Bidding advice
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Placing a Maximum Bid
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Placing a Single Bid
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Incremental Bidding Explained
Our system increases bids based on preset increments, as shown in the table below, whether you set a maximum bid or make a single bid.
Bottle Details
Brora 1981 Duncan Taylor 27 Year Old
A single cask bottling of Brora released by Duncan Taylor in their Rare Auld cask strength series.
Distilled in November 1981 and bottled 27 years later in July 2009, from single cask #291.
This is bottle number 327 of 330.
Brora
A storied distillery in the Sutherland area of Scotland. Despite having closed in 1983, it developed cult status for the high quality single malt it had produced, particularly a peated style between 1969 and 1973. Such was its popularity, it was eventually rebuilt by Diageo and opened again in 2021.
Rare Auld
Rare Auld is a brand of independently bottled single cask Scotch whiskies from Duncan Taylor. It was introduced in 2004 and has included both single malt and single grain whiskies over the years, focussing exclusively on the latter since 2019.
Duncan Taylor
Established in 1936, Duncan Taylor is a historic Scotch whisky company. A cask broker and independent bottler, its brands include the Dimensions, The Octave and Rare Auld single casks, and the blended Scotch labels such as Black Bull and The Big Smoke.
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