Three Ships is a brand of

whisky Whisky or whiskey is a type of liquor made from Fermentation in food processing, fermented grain mashing, mash. Various grains (which may be Malting, malted) are used for different varieties, including barley, Maize, corn, rye, and wheat. Whisky ...

distilled at the James Sedgwick distillery in

Wellington, Western Cape Wellington is a town in the Western Cape Winelands, a 45-minute drive from Cape Town, in South Africa with a population of approximately 62,000. Wellington's economy is centered on products of agriculture such as deciduous fruit, table grapes, wi ...

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Drakenstein Local Municipality Drakenstein Municipality (; ) is a local municipality located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. , it had a population of 251,262. Its municipality code is WC023. Geography The municipa ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. The distillery produces both

malt Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting". Malted grain is used to make beer, whisky, malted milk, malt vinegar, ...

and

grain A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached husk, hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and ...

whiskies on the same site, which is unusual for whisky distilleries. The Three Ships range includes blended and single malt whiskies. Three Ships is owned by

Distell Distell Group Limited, commonly referred to as Distell, was a multinational brewing and beverage company, based in South Africa. On April 26, 2023, Distell was acquired by Heineken. After that, its operations were integrated into Heineken Beve ...

, a multinational brewing and beverage company based in South Africa. Andy Watts is currently the Master Distiller, only the 6th since the distillery was established in 1886.

Varieties

* Three Ships Select * Three Ships 5 Year Old Premium Select * Three Ships 10 Year Old Single Malt * Three Ships Bourbon Cask Finish * Three Ships Oloroso

Recognition

In 2012, the World Whiskies Awards selected Three Ships 5 Year Old Premium Select as World's Best Blended Whisky. In 2015, Three Ships 10 Year Old Single Malt won Best African Single Malt. In 2023, Three Ships 12-Year-Old Double Wood was selected as the World’s Best Limited Edition Blended Whisky, and in 2025, the Three Ships Whisky Bourbon Cask was crowned the World's Best Blended Whisky.

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References

{{reflist South African brands South African whisky Economy of the Western Cape Drakenstein