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 ...

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 ...