Friday, December 20, 2024

Review: Pisco Portón

July 24, 2012 by  
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Pisco Portón is a “mosto verde”, so the grapes used are distilled before fermentation is complete, which brings out a more rustic character in the spirit.

Review: Pisco Oro Quebranta

July 20, 2012 by  
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Pisco Oro makes a large family of pisco varietals, with their quebranta puro pisco being a very good expression of the complex flavors and fire from this single-grape spirit.

Review: Piscología Pisco Acholado

April 6, 2012 by  
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Piscología Pisco Achlado is a small batch acholado pisco, blending quebranta, torontel, and italia grapes, and makes a very nice pisco sour.

Macchu Pisco

March 4, 2011 by  
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Macchu Pisco is handmade, although the grapes are stomped by foot, and it’s produced in a traditional copper pot still in the Ica Valley of Peru.

Encanto Pisco

January 21, 2011 by  
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Pisco is a fairly old, primitive, and frankly vibrant and muscular spirit. In the case of Encanto it is also hand-bottled in the Ica Valley of Peru.