Address: Simondium Road Suider Paarl Western Cape South Africa
My great grandfather, C.L. Back, fled Lithuania, because of religious persecution in 1902. He got on a ship from Europe and came down to Cape Town. Not being able to speak or read English or Afrikaans, life wasn’t exactly easy to begin with. He toiled on the docks at Cape Town harbour before moving to Paarl to manage a butchery, Read more...
Address: Distillery Road Wellington Western Cape 7655 South Africa
In 1850 James Sedgwick, captain of the clipper Undine and the pioneer after whom our whisky distillery is named, sailed into Table Bay and almost immediately decided to make the area his home. A few years later James Sedgewick, in 1886 he purchased a distillery in the picturesque town of Wellington. Today, the James Sedgwick distillery, is the Home to Read more...
