Sazerac House Ultimate Cocktail Class
Sweepstakes
Official
Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A PURCHASE DOES
NOT IMPROVE CHANCES OF WINNING. THE
FOLLOWING SWEEPSTAKES IS VALID ONLY IN THE U.S. STATES OF LOUISANA (“LA”) AND
MISSISSIPPI (“MS”) WHO RESIDE WITHIN SIXTY (60) MILES OF SAZERAC HOUSE NEW
ORLEANS, AND IS OPEN ONLY TO QUALIFIED PERSONS (AS DEFINED IN THE RULES
BELOW). VOID ELSEWHERE AND WHEREVER
PROHIBITED. BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES,
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE DECISIONS OF SPONSOR AND
ADMINISTRATOR. DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE
SWEEPSTAKES IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND FALL WITHIN THE
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AS SET FORTH BELOW.
Sweepstakes
Name: Sazerac House Ultimate Cocktail Class Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”).
Sweepstakes Dates: Registration begins at 8:00:01am Central
Time (“CT”) on 2/2/2026 and ends at
11:59:59am CT on 2/16/2026 (the
“Registration Period”). The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable
federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Void outside of the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi, and
wherever restricted or prohibited by law.
Who may Enter: Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents
of LA and MS who reside within sixty (60) miles of Sazerac House New Orleans,
LA (located at 101 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA, 70130), who are age 21 or
older as of date of entry, have a valid driver’s license or government issued
photo ID, except the following persons who are not eligible to enter,
participate or win:
(a)
Employees,
officers, and directors of Sazerac
Company, Inc. (“Sponsor”), Million Dollar Media (the “Sweepstakes
Administrator”), each of their respective franchisees, parents, affiliated
companies, subsidiaries, contractors, distributors or wholesalers, printers,
advertising and promotion agencies, and any and all other companies associated
with the design or execution of this promotion, or any employees, officers,
directors, members, shareholders or agents of any alcohol-beverage retailers,
distributors, wholesalers or manufacturers (collectively, “Released Parties”),
and the members of the immediate families or households, whether or not
related, of any of the above. “Immediate family members” includes, for purposes
of this promotion, parents (including in-laws), grandparents, siblings
(including step-siblings), children (including step-children), grandchildren
(including step grandchildren) and each of their respective spouses, regardless
of where they reside.
How to Enter –
Online Registration: To enter, scan the QR Code on
the applicable point of sale material using your mobile device’s camera or
directly visit www.SHNOUltimateCocktailClass.com during the “Registration
Period.” Each entrant must fully
complete the online registration page with all required information including
his/her name, valid email address, phone number (including area code), home address, and date of birth. After having read and agreed to these
Official Rules, click the submit button to submit your online entry. All online entries must be fully complete for all required
information and must be received by 11:59:59am CT on 2/16/2026 to be eligible.
Any available
opt-in opportunities are not required to enter the
Sweepstakes, and opting-in will not improve your chances of winning. By participating and submitting an entry, entrant agrees that sponsor
and participating parties are authorized to contact entrant via email, text,
mail, phone or any other form of media to make entrant aware of information
pertinent to the Sweepstakes, and to distribute information regarding the
Sponsor(s) featured products, special events or future contests, promotions or
offers. Entrants may opt-out of any
further email communication at any time by simply replying REMOVE to any email
message, or following the provided opt-out instructions.
Maximum of one entry per
person.
Any
incomplete or illegible entries will be disqualified. Any entry submitted
with an invalid email address or other inaccurate, incomplete, false or
incorrect information will be disqualified.
Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected,
illegible, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, damaged entries, or for entries
submitted in a manner that is not expressly allowed under these rules, or for any entry not submitted or received due to any
technical error or failure, unauthorized human intervention, inaccurate capture
or mis-entry of any required information, or the failure to capture any such
information for any reason including programming or technical errors, or
effects of hackers or failure of any electronic equipment, computer or cellular
transmissions and/or network connections; all of which will be disqualified.
Each
entrant must submit an entry on his/her own behalf. Any entry submitted on behalf of another
individual or using another person’s email address, name or mobile number will
be disqualified and ineligible to claim any prize. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more
than the stated number of entries allowed by using same, multiple/different
email addresses, mobile numbers, identities, or any other methods void that
entrant's entries and that entrant may be disqualified. No mechanically reproduced or automated
entries permitted. Use of any automated
system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification and all
such entries will be deemed void. All
entries received become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned.
