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F. PAUL PACULT is the founding editor and publisher of the newsletter F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal – The Quarterly Independent Guide to Distilled Spirits, Beers, and Wines, now in its fifteenth year of publication. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon, from Wiley, as well as Kindred Spirits and The Beer Essentials. He is the wine and spirits columnist for Sky, the Delta Air Lines in-flight magazine; a contributing editor and the spirits tasting director for Wine Enthusiast magazine; a contributor to CARGO; a special projects editor for the New York Times Magazine; and the judging director at the annual San Francisco World Spirits Competition. He is also honored to be the only journalist worldwide to be a member of The Bourbon Hall of Fame, a member of the Armagnac Company of Musketeers, and a life member of The Keepers of the Quaich Scotch Whisky Society. Paul lives in Wallkill, New York.

Foreword by Patrick Ricard.

Preface: Sparks and Bonfires in Whiskyland.

Acknowledgments.

PART ONE: RASCALLY LIQUOR.

Prologue: The Guid Auld Drink.

1. AMagic of Locality.

2. Reaching the Boiling Point.

3. George Smith, Glenlivet, and Ancient Liberties.

4. The Great Era of Smuggling.

5. The Glenlivet.

6. Timely Passages.

7. Smoking Guns and Castles Three.

8. From On-the-Job Terror to Purveyor to Her Majesty.

9. Panicked Grouse and the End of a Defining Era.

PART TWO: THE SONS.

10. A Father’s Dreams.

11. The Chivas Brothers Company.

12. Such a Character as the Late Mr. Smith.

13. The Magic Words: Chivas Regal.

14. The Gallant Major’s Whisky, O!

PART THREE: THE BARONS.

15. A Spirit of No Common Rate.

16. Young Men of Conspicuous Gallantry.

17. Mr. Sam and Scotland’s Prince of Whiskies.

18. Drams of America.

19. Mr. Sam’s Historic Scotch Whisky Gambit.

20. The Joining of Two Scotch Whisky Giants.

Epilogue: The World of Opportunities.

Appendix A: Whisky Talk.

Appendix B: Personal Tasting Evaluations.

Bibliography.

Index.

“…this book, like the whisky, never palls…one for the fans...” (Scots Magazine, November 2005)

“…an intriguing history lesson from the point of view of the wee dram…an informed and intelligent read.” (MBA Business, Summer 2005)