First – please tweet and re-tweet this. It’s extremely important!

As many of you know, my beloved New York City & the surrounding areas were recently hit very badly with Hurricane Sandy. Personally, we were without power, heat & cell towers for 5 days. Business came to a screeching halt and I’ve been trying to re-coup ever since. My 101yr old grandmother’s beach cottage on the NJ Shore was completely destroyed. What’s left of the roof is being held up almost entirely by one single 2×4. The bed pushed through the structure and is sitting partially on the street, the couch is in whatever is left in her tiny kitchen. The home will have to be leveled and there were very few mementos that were salvageable. It may sound “fancy” to say that this was our family’s modest vacation home but anyone who owns property knows the kind of investment that is and the kind of sacrifices you do to make that happen. The little money my Grandparents saved during their years working as a school teacher (her) and an insurance sales man (him) they invested in this humble property with the intention of passing it down through the generations. Like my father, I spent my childhood summers there with my sisters and cousins and it’s a place our family retired to every chance we had.

Our home BEFORE the storm:

Our home AFTER Hurricane Sandy

But as sad and as hard as the recovery will be for my family – we didn’t even get hit with the worst of it. There are many people who lost their permanent homes or who couldn’t return to their homes for weeks due to flooding and unsafe conditions. These people were living in the shelters set up in the NYC public schools. The conditions were terrible – it was not like a ‘forced camping vacation’ by any stretch of the imagination. Many more people were stranded for weeks inside their apartments – especially the elderly and disabled – who couldn’t climb the 5, 12, 15 or more flights of stairs to get in or out of their apartments. They were stranded with no running water, no way to flush their toilets, no heat or food.

There are many recovery efforts underway but you all know how this typically goes … it’s hard for the money to get to the people who really need it.

Not this time! The whisky community of NYC has rallied together with the amazing leadership of Robin Robinson, the wonderful brand ambassador of Compass Box to unselfishly put together a benefit: a combination 2hr whisky tasting and auction to raise money for the incredible Tunnel2Towers organization.

Click HERE to download the below invite as a PDF

Here’s the info on the tasting portion of the evening

Here’s the info on the INCREDIBLE list of whiskies available at the auction

Just LOOK at that list!!!!! There are some bottles that will be available for auction that are rarely, if ever, available anywhere else in the world. People have dug down deep into their private collections to donate some truly remarkable whiskies.

We need to continue to rally. This is going down THIS SUNDAY

DECEMBER 2nd

4-6pm @ Astor Wines & Spirits

399 Lafayette St. , (at E 4th), NY, NY 10003

I’ll be there pouring Brenne! It’s only $25 to enter and enjoy what will be an incredible 2 hour tasting & auction event. Come one, come all! Support the rebuilding of the greater New York area!

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS!!! ONLY $25!

Please share this with anyone you may think might be interested in attending. (And seriously, when else can you attend a whisky tasting event in NYC like this one for only $25?!?)

With love and many thanks,

Allison