Ohioans Get Another Chance To Buy A Rare Bottle Of Bourbon

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A flight of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon at SOHO Kitchen & Bar in Cleveland.
Edsel Little

For the second year in a row, Ohioans will soon have the chance to enter a lottery to purchase some rare bottles of bourbon.

Starting on December 10, Ohioans can enter the Ohio Bottle Lottery. The winners don’t get free bottles, but they do get the chance to purchase one of 800 bottles of the Pappy Van Winkle and Buffalo Trace Antique Collection bourbons.

“There are actually, roughly just under 400 of the Pappy Van Winkle collection that we will lottery off and just about 400 for the Buffalo Trace Antique collection,” Lindsey Leberth is with the Ohio Department of Commerce’s Division of Liquor Control said.

Bottles from the Pappy Van Winkle collection are worth between $55-250 each, while the Buffalo Trace Antique bourbons are priced at $100 per bottle.

Interested buyers can enter one lottery for all products by getting a paper ticket through liquor agencies that contract with the state or through the Ohio Department of Commerce’s bottle lottery website. The lottery only lasts for 12 days and winners will be notified in late January.

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