In
the event of a dispute as to any online registration, the authorized account
holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the
registrant and he/she must be eligible according to these Official Rules. The “authorized email account holder” is the
natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online
service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email
addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address.
By
registering to enter Sweepstakes, you affirm that you have read and accepted
these Official Sweepstakes Rules. All entrants agree to be bound by and abide
by the official rules of the Sweepstakes.
Winner Selection and
Notification (maximum 1 grand prize winner): A prize drawing will be held on or about 2/17/2026 to
select a maximum of one (1) potential grand prize winner from among all
eligible entries received. If eligible
entries are less than the scheduled number of prizes available, then associated
prize award(s) shall not be awarded.
The
potential prize winner will be notified initially via phone and/or email
following their selection and determination as a potential winner. If the Administrator is unsuccessful in its
attempt to reach and speak directly with a selected potential prize winner by
phone within 48-hours of the initial notification attempt to the phone
number and/or email address associated with that entrant’s entry, then that entrant
may be disqualified and an alternate potential winner may be randomly selected
from among the remaining eligible entries and notified as per the procedures
outlined above (time permitting).
During
winner notification, the selected potential winner must confirm their
eligibility and indicate their willingness and ability to accept the prize and
complete the designated Cocktail Class prize award no later than April 3 ,2026
on a date solely determined and designated by Sponsor.
The potential winner will then receive official notification via email
delivery, including prize acceptance documents which must be completed and
returned per the provided instructions and as outlined below. If the selected winner does not meet the
eligibility requirements, or is unable or unwilling to accept the prize, elects
to decline the prize or fails to return the required prize acceptance documents
within the required time frame, s/he will be disqualified and, at Sponsor’s
discretion and time permitting, an alternate winner will be randomly selected
from among all remaining eligible entries and notified as per the procedures
outlined above. Any disqualified entrant
will not receive any alternate prize substitution or compensation. Decisions
of the Administrator in the selection and determination of the winner and all
matters relating to this Sweepstakes are final and binding.
All
of the following will apply to the potential winner: 1) winner will be required
to complete and return, within 3-days
of date of receipt, a prize acceptance form, including an affidavit of
eligibility and a liability/publicity release (where permitted) and a W-9 form
in order to be eligible to claim the prize (if prize value exceeds $2,000); 2)
winner may be required to present a copy of a valid driver’s license or
government issued photo ID with valid residential address and a copy of a valid
social security card as a condition of receiving the prize, and (3) winner
shall be solely responsible for paying all applicable taxes (including, but not
limited to, all local, state and federal taxes) that may be or become due in
connection with their respective prize award, and winner shall be issued a 1099
form reflecting the value of the prize award.
Grand Prize Award
(maximum 1 prize award): The eligible entrant designated as the grand
prize winner shall be awarded an Ultimate Cocktail Class experience for the
winner and up to five (5) guests (all age 21 or older) to be held at the
Sazerac House in New Orleans, LA (prize award must be completed on a date as
solely determined and designated by Sponsor no later than April 3, 2026 unless
otherwise designated by Sponsor, subject to availability), and shall
include:
· A cocktail class experience
(“Class”) led by an expert bartender or other Sponsor designated associate to
instruct the winner and up to five (5) guests (all age 21 or older);
· One (1) $400 Sponsor
designated gift card toward the purchase of the Sazerac House of Cocktails
bottle collection or other merchandise available at the Sazerac House gift
shop; and,
·
One
(1) cocktail set to include: four (4) rocks glasses; four (4) coupe glasses;
and one (1) cocktail shaker set.
Class
experience date is at the sole determination and designation of Sponsor and
subject to availability. Gift card
awarded is subject to the terms and conditions, including any expiration, of
the issuing gift card provider policy. The
grand prize award has an approximate retail value (“ARV”) of $460. If winner chooses to have fewer than the
allotted number of guests attend the Cocktail Class experience, no further
compensation will be awarded. No travel
or travel reimbursement is provided as part of the prize award.
