrel heat and baking spice. Definitely has a grainy, cereal alcohol burn, but, again, it seems to fit the dram and feels okay at the price point.
This is the most peaty blended scotch I can remember having. And while my review is really probably a bit mixed, I still love it for that peat character. You just don't get this much island character for less than about double the price. The trade off is that you get some astringency and rough edges. I'm perfectly okay with that and will likely snag a bottle of this each time I stop by K&L.
Thanks to @ctbeck11 (via @jonwilkinson7309) for the recommendation over on Discord.
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I would love to know what the blend is. The peat does feel a bit like Ardbeg in its aggressiveness, but there's a bit of a Highland Park floral in it too. The bottle just says peated "island" whisky is in the blend. The underlying grain component feels a bit aggressive too - almost a white lightning feeling. It's definitely unique - only comparison I can really think of is to say this is a less polished version of Glasgow Blend. And I like it for that.
Wow…$25 ?!?! Can’t get too many solid offerings at that price. Anything below that, we’re in gut-rot / rogue-backwoods moonshine blindness-inducing territory
Agreed. There are some flaws, but I can’t think of any peated blends I like better at the $25 price point. Most are bottom shelf swill when you go that low.