Pisco recipes: How to drink the South American clear grape brandy.

Pisco recipes: How to drink the South American clear grape brandy.: "Pisco, a clear grape brandy from the stills of South America, is the fastest-growing liquor in the booze biz, and I'll bet you a round of dry Capitáns that cocktail historians will record this as the season of its breakthrough among norteamericanos. Going into the summer drinking term, it demonstrated considerable momentum, with the Peruvian Association of Exporters boasting that in the first four months of 2011, U.S. sales increased by 210 percent year on year, to about $750,000. Granted, there are individual persons who spent a comparable amount of money on bottle-service Grey Goose over the same span of time, but listen to the culture—the dispatches filed from Seattle and West Hollywood and Queens—and look at the aggressiveness of these pisco salesmen. This could be the most determined marketing assault on America's liquor cabinets since the period, just after World War II, when Smirnoff hitched its wagon to the Moscow Mule.

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