For the first time, Chilean household purchases and supermarket sales of rum have surpassed those of pisco, according to Nielsen Chile data. Not only has pisco been knocked from the top spot ...

While cruising in South America, I was reintroduced not only to the Pisco Sour cocktail, but also to the history and debate between the two countries as to which gets to claim authenticity.

Pisco is a brandy made in the winemaking regions of Chile and Peru. But don't try to determine who invented it first: both countries have a longstanding rivalry about who gets to call this grape ...

Nonetheless, Chileans distilleries will not be deprived the right to export the liquor by the name pisco, a word which signifies “bird” in the Quechan language. The assertion on the Peruvian ...