A Chunk of Chile with a Dash of South America

Living and travelling in South America from our base in Chile since 1997. I have personally experienced the extremes here, living in a shed without a bathroom in a poor dangerous part of town to the other extreme of having an elegant dinner with the President at the palace. This blog is about things that I have done or that have caught my attention here as well as travel information that may be useful.

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Happy Pisco Day!

Happy Pisco Day!

The 15th of May is officially the Día Nacional del Pisco or National Day of Pisco in Chile!

Check out this article (in Spanish) on the Government of Chile website stating how President Bachelet signed the decree today.

Why did they choose this date? Well on this same date in 1931, Ex President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo decreed law N° 181, in which the production of Pisco was limited to the then provinces of Atacama and Coquimbo in order to protect the denomination of origin of Pisco. Of course the bragging rights to the origin of Pisco are still heavily disputed between Chile and Peru.

If you don’t know what Pisco is yet, check out: Chilean Pisco

I'll drink to that!

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posted by Woodward @ 11:37 PM

3 Comments:

At Wed Jul 15, 01:59:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

PISCO IS AND ALWAYS BE PERUVIAN. THE RECEPY WAS STOLED BY CHILENIAN DURING 1800 WAR.

 
At Fri Jul 31, 12:41:00 PM, Blogger Jo Castillo said...

I discovered them in Bolivia. :) I will put this on the calendar so we can drink one next May. Thanks, cheers! Salud!

 
At Mon Aug 03, 09:54:00 PM, Blogger Woodward said...

Bolivia? That's interesting. Did they have their own Pisco or did they use Peruvian (more likely) or Chilean Pisco?
And yes, only 317 days until then, not that I'm counting, honest!

 

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