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
Ballechin 2005 Whisky Sponge 14 Year Old Edition No.5
Ballechin is the heavily peated single malt produced at Edradour. When Signatory Vintage took over the distillery in 2002, they installed former Laphroaig distillery manager, Iain Henderson, as Director of Operations, and inspired by his previous place of work, the first peated distillation at Edradour took place in 2003. Generally matured in a range of different wine casks, the first bottlings were turned out in 2006.
Distilled in 2005 and bottled in 2020, this is a collaboration between independent bottler, Copper Monument (now known as Decadent Drinks), and the Whisky Sponge blog. This was the partnership's fifth bottling, matured in a refill sherry hogshead.
One of 302 bottles.
Edradour
A small (once Scotland's smallest) distillery in Perthshire that began production in 1837. It is today owned by the independent bottler-turned-distiller, Signatory Vintage, who have placed a renewed focus on its single malt brands, introducing the heavily peated Ballechin in 2006.
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