Is Pisco Peruvian or Chilean?
According to experts, Chilean Pisco can not be compared with the Peruvian one. The former is sweeter and lighter and this is mainly because the producers add water in order to reduce the proof of alcohol of this ancient eau-de-vie. The authentic Peruvian Pisco has a higher proof of alcohol and it is made of Quebranta grape. You can not find this kind of grape in the neighboring southern country. In fact, Peru has the appropriate soil, weather as well as the tradition to make Pisco become an incomparable and special beverage. All this gives us the right to call it Pisco. Unfortunately, the Agrarian Reform of the 70 s, the farming economical problems and the hyperinflation of the 80 s as well as the irrigation water pollution and the growing of other more profitable products than grapes, affected Pisco production in Peru. Nowadays, there are only 800 hundred producers of this liquor in the province of Pisco, according to figures provided by the Commission of Exporting Promotion ( Prompex
