If you follow the cocktail scene, female mixologist names like Julie Reiner, Lynnette Marrero and Pamela Wiznitzer are household names. Behind the bars are countless other women ~ those behind the ...

Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear ...

The Pisco Sour is a cocktail with two homes: one in Chile and one in Peru. Both countries lay claim to the cocktail, which is said to have been invented in the 1920s. What we do know is that it's a ...

Reporting from Ica, Peru — For decades the world market for pisco has been controlled by a handful of plus-size distillers in Valle de Elquí in the Chilean desert southeast of La Serena. Each is ...

This Sept. 23, 2013 photo shows the Judgement Day cocktail in Concord, N.H. Pisco is a grape spirit that has not been aged in wood, leaving it white. Made in Peru and Chile, both countries claim it as ...