Grand prize winner and all confirmed guests must
be at least 21 years of age and will be required to execute and return a
liability/publicity release prior to prize award fulfillment. Winner and guest(s) shall be subject to any
qualifying conditions prior to and during Class attendance, or requirements
including any regulation or policy related to COVID-19 testing requirements or
vaccination status. Any testing
requirements, vaccination and/or any related quarantine requirements and
expenses are the sole responsibility of, and at the sole expense of winner and
guest. Winner and guest(s) are subject
to vaccination requirement and policy, and if unable or unwilling to comply
with requirements, then all related prize award elements for which they fail to
meet shall be forfeit.
Sponsor will not be responsible for Class delay,
rescheduling, postponement or cancellation for any reason including but not
limited to weather, pandemic, an Act of God, Force Majeure, government
regulation or restriction, an act of terrorism, civil disturbance, work
stoppage, or any other reason. No substitute prize award or compensation
shall be provided by Sponsor in the event of any event or Class delay,
rescheduling, postponement, or cancellation for any reason, and winner shall be
subject to the terms and conditions of the Class and tour/experience policy and
shall solely look to the Class and/or tour/experience organizer as applicable.
Winner and guest(s) agree to comply with all
applicable Class provider attendance rules requirements, and regulations in
connection with the prize award, redemption and use. Sponsor and Class providers
reserve the right to remove or deny entry to any winner and/or his/her guest
who do not comply with any rule, requirement, instruction, policy, or who
engage in a disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or
harass any other person. Winner and
guest(s) shall be solely responsible for their behavior while in attendance at
any Class experience tour or event, and must follow the instructions and
direction from any Class provider or associated staff or security. If
winner or guest(s) violates the standards of the Class provider, behaves in an
inappropriate, irresponsible or offensive manner, or is deemed by staff or
security to have violated any rule, regulation or policy of the Class provider,
or to be a security threat in any manner, the winner and guest(s) shall be
ejected or denied entry, and shall immediately forfeit the remaining prize
award.
All
merchandise prize items (gift card and cocktail set) are awarded ‘as is’
without warranty, express or implied.
Prize winners must accept delivery of prize in the method as solely
determined and designated by Sponsor.
Prize shall be shipped only to the designated winner residential address
or emailed to the designated email address as submitted during initial online
registration and/or as provided during winner notification, via the carrier as
determined and designated by Sponsor (i.e. UPS, USPS or other Sponsor
designated carrier), or as otherwise specified by Sponsor. Allow 8 – 12 weeks for prize delivery.
Once
shipped and/or emailed, prize shall be considered as awarded and delivered, and
Sponsor shall not be responsible for actual receipt of delivery by winner. Sponsor shall not be responsible for any
lost, late, undelivered, misdirected, damaged or stolen delivery; or any
incorrect delivery address provided by winner during registration or prize
claim. In the event of any delivery
issues, including undelivered, misdirected, lost or stolen deliveries, Sponsor
shall have no responsibility to replace the prize award, and prize award shall
not be substituted by Sponsor with any alternate prize award or
compensation. Winner shall look solely
to designated shipper/carrier for any lost, damaged, stolen or mis-delivered packages
and not to Sponsor for any delivery issues.
General
Prize Conditions: No
alcoholic beverage is part of any prize award.
All other costs
and expenses related to prize acceptance, delivery, redemption or use not
specified herein as being provided are the sole responsibility of winner. All income, federal, state and local taxes are
the winner’s sole responsibility. All
prize awards are non-transferable and no cash redemption or prize substitution
allowed, except at Sponsor’s sole discretion or as provided herein. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a
prize with one of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. All prizes are awarded as is, without
any warranty, express or implied, by Sponsor.
Failure to collect or properly claim prize in accordance with these
rules will result in forfeiture of the prize.
If forfeited for any reason, entrant will not receive any other prize
substitution or compensation, and the
prize will remain the property of Sponsor and will not be awarded, except as
provided herein. All properly claimed prizes will be awarded. Any unclaimed prizes will not be
awarded. TOTAL ARV OF ALL AVAILABLE
PRIZE AWARDS: $460.
Additional Rules &
Restrictions: By participating, entrants agree to
abide by and be bound by the Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor
and Administrator, which shall be final in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. In the event an entrant wins a prize, and is
later found to be in violation of these rules he/she will be required to
forfeit the prize or to reimburse Sponsor for the stated value of the prize if
such violation is discovered after winner has used the prize. Participation in Sweepstakes
constitutes permission for the Sponsor and its designees to use entrants’
names, cities and states of residence and/or likenesses for purposes of
advertising and trade in any and all media now or hereafter known worldwide on
perpetuity without limitation or further compensation, notification or
permission, unless prohibited by law.
