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Wiktionary
n. A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
Wikipedia
Pisco is a colorless or yellowish-to-amber colored brandy produced in winemaking regions of Peru and Chile. Made by distilling grape wine into a high-proof spirit, it was developed by 16th century Spanish settlers as an alternative to orujo, a pomace brandy that was being imported from Spain. It had the advantages of being produced from abundant domestically grown fruit and reducing the volume of alcoholic beverages transported to remote locations.
Annual pisco production in 2013 reached 30 million litres in Chile and 9.5 million litres in Peru.
- redirect Pisco, Peru
Pisco is a grape brandy produced in Peru and Chile.
Pisco or PISCO may also refer to:
- Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, is a research organization that specializes in the dynamics of the coastal ocean ecosystems
- Peace International School, Ghana
Pisco is a mountain in Peru, located in the Cordillera Blanca about 60 km north of Huaraz. It was first climbed on July 12, 1951 by C. Kogan, G. Kogan, R.Leininger and M. Lenoir.
Previously, this mountain was popular for its easy climb. However, the primary climbing route has melted significantly. As a result, this mountain is no longer the easy climb it once was and depending on the season Pisco has a large ice wall with a 50-60 metre climb up a 60 degree slope. It is now rated as PD on the French Alpine scale. It is predicted that this mountain will get more difficult as the glacier continues to recede.
There are a multitude of companies in Huaraz offering guided climbs of the mountain, which usually include all equipment, food, transport, guide, and possibly a porter. The normal route is from the road to the south, up to the col to the west, then to the summit. There are two or three camps on the mountain and one at its base, although climbers often only use one. The first is next to the road and river on the valley floor, known as Cebollapampa. The second is in or next to Refugio Perú ( at 4,765 m). The third, called the 'moraine camp' lies just below the ice of the first glacier. It is also possible to set up a camp in the col right on the glacier, as there is a convenient flat part. Some parties travel from Huaraz and climb to the moraine camp in one day, then summit and return to Huaraz the next.
Climbing involves mostly walking on snow slopes up to 35 degrees, but there is one section of about 100m of steep ice. Views from the mountain are superb, encompassing many of the other well known mountains of the Cordillera Blanca, such as Huascarán, Chopicalqui, Artesonraju, and Alpamayo.
The altitude makes the climb very difficult for anyone not well acclimatised or fit, and even those who are will be slowed down. Sleeping at the two high camps is also difficult. Possible sleeping in the third camp on the ice requires proper equipment.
Usage examples of "pisco".
Club T-shirt for a fresh one in solid violet, splash on some Jungle Desire cologne, and dilute the pisco aftertaste with a gargle of mouthwash than he was out the door.
There also were three bottles of pisco, and as Switters looked from the booze to Inti and back again, a dark puff of worry scudded his inner sky.
Inti and his crew, who, following dinner, took a bottle of pisco, threadbare blankets, and the banana-splattered mosquito netting and disappeared into the bush.
Inti and the boys returned from the bush with their second empty pisco bottle and facefuls of sheepish expression, Switters held out his hand.
The pisco sours arrived quickly, milky white and frothy in tall slim champagne glasses.
Harry soon joined him, bringing a couple of glasses and a bottle of Inca Pisco brandy, imported all the way from Earth.
It was now 8:15 and they were sipping Pisco sours, the popular Peruvian cocktail, piquant and delicious.
She could only hope that her chances were better with her new captor than with Pisco and Punch.
Boyton dispatched an officer to Don Nicholas with a request to be sent with his torpedo crew down to Pisco where he expected the Chileans would attempt to laud troops.
If Paul had followed his own instincts, he could have knocked two or three Chilean vessels out of the water, for they landed at Pisco a few days later and no very sharp lookout being kept, he might have put torpedoes under them at night.
The Chileans had advanced beyond Pisco and the first battle near Lima, on the plains outside of Chorrillos, was imminent.
Leora was drinking a pisco sour, a thing she had always wanted to try, on the terrace at Vina Del Mar near Valparaiso when the scream came.
Switters since his digestive tract found arrack as combustible as pisco and since sobriety could be a useful ally in a hasty getaway.
You can tell me all about it over some pisco sours, and Snake can pencil me in for his next field trip.
Cahuella and I finished a few drops of pisco, then reviewed our plan for the ambush, even though we had already been through it dozens of times and there was nothing we had left uncovered.