Andrew Watts

Andrew Watts (born 4 October 1960) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1982 and 1983 and for Boland in South Africa from 1985 to 1987.

Watts was born at Chapeltown, Yorkshire and grew up in Penistone Under Watts, the distillery produces the Three Ships line of whiskies, including blended and single malt whiskies, and Bain's Cape Mountain Whisky, South Africa's only single grain whisky.

Recognition In 2012, the World Whiskies Awards selected Three Ships 5 Year Old Premium Select as World's Best Blended Whisky.

In 2014 Watts was named "Wellingtoner of the Year" and "Wellington Businessman of the Year". Awards for services to the town and its community and the only time to date that both awards were given to the same person in the same year!

Bain's was named the World's Best Grain Whisky at the annual Whisky Magazine’s World Whisky Awards (WWA) held in London in 2013 and 2018.

At the World Whisky Awards (WWA) in 2018 he was named the Global Icon Master Distiller/ Master Blender of the Year and at the same WWA awards in 2020 he was named the Global Icon World Whisky Ambassador of the Year.