Following last week's update on the 2022 Autumn Bottle Lottery results, the Ohio Department of Liquor (OHLQ) has posted the results of the 2022 Winter Bottle Lottery Winners. This was the big Pappy and Buffalo Trace Lotter. Again, I did not win... I know that's shocking for everyone... but here we are.
Winter Lottery - There were 1313 bottles available and a whopping 142,061 entries. This resulted in an overall chance of winning of 0.92% (or around 1 in 108).
The breakdown of available bottles was:
- Old Rip Van Winkle 10 - 235
- Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 Year - 183
- Pappy Van Winkle 15 - 87
- Pappy Van Winkle 20 - 8
- Pappy Van Winkle 23 - 5
- Eagle Rare 17 - 109
- Sazerac Rye 18 - 34
- Thomas H. Handy - 318
- William Larue Weller - 174
- George T. Stagg - 160
This year saw over 30,000 more entries than last year and almost double the amount since I've started this site in 2018.
2022 Entries - 142,061
2021 Entries - 111,845
2020 Entries - 98,923
2019 Entries - 65,389
2018 Entries - 73,443
Some of my favorite winners were:
- Carmele H. 1758523
- Anthony K. 1723709
- Christen Y. 1700742
- Kiersten N. 1833143
- Kristen S. 1762796
- Kristin G. 1817950
- Dodstil D. 1731684
- Jerry S. 1817407
- Elaine P. 1716473
- George K. 1733312
- Ellizabeth H. 1743991
- Mark R. 1735424 (not me 😞)
- Markee O. 1793604
- Pitt S. 1775878
- Season E. 1831769