How to skip the 10 year wait list & get a bottle now:
Winner announced on July 29, 2017. (Sign me up 🙋)
Pappy Van Winkle is known the rarest whiskey in the world, sought after by many connoisseurs for as much as $5,000 a bottle (if you can find it):
Why so high a price? Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery only releases between 7,000-8,000 cases, a dramatically lower number than other bourbon distilleries, which can produce around 7 million cases a year. Supply also contributes to the soaring prices, since the company must wait over two decades to sell the bourbon along with losing about 50 gallons for every 3 gallons made.
The hunt for the product is so cutthroat that there was even a Pappy heist in 2013:
With 65 cases of the bourbon stolen from the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Only 20 have been recovered – all since destroyed from fear of them having been tampered with. This bourbon is sought after by many, but find by few, so few that the some-odd number of bars who have acquired it can sell single pours for around $80. (We’ve even seen it on eBay for $300… and the bottle was empty)
How to win the bourbon everyone wants but no one can get:
For a chance to purchase the Pappy Van Winkle 12 Year Bourbon for only $100, enter here.
*Contest closes on July 28, 2017. Winner will be randomly selected and announced on July 29, 2017.
