Bulloch Lade's Blended Scotch Whisky

I found this whisky at a new liquor store in Washington D.C. that appeared to have bought out the stock of an older liquor store that went out of business. The bottom shelf had a handful of older blends and this was mixed in there. Bulloch Lade went out of production in 2007, but I decided to write it up on the off chance that you find a bottle and want to know if it's worth drinking. Nose: Fresh. Hay. Some lemon, honey, and green apple. Palate: More honey and some lavender. Apple juice. Fairly viscous for a blend. Finish: Mix of honey and red and green apples. Slightly bitter from grain alcohol. Whiff of peat. Pretty short, altogether. Overall: Clearly made for mixing because it doesn't have a strong personality, though it would hold up well in a scotch and soda or a Rusty Nail. I understand that Caol Ila was an important component in Bulloch Lade, which makes me wonder if it gets some of its body and the whiff of peat from the elusive non-peated version of Caol Ila (or there's actually only a small amount of the peated version in it). It's a pretty decent blended whisky, really, and every time I had it, it was better than I feared for something this cheap. It's like a less-smoky J&B. The loss of Bulloch Lade isn't exactly a tragedy, but, at this price, it is a loss.