The first impression is that it's very yachtish, the Bascule Whisky and Wine Bar. Not, mind you, one of those little things you see at the Royal Cape nowadays, but one of those huge posh jobs moored off Cap Ferrat at the height of the Jazz Age, a vessel on which you would have expected to find F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald spoiling the party with another of their drunken fights.It's the "below decks" impression you get descending the narrow, steeply pitched stairs into this beautifully appointed bar and the nautical touches like portholes.Then you notice the bar. Or more specifically, the staggering array of whiskies behind the bar. Here are more than 520 from around the world.It is a whisky drinker's paradise - the home of a private whisky club. Members store their bottles in private cabinets, partake in exclusive tastings (conducted in a leather-and-library sort of gentleman's club-styled private room, a sanctus sanctorum around the corner, through an impressive wine cellar) and receive a personalised crystal tumbler when they sign up.However, we are not joiners, our family. So it's straight to the bar, and a couple of glasses of wine later (great selection as well, by the way), we're messing about with the whisky menu.There's a 50-year-old Glenfiddich for R18000 a tot, which is madness. But the barman breezily tells us the bar has already klapped one bottle and is on to its second. So, there really are mad people with deep pockets.At the other end of the scale (and not on the menu), the Hankey Bannister 12-year-old was quite pleasant. Was the difference between the two really worth R17965? Alas, I'll never know.Cape Grace, West Quay Road, V&A Waterfront, 021-410-7082, 10am to 2am..