A Cincinnati nonprofit is raffling off a collection of rare bourbon worth more than $10,000 to help in its mission to improve the health of older adults.
An anonymous donor gave the Giving Voice Foundation an extremely rare five-bottle collection of Buffalo Trace Antique bourbon, which includes the highly coveted 2023 Eagle Rare 17. The foundation is now selling tickets to this inaugural raffle, and the winner will be drawn on June 14, or National Bourbon Day.
“We continue to look for new ways to support funding for our programming that enables us to keep offering them to Cincinnati’s aging community at no charge,” Giving Voice Foundation founder and board president Dr. Christian Gausvik, said in a press release. “As we diversify our fundraising efforts beyond hosting annual events, we felt this unique and rare raffle would be a great way to engage and encourage our bourbon-loving Tri-State to get involved in our important cause!”
Every fall, Frankfort, Kentucky, distillery Buffalo Trace releases a limited collection of American whiskeys called the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection (BTAC). The 2023 collection contained three bourbon whiskeys — George T. Stagg Bourbon, William Larue Weller Bourbon and Eagle Rare 17-Year-Old Bourbon — and two rye whiskeys: Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye Whiskey and Sazerac Rye 18-Year-Old Whiskey. The Eagle Rare 17 was bottled at 19 years and three months, making it the oldest in the collection’s 23-year history, according to Forbes.
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In Ohio, fewer than 100 sets of this collection were released to retailers.
“True bourbon lovers should strongly consider this as possibly their only and very real chance to win this highly desirable five-bottle collection, which has an estimated value of more than $10,000,” the foundation said in the release.
Proceeds from the raffle will directly benefit the Giving Voice Foundation. The organization’s goal is to raise $20,000 to continue supporting its free community programs for older adults with Alzheimer’s and dementia and their caregivers.
Anyone 21 or older may purchase tickets, which are one for $25 or five for $100. You can buy tickets at cincybourbonraffle.com. The winner will be drawn at 7 p.m. on June 14 and then contacted by phone. The bourbon collection must be picked up in person in Cincinnati.
Learn more about the Giving Voice Foundation here.
This article appears in May 1-14, 2024.
