A Chicago-based financier-turned-distiller, producer of Jeppson’s Malört, bought an estate in the Village of Golf for $7.2 million.
Records show Tremaine and Jennifer Atkinson bought the house at 9 Country Road West from Anthony and Wendy Tamaccio. The Atkinsons financed the purchase with a $5 million mortgage from CIBC Bank.
Mary Windle of Douglas Elliman had the listing, and Caron Dockerty of Douglas Elliman brought the buyer.
Anthony Tamaccio is a Boca Raton-based homebuilder, and both he and Wendy Tamaccio are managers of Tamaccio Enterprises LLC.
Tremain Atkinson is the co-founder of Chicago-based CH Distillery, a liquor distiller. Prior to CH Distillery, Atkinson was partner and COO of LSV Asset Management, a Chicago-based wealth management firm with $92 billion in assets under management, according to its website.
In 2018, CH Distillery bought longtime Chicago liquor brand, the Carl Jeppson Company, and became the producer of Jeppson’s Malört, a wormwood-based liqueur that is exclusively sold in Chicago and widely considered a culturally significant libation in the city’s drinking community.
Comedian and actor John Hodgman said on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast that Malört “tastes like pencil shavings and heartbreak.”
After buying Carl Jeppson, Atkinson moved its production of Malört from Auburndale, Florida back to Chicago.
Records show the Tamaccios bought the 1.5-acre property in Golf for $900,000 in 2019, and completed construction of the new home in 2021. The 4,700-square-foot house has five bedrooms and six bathrooms. The property also includes a pool, spa, and outdoor kitchen.
The home is in a gated community that surrounds the golf course at the Country Club of Florida. Golf is a small inland village in Palm Beach County, and a hot spot of golf courses and gated communities.
Homes in golf course communities across the county have attracted luxury buyers in recent months. A cybersecurity executive bought an Old Palm Golf Club home in Palm Beach Gardens for $9.2 million in October. A health care CEO also bought a home there in September for $8.8 million. The chairman of a Chicago-based utility giant sold his renovated home in the Bear’s Club in Jupiter for $15 million in August.