Zoom Livestream link: (begins at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern)
QUICK SUMMARY: (for those with short attention spans)
- $25/ticket, unlimited entries
- Grand Prize: Winner’s choice of 4 unicorn bottles ($1,250-$1,750 value each)
- 15 First Prizes: JJ Buckley gift cards ($500 & $250)
- Proceeds after 225 tickets → Love146 charity
- Deadline: NOON PT, Jan 30, 2026
- Drawing livestreamed on BerserkerDay, Friday Jan 30 @4pm Pacific
Based on the huge success and popularity of all the prior years’ ‘unicorn’ raffles, I’m excited to run it again, with a multiple ‘unicorn’ options, 15 First Prizes totalling $5,000, additional prizes forthcoming, and a way for everybody to win…read on…
A raffle with a livestream broadcast, over $10,000 in prizes!
GRAND PRIZE(S): This year, rather than one chosen bottle, adding another when a stretch goal is achieved, we’re repeating last year’s version where the winner chooses!
✓ 100 tickets sold (Challenge Met 1/19/26) = 1st Winner (1st choice from list)
✓ 175 tickets sold (Challenge Met 1/20/26) = 2nd Winner (2nd choice from list)
✓ 225 tickets sold (Challenge Met 1/20/26) = 3rd Winner (3rd choice from list)
With the assistance of @Charlie_Carnes, @Jorge_Henriquez @K_John_Joseph and @Robert.A.Jr (my ‘unicorn committee’) I’ve come up with this list of ‘unicorn’ bottles from which to choose: (in order of value, winner(s) can choose any, in order of draw)
- 2006 Gonon Saint Joseph VV (value $1,695)
- 2022 Leflaive Batard Montrachet (value $1,750)
- 2020 Roumier Bonnes Mares (value $1,695) (claimed by Scott Mackenzie)
- 2013 Cristal Rosé (Magnum) (value $1,250)
While MOST of us may not be able to afford these bottles, and some of us (like me) would be afraid to drink such bottles, who among us wouldn’t LOVE the opportunity to WIN one for $25!!?? Photos/media of the wines below. Express shipping directly from JJ Buckley and insurance are paid by Wine Berserkers as part of the raffle, and if you live in a state where the shipping restrictions prevent you from receiving it, we’ll figure it out, no worries.
FIRST PRIZES: 15 JJ Buckley Gift Cards - $5,000 Total Value!
- Five (5) $500 gift cards
- Ten (10) $250 gift cards
(Available to both new AND existing JJ Buckley customers)
ADDITIONAL PRIZES:
As part of our ongoing partnership discussions with Decanter magazine, we’re excited to offer:
FIVE Annual Subscriptions (one to each of 5 winners) to Decanter Premium (£99 value each)
If you’re a winner, we’d love your feedback to help shape this partnership for the community.
STRETCH GOALS FOR CHARITY AND FUNDRAISING: Once I get to 225 tickets sold, the proceeds will be donated to charity. The charity will be to my wife’s favorite charity - Love146 (www.love146.org) - working to end child trafficking. This way, even if you don’t win one of the amazing prizes in the raffle, you DO win by contributing to a most worthy cause, so no raffle ticket goes to waste and everybody wins a ‘consolation prize’.
SPECIAL (NEW) PRIZE FOR LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR This year, influenced and inspired by @R_Frankel 's generosity last year, I’ve decided to implement a special prize for the individual who contributes the most/buys the most raffle tickets, an optional prize, allowing said user to customize their ‘title’, as can be seen here, as an example:
I will grant this also to @R_Frankel if he wishes to choose one, given he is, by far, last year’s most generous contributor!
Last year we contributed $10,650 (!!!), primarily through the generosity of @R_Frankel to Love 146.org through this raffle, including a match from me and others!
An overview of what the organization does can be found here:
HOW TO ENTER: Each raffle ticket is $25, and you can enter as many times as you want. Each $25 raffle ticket received by me is one spot in the raffle. Send your raffle ticket payments (any quantity, do NOT have to be separate transactions, i.e. if I receive $50 I know to enter you twice, and you will be assigned two raffle ticket spots/numbers, etc.). I have a sheet of entrants, showing names in alphabetical order, of those who have purchased tickets, and it is updated live as I enter them manually in the master spreadsheet. Link is HERE so find your name at will - remember it’s a manual process so it might be 24 hours before I enter the tickets in the spreadsheet.
(Links removed, contest ended)
ENTRY DEADLINE: All raffle ticket purchases MUST be completed by NOON Pacific on Jan 30, 2026. Any purchases thereafter will be refunded/returned.
BONUS: If invited by the Grand Prize Winner(s), I will happily fly out to join you and your circle of wine friends for the event, should you allow me to taste this unicorn juice, particularly the Gonon!
You do not have to be present on the livestream (which will be streaming on Zoom, so I can be on screen live plus show you the raffle random drawing, to assure honesty and legitimacy!) to win, I will contact you if you are not, but let’s all drink some BerserkerDay wines and make this a party! I will post the complete list of winners as I have done in the past. The livestream will feature a chat function, and I’ll do my best to man it for those who need it, but for the rest of the Berserkers on the livestream, chat about what BerserkerDay wines you are drinking.
PICS!! (note the photo of the Cristal mag is just a 750ml, as the mag is packaged in such a way that it would be best to keep it in its packaging for the eventual winner, if chosen)
