Category: pisco
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A Visit to La Caravedo, Home of Pisco Porton, in Ica, Peru
Hacienda La Caravedo is the oldest working distillery in the Americas and the place where they make Pisco Porton. It's located in Ica, Peru, about a four hour drive south of Lima. I visited in the spring of 2014. The distillery dates to 1684. Below is a picture of the document establishing the distillery. The…
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A South American Sazerac
Over at FineCooking.com, I posted the recipe for the Sazeru, a version of the Sazerac made with Pisco (from Peru, get it?). I actually made the drink as part of the final exam for the five-day B.A.R. course I took a couple of years ago. We had to create a cocktail with just four ingredients,…
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Styles of Pisco: A Mystery Solved
Depending on where you look online, you'll find that there are either three or four categories of Peruvian pisco.This is confusing if you want to write about it. The Problem Some sites say that there are four types: Puro, Aromatico, Mosto Verde, and Acholado. Others say three: Puro (which includes the four aromatic varietals of…
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Latin, Packing, Pisco: A Few Articles I’ve Written Lately
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I've had several stories come out recently, so I thought I'd share them here. This blog is also my resume, after all. Friday I wrote about my recent piece in the daily email Tasting Table San Francisco. This one is about Encanto Pisco, brought to us by a bartender, a sommelier, and a distiller. Attention…
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The Perudriver: A Cocktail with Pisco, Orange Juice, and Orange Liqueur
I was trying to create a cocktail for my seminar at Tales of the Cocktail using an orange liqueur, a sponsor of my session. After attempts at an Orange Negroni and Orange Absinthe Frappe that both failed, I came up with this way-too-simple and drinkable-as-heck cocktail, perfect for summer days and morning cocktailing. I…
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New History on the Pisco Sour
Pisco historian Guillermo Toro-Lira discovers new truths and falsehoods about the history of the Pisco Sour.
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Camper Meets the Clampers
Though we like to think the interest in classic cocktails is a recent one, the members of E Clampus Vitus have been celebrating drink history since the year 5937. That date – 1932 in our years – corresponds with the rebirth of an organization commonly called ECV, or the Clampers, whose motto, Credo Quia Absurdum,…
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A Vintage Pisco Punch Story
I was stumbling through the internet the other day and came acrross this vintage story on Pisco Punch, written by Lucius Beebe and published in Gourmet Magazine in 1957. Some choice quotes: Once in the hands of Duncan Nicol it was translated, as by consecration in the name of a divinity more benevolent than all…