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
Ailsa Bay Single Malt Inaugural Release
Built in 2007 on the same site as the former Ladyburn distillery, Ailsa Bay is located within William Grant & Sons' Girvan grain complex. The company was prompted to revive single malt distilling there due to an increasing 21st century demand not only for its Grant's blends, but for its flagship single malt brands, Glenfiddich and Balvenie. It was pressure on the latter that was the ket catalyst, and the stills at Ailsa Bay are replicas of those at Balvenie. The distillery is a versatile facility however, and in addition to producing Balvenie-like spirit, it also distils spirits with estery, nutty, fruity and heavily peated flavour profiles. The distillery's first official single malt release was a heavily peated whisky, launched in February 2016.
This was the distillery's inaugural release, distilled from barley peated to 21ppm.
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