
What a great idea. Well done Bascule! You’ve been quite active these last weeks. It is great to live in CPT and attend these events. We do hope the JHB whisky lovers have some places as innovative as our headquarters! The Bascule team asked us to inform those interested of what will be happening in [...]
Mar 30 2012 | Posted in
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Our friend Bernard Gutman is behind this event at Bascule. Here are some details taken from his blog: Greetings from the foot of Africa, where we are eagerly awaiting the World Whisky Day celebrations. The Bascule Whisky Bar at the Cape Grace Hotel together with Waterfront Whisky are hosting an evening of whisky, traditional South [...]

They came in their thousands, lured by the siren song of the spirit. And by the end of each evening they too were in high spirits! Here’s a look back at Whisky Live 2011. South Africa’s whisky drinkers are worth £169 million (R1.8 billion) to the Scottish whisky industry according to figures released by the [...]
Dec 14 2011 | Posted in
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Laws of consumption: Newton’s third law of motion holds that “for every force or action there must be an equal or opposite force or reaction”. So when lifting a glass of golden amber Scottish or Irish nectar to one’s lips, it therefore follows that having gone up, balance must be maintained by it slipping down [...]
Oct 27 2011 | Posted in
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