False, fraudulent or deceptive entries or acts shall render entrants
ineligible for any prize.
By
participating, entrants agree to hold all Released Parties harmless from any
claims, losses, actions, or damages of any kind, whether actual, incidental or
consequential, for injury (including but not limited to death), damages, losses
or expenses arising out of or relating to entrant’s participation in this
Sweepstakes, or the acceptance, possession or use/misuse of any prize, or
participation in prize-related activities (including but not limited to travel
or activity related thereto), and to assume all liability therefor.
Released
Parties shall not be liable to winner or any other person for failure to supply
the prize or any part thereof by reason of any acts of God, pandemics, any
actions, regulations, orders, or requests by any governmental entity, equipment
failure, terrorist acts, war, fire, unusually severe weather, embargo, labor
dispute or strike, labor or material shortage, transportation interruption of
any kind, or any other cause beyond Released Parties’ sole control.
Entrants
are restricted to use of ordinary and typical computer equipment, mobile phone
equipment, Internet access and cellular networks. Sponsor disclaims all
liability for the inability of a entrant to complete or continue an entry due
to equipment malfunction, busy lines, inadvertent disconnections, acts beyond
the Sponsor’s control, or otherwise. The Sponsor disclaims any liability for
entries not received due to technical difficulties or transmission errors. The
Sponsor disclaims all liability for any delays, mis-delivery, loss, or failure
in the delivery of any item sent by mail, courier, express, electronic
transmission, or other delivery method.
Released Parties are not responsible for mechanical, technical, electronic,
communications, telephone, computer, hardware or software errors, malfunctions
or failures of any kind, including: failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed
transmission of online entries, traffic congestion on telephone lines, the
Internet or at any website or lost or unavailable network connections which may
limit an online entrant's ability to participate in the Sweepstakes, and any
injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer or mobile phone
related to or resulting from participating in or downloading any information
necessary to participate in the Sweepstakes.
Released Parties are not responsible for any other errors of any kind,
whether computer, technical, typographical, printing, human or otherwise,
relating to or in connection with the Sweepstakes, including, without
limitations, errors which may occur in connection with the printing or
advertising of this Sweepstakes, administration or execution of the Sweepstakes,
the cancellation of the Sweepstakes, the processing of entries or in the
announcement of the prizes or prize winners.
Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any
person tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes website.
Sponsor
reserves the right to cancel, modify, reschedule or terminate the Sweepstakes
for any reason including, but not limited to acts of God, pandemics, force
majeure, government regulatory action or ruling, fraud, misconduct, or if any technical
failures destroy or threaten the integrity of the Sweepstakes, in the opinion
of the Sponsor/Administrator, or if a computer virus, bug, or other technical
problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes
as determined by Sponsor/Administrator, in their sole discretion. In the event
of early termination of the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right to
determine a prize winner in a random drawing from among all eligible,
non-suspect entries received as of the time/date of such termination.
IN CASE OF DISPUTES: By
participating, each entrant agrees that (1) any and all disputes, claims, and
causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Sweepstakes, or any
prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of
class action, and any judicial proceeding shall take place in a federal or
state court within the State of New Jersey; (2) any and all claims, judgments,
and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including
costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, and in no event will entrant
be entitled to received attorneys' fees or other legal costs; and (3) under no
circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant
hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, and consequential
damages, and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses,
and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All
issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and
enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of
entrant and Sponsor in connection with this Sweepstakes, shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, without
giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions
(whether of the State of New Jersey or any other jurisdiction), that would cause
the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New
Jersey.
Odds: Odds
of being selected as the prize winner are dependent upon the total number of
eligible entries received.
Official Rules &
Winners List: For a copy of these Official Rules, or the
name of prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to be received by
3/31/2026 to: Sazerac House Ultimate Cocktail Class Sweepstakes, c/o Million
Dollar Media, P.O. Box 278, Woodbridge, NJ 07095. PLEASE SPECIFY which you are requesting,
official rules or winners list.
Sponsor:
This Sweepstakes is sponsored by Sazerac Company, Inc., Sazerac Inc,
10401 Linn Station Rd, Louisville, KY, 40223.
Sweepstakes Administrator:
The Sweepstakes is administered by Million Dollar Media, P.O. Box 278,
Woodbridge, NJ 07095.