Not a lot of cheap blends are as good as this. Consisent year to year, full, sweet, just a hint of smoke. Not watery like most similar blends are. Really great bang for buck. Reccomend for making Penicillin cocktails. If you’re in America and can’t find peaty scotch on a budget my best advice is to buy a $30 smoke gun on amazon and smoke a glass of this. That won’t make it into Lagavulin but it will get much closer than you'd expect.