Jack's No. 1 - Single Malt Whiskey - Live Auction

Single Malt Whiskey

“Beautifully balanced, great nose; exciting on the palate; flavours lasting longer”.
We have since produced 205 bottles of whisky which we will auction to raise money for brain cancer.

The Story:

After Jack was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), one of the most aggressive and deadly brain cancers and he was given just 12 months to live, it became clear that the surgery, radiation, and toxic chemicals he was forced to endure (to shrink the tumour, redress pain/swelling, assist with sleep, etc.) had scrambled his brain and finishing his finance/law degrees was no longer an option, I looked for something that might give him a career path if he survived.

I have been involved in the Tasmanian whisky industry since 2012 and several friends and I decided to establish a whisky company and I asked Jack to become a shareholder, which he gladly agreed. I figured, naively as it turned out, if I could save his life and he was not too physically and mentally compromised by the antediluvian treatments he was forced to endure, we could give him a job in the company (“Elmside”). But Jack died and I sold our shares, although the new owner agreed that the first barrel (distilled in May 2017 [Barrel #1], 100 litres) will be donated to raising money for brain cancer in Jack’s name. That whisky, after six years now, has matured into a delicious whisky,

The whisky was tasted and endorsed by the three founders of the Australian whisky industry: Bill Lark (the Godfather of Australian whisky), Casey Overeem (an icon in the whisky industry [Overeem Whisky]) and Patrick Maguire (one of the Founders of Sullivan’s Cove whisky which won the award for the best whisky in the world several years ago).