The Lost Distillery Company's goal is to blend whiskies together with the goal of approximating a distillery which no longer exists - apparently they do extensive research to facilitate their blending. With this bottle they are trying to "recreate" the old Lossit distillery on Islay. See my EARLIER REVIEW. I recently stumbled across a second bottle of this stuff (they are relatively uncommon in my area), and wanted to see how it held up to my memory. Let's see what the Lossit spirit might have tasted like, at 43% ABV...
I found another great offering from the Lost Distillery Company: the Archivist Collection bottle of their recreation of the distillery of Gerston. Gerston, when it was open, would have been the northernmost Highland distillery - located in Halkirk, it would have been farther even than Old Pulteney or Clynelish.
The Lost Distillery Company (link here) is a company in the vein of Compass Box - premium quality blends of single malt scotch. However, they have a very specific ambition: as their name implies, they attempt to recreate long lost single malts by doing very extensive research and then blending whiskies together to approximate what the original might have been like.
In the case of Lossit, an Islay distillery that stopped production in 1862 (!), I can't imagine there are any bottles left, so they must have really had their job cut out for them. Their website says they take ten different factors into account - things like ingredients, equipment, production method, location, etc. - when attempting to recreate something like Lossit, so theoretically this bottle uses single malts that draw from the same waters, the same type of barley from the same locations, use the same type of still, etc.
