The Tasting Room

The Tasting Room

Good news is that we’ve re-opened the Tasting Room! We’ve changed things up this time though and now offer gin tastings, spirits tastings, gin & tonics, classic cocktails and more. It’s open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons, so pop in...
KNUT HANSEN GIN

KNUT HANSEN GIN

The story of Knut Hansen Gin is one of these fun collaborative projects: we met Kasper, a gin lover from Germany a few years ago, back when he had a dream to launch a gin brand. About a year later he visited us in SA again and had brought his dream to life: he had...
SOUTH AFRICA IN LOCKDOWN AGAIN

SOUTH AFRICA IN LOCKDOWN AGAIN

We watched the rest of the world having second waves and thought / hoped that SA’s 2nd wave would be delayed by the sunshine and warm weather. Sadly that didn’t prove to be the case and instead we were faced with rising numbers, a new strain and struggling hospitals....
Hope around the world

Hope around the world

We often get asked if we export our gins. Although export is a very tiny part of what we do, we do send our gin to several countries around the world. Up until 2020 we have exported our “heritage” label collection … just while the rebrand settled in here, but we have...
GIN IN THE TIME OF CORONA

GIN IN THE TIME OF CORONA

We took the decision to close the Tasting Room prior to the lockdown, as we receive a large number of tourists and other visitors and thought it safer to protect our staff and our production facility and act cautiously and instead designed “Home Tasting Kits” for...
THE TASTING ROOM

THE TASTING ROOM

The latest edition of The Cultured Traveller has a great feature on Cape Town. The port city of Cape Town has always been an entertaining, edgy and happening place to visit. Its spectacular location, in the shadow of larger-than-life Table Mountain at the northern end...