On average, how many distilleries is the malt used in Vatted whiskey made from?

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On average, how many distilleries is the malt used in Vatted whiskey made from?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I believe it varies quite a bit and not every company is going to reveal what goes into it's bottles..

Here are a few that I am aware of:

Compass Box Peat Monster uses 3 but other Compass Box vattings use quite a few more. .

There are 2 or 3 vattings that use scotch from each of the Islay distilleries (6).

Johnnie Walker Green uses dozens (their number)

Chivas had a "Century of Malts" vatting that used 100 malts, although it's now out of production.

Serendipity used 2

Poit Dubh uses as many as 8, but is mostly Talisker