Back in 2001 when Compass Box founder John Glaser abandoned Johnnie Walker to create his own blends, he started his journey with a blended malt called "Eleuthera". Two years later, one of the components was lost forever. John Glaser, in 2004 after reading an O'Henry tale called "The Lost Blend", (where two bartenders created a supernatural blend with special powers); he decided to create a blend that mimics that first Eleuthera, and he called it "The Lost Blend". He even designed 3 different labels and a very interesting box, which is full of pictures of "lost" objects, some lost in time, other extinct. This Blended Malt, is made with Clynelish, Alt-a-Bhainne and Caol Ila. Bottled at 46%abv., pale straw color. On the nose, fairly peaty. Very maritime, salt, sea. Chocolate with salt, lemon. After a first sip, the aroma changed into a pond, rainforest profile. Recently cut wet grass, permanent marker. A metallic one cent coin. On the palate, a good mixture between sweetness and peaty flavors. Chocolate, pepper, sulphuric and metallic. Wet grass, vanilla. Aaftertaste is balanced. Salty, sulphuric, metallic. Ginger and hay. Cigarrette, ashy. Overall, this expression mantains my love/hate relationship with Compass Box. I really think that Caol Ila overpowered the other malts, this could be a single malt from that Islay distillery and nothing else. I feel the blending failed a little here, and it didn't surprise me at all. Other people in my tasting event loved it, but this really didn't do much for me. Not bad at all, just not my favorite. My score for it is 84 over 100.