Bain's Cape Mountain is a South African brand of

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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 ...

). Launched in 2009, Bain's is South Africa's first whisky produced from a single grain, being made from 100% South African-grown yellow maize (corn). Bain's is owned by

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, a multinational brewing and beverage company based in

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, South Africa. Bain's is named after

Andrew Geddes Bain Andrew Geddes Bain (baptised 11 June 1797 – 20 October 1864), was a Cape Colony geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer. Life history The only child of Alexander Bain and Jean Geddes, both of whom died when Bain was still a ...

, who built the

Bainskloof Pass Bainskloof Pass () is a mountain pass on the R301 regional road between Wellington and Ceres in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The 18-kilometer (11-mile) pass, opened in 1854, was constructed by road engineer Andrew Geddes Bain wit ...

that connects the town of Wellington, where the distillery is located, to the interior of the country in 1853.

The distillery

As of April 2022, the James Sedgwick Distillery is the only commercial whisky distillery in Africa. The distillery produces the Bain's Cape Mountain Whisky brand as well as a number of other whiskies under the Three Ships Label. Andy Watts, the current Master Distiller, is only the 6th since the distillery was established in 1886.

Awards

Bain's was named the World’s Best

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at the annual ''Whisky Magazine’s'' World Whisky Awards (WWA) held in London in 2013. Bain's Cape Mountain has also been awarded several gold and silver medals by the

International Wine and Spirit Competition The International Wine & Spirit Competition is an annual wine and spirit competition founded in 1969 by the German/British oenologist Anton Massel. Each year the competition receives entries from over 90 List of wine producing countries, countrie ...

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External links

Official site
South African brands South African whisky Economy of the Western Cape Drakenstein