I’ve always had an attachment to pisco since my father always drank it. Here, he talks to 7x7 about his love affair with spirit. Pisco Porton, a fruity mosto verde pisco, is what he calls the "most sublime" of all piscos (with notes of mango, tangerine, green apple, pineapple and orange blossom). Johnny Schuler, the world's leading pisco authority and master distiller of Pisco Porton, hopes to bring pisco back to the forefront of the American consciousness. "We were punished and punished, until finally we're able to share this wonderful, wonderful spirit with you guys in the States," says Schuler.
Owner Duncan Nicol invented the super-potent pisco punch - a cocktail made famous by Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling that you can now have your fill of at modern watering holes like Hog & Rocks and Pisco Latin Lounge. Since those days, the pisco distilleries in Peru and Chile were ravaged by wars, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and the wrath of El Niño, and the spirit's exposure in the states waned as a result. Ground zero for pisco imbibing was the now-defunct Bank Exchange bar, which stood right where the Transamerica Building is today. Pisco was immensely popular in San Francisco during the Gold Rush and into the pre-Prohibition 20th century (especially among the newly-rich gold diggers and sailors) because it was easier to ship pisco from Peru than it was to transport whiskey from the East Coast.
Pisco, the Peruvian (and sometimes Chilean) spirit best known for putting the zip in pisco sours, has a rich history in San Francisco.
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