FUCK EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU THIS IS A FANTASTIC IDEA.
Seriously. All the innovation of whisky is currently either in the hands of brand new distillers with ten years till they have decent aged stock and as much as I love young port casks, there's only so much you can do or companies who have seen the super premium red hued dalmore light and want to charge you £80 for (a pretty excellent, but still when compared to the F&F16 :( ) NAS
EXCEPT for bacardi. They have a stable of 4 (!) new mature malts with really exciting and unusual taste profiles and age statements that all non chill filtered/non caramel coloured. They also aren't cheap for the non entry level
Big blend's however have been stagnant as **** since the early 2000's when edrington decided some smoky whisky might help their blends and so the black grouse was born. Then Double Black etc etc etc and all of this wholds true for blends in general, except for Compass Box, which has been consistently really interesting and exciting and unusual and damn it if "The General" i tasted wasn't the biggest sherry bomb i ever had anyways i'm rambling
http://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2015/04/bacardi-buys-scotch-stake-in-compass-box/
What if Bacardi is planning on becoming yr favourite evil faceless multinational whisky company. Releasing weird, unusual single malts at the same time as supporting weird and ridiculous releases through compass box and hopefully letting that ethos transfer into their stuff.
It's only 26 dollars. That's £17. That's half the cost of bog standard 10 Y/0.
If it remotely tastes like the bourbon/scotch vanilla spice hit i'm hoping it is, it will be great for knocking back at 11.30 with ice in summer, hopefully somewhere loud with girls. That is what is meant for. Blends aren't meant to be this sacrosant pure expression of work and trial and history, they aren't meant to be something for sharing and pouring and not thinking too much about. Experimentation on a wide scale with anything scottish whisky is not really happening at the moment and small batch blends are the future of mass market whisky consumption i tell you.
This is a condensed version of my opinion i relate about blends at tastings.
TLDR : Don't be a snob, this sounds interesting. It's something new. It's not a 1967 Ardbeg and nor is it trying to be.