Pisco is Peru. Pisco was born along the shores of the Pacific Ocean, in the green oases of Peru's central and southern coastal band where the right temperatures of protective sunshine combine with ...

Pisco is the national spirit of Peru. Historically an unaged, clear grape brandy, it was first produced about 400 years ago in the Ica Valley south of Lima. That makes it the oldest grape-based ...

Vet D.C. mixologist Glendon Hartley is so obsessed with Peruvian pisco that he carts the spirit around in his “pisco mobile,” a gunmetal Volkswagen Tiguan that sports a license plate with one word: ...

Lovers of Peruvian Pisco Sours have reason to celebrate the country's cocktail on February 7: World Pisco Sour Day. By way of background since many people in the U.S. are not familiar with the brandy ...

Both countries claim to be the birthplace of the popular spirit. Oct. 3, 2013— -- A centuries-old spirit from South America is experiencing a renaissance in bars across America, reviving with it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Photo: Alex Lepe ; Food Stylist: Rachel Perlmutter Credit: Photo: Alex Lepe ; Food Stylist: Rachel Perlmutter Although it ...

It’s not every day that the new and exciting thing on the market also happens to be 400 years old, but that’s just the case with pisco. A white spirit distilled from grapes, pisco has been made in its ...

NINETEENTH CENTURY San Franciscans became so enamored of pisco that various cocktails and watering holes were dedicated to the stuff. I recently returned from Peru, where I was researching a number of ...

Chile and Peru used to be friends. Both stretched along the western coastal edge of South America. Chile even helped its northern neighbor win independence from Spain’s monarchy in the early 1800s.