From the Editor
It is always instructive to place matters in their historial perspective, and this is as true for whisky as for other matters. The whisky trade has always been good at reinventing or forgetting its ...
August 1999, Issue 5, page 5

Obsession
Whisky is for sniffing, drinking and dabbing your ears, Michael Jackson explains, Calvin Klein would understand.
August 1999, Issue 5, page 7

An illusion of quality
Even Jim Murray can be fooled into thinking a whisky is better than it is
August 1999, Issue 5, page 8

Trainspotting (Palace on Wheels)
India's luxury train the Palace on Wheels, has a bar that's open all day, every day, and whiskies that bill themselves as 'Horsepower for real men.' Kevin Pilley had a ticket to ride.
August 1999, Issue 5, page 10

The several lives of Tobermory
Tobermory distillery has made whisky for only 14 of the last 69 years- and its incarnations have included a blend and a vatted malt. Tom Bruce-Gardyne mulls over it.
August 1999, Issue 5, page 24

The gentle art of mixing
Jonathon Goodall investigates whisky cocktails and finds a way of using up these unwanted dregs of single malt.
August 1999, Issue 5, page 32

Is this a tortilla chip I see before me?
Brian Hennigan reports groundbreaking research into one of the vital questions of life.
August 1999, Issue 5, page 35

The elements of style part 3
Part three maturation In the third and final part of his series on what influences the flavour of malt whisky, Professor Alan Ruthrford turns his attention to the ageing process.
August 1999, Issue 5, page 36

The go between
Angela Muir MW goes in search of those most elusive of creatures, whisky brokers, and finds them constantly slipping fron her grasp
August 1999, Issue 5, page 40

Fast fish
We sent chef Christian Delteil some whisky, and he invented some recipes for us. That took all of 20 minutes. Coooking them, says Margaret Rand, toook only slightly longer
August 1999, Issue 5, page 44

The start of a habit
Does Ardbeg go best with a Bolivar? And what might happen if youbegan a corona gigantes before dinner? Chris Orr provides a whisky lovers' guide to a good smoke
August 1999, Issue 5, page 52

The refashioning of history
Charles Maclean examines the curious story of Clan Campbell and its acquired pedigree
August 1999, Issue 5, page 56

Men behaving well (Jack and Wallace Milroy)
Joanna Simon meets Jack and Wallace Milroy, single malt whisky pioneers, and finds them refusing ot live up to their reputations
August 1999, Issue 5, page 60

Killing two birds with one stone.
How do you support rugby and introduce two million Chinese to the phrase 'Famous Grouse' at the same time? Richard Bath explains.
August 1999, Issue 5, page 64

Sugar and spice and all things nice
In the final part of his nosing course, Charles Maclean suggests that classifying malts by region has little meaning classification by flavour is more useful: but how on earth do you do it?
August 1999, Issue 5, page 66

Glenweevil an everyday story of distilling folk 5
The story so far: Kevin accidentally stole a lorryload of Glenweenvil, and had to hide it at the distillery. The stolen whisky was passed off by Ruth as a newly-discovered stash of pre-war Glenweevil....
August 1999, Issue 5, page 82