We are now in the fourth week of gathering bottles of whiskey and other collectible spirits for the raffle. We’re on a great pace to make our goal of 30 bottles for 10 to 15 prizes. We still have a little bit to go. We still need some whiskey!

We’ll take any whiskey—check with your most pretentious friends who talk solemnly about whiskey as if it’s a matter of grave import! (By the way, they’re right.)

But if you don’t keep company with said pretentious friends, let me remind you… We have a bottle registry at Dunwoody Beverage! The full list is included below. We don’t need all of these… but this is a hand-picked collection of spirits that we feel would appeal to the whiskey snob enthusiast. Best of all, Dunwoody Beverage returns 10% of each sale to our Rotary club as a donation.

We’ll have a full update of our progress in donations and plan for sales at the first meeting of October. That’s when we’ll close the prize pool and begin phase 2 of marketing the our raffle tickets to the general public.

This is how our major fundraiser for the fall is shaping up:

• Phase 1: prize collection (to be completed by October 1). we now have 20 of our anticipated 30 - 40 bottles promised… let’s go!
• Phase 2: sell tickets (goal is to sell all 1,000 tickets by November 15): we’ll be priced at $25/ticket or 5 tickets for $100. Sales are open now but we will begin marketing in earnest in October.
• Spread the word! Encourage friends, family, and colleagues—whiskey enthusiasts are never hard to find (they brag). Every ticket sold brings us closer to our $25,000 goal. And whiskey might just be a great way to introduce people to Rotary.
• And Lastly, SAVE THE DATE! Thirsty Thursday, November 20! We’re targeting that last Thursday before Thanksgiving for the main event itself.