The pisco is a genuinely Peruvian drink, result of the adaptation of the stump brought by the Spaniards to those conquered lands, this on top of the knowledge in the cultivation gave to the recently developed liquor very Peculiar characteristics..
The name of the Pisco.
Pisco is a word coming from the Quechua that means bird and it figures in the religious columnists arrived with the first conquerors. This way Lion Cieza in its general chronicle of Peru in 1550 wrote Pisco, is name of birds, the word pisco also forms part of a great number of towns districts and Peruvian villages, as Piscohuasi (house of birds) in Ancash, Piscotuna (fruit of birds) in Ayacucho, Piscopampa (panpas of birds in Arequipa), Piscobanba (plain of birds) in Arequipa among others. In the same way in the Quechua language, Pisco us present in alst names with Peruvian origins as Pisconte, Piscoya, Piscocolla, etc.
According to Fernando Lecaros, he describes that when the Spaniards sown in a vast extension of vineyards they used many Indians in the production of small tinajas that were good to conserve, sell and to transport the grape liquors recently produced, that liquor was named Pisco.
The Pisco has an unquestionably Peruvian origin just as the lexicographers, columnists and historians have verified trough the studies they carried out. It is a prehispanic word (Quechua) that means bird or fowl )Aroma Juan, alias of Pedro Paz Soldan and Unanue. Dictionary of Peruvianisms, volume II, peisa edition, 1975, it page 323).
They were in fact the Incas who admired by the enormous quantity and diversity of birds that they could observe along this coast (located approximately to 200 km south Lima, used the word Quechua Pisko to named that valley which was the same were the famous Paracas culture developed.
In the same region a community of Indians called piskos existed, which were excellent ceramists and who produced earthen round short necked jugs (called Pisco by local people) with an interior coating of beewax used store alcoholic beverages and liquors, subsequently when the Spaniards brought the grapes to stored the liquor they produced naming it by the name of the jugs.
The name of the Pisco.
Pisco is a word coming from the Quechua that means bird and it figures in the religious columnists arrived with the first conquerors. This way Lion Cieza in its general chronicle of Peru in 1550 wrote Pisco, is name of birds, the word pisco also forms part of a great number of towns districts and Peruvian villages, as Piscohuasi (house of birds) in Ancash, Piscotuna (fruit of birds) in Ayacucho, Piscopampa (panpas of birds in Arequipa), Piscobanba (plain of birds) in Arequipa among others. In the same way in the Quechua language, Pisco us present in alst names with Peruvian origins as Pisconte, Piscoya, Piscocolla, etc.
According to Fernando Lecaros, he describes that when the Spaniards sown in a vast extension of vineyards they used many Indians in the production of small tinajas that were good to conserve, sell and to transport the grape liquors recently produced, that liquor was named Pisco.
The Pisco has an unquestionably Peruvian origin just as the lexicographers, columnists and historians have verified trough the studies they carried out. It is a prehispanic word (Quechua) that means bird or fowl )Aroma Juan, alias of Pedro Paz Soldan and Unanue. Dictionary of Peruvianisms, volume II, peisa edition, 1975, it page 323).
They were in fact the Incas who admired by the enormous quantity and diversity of birds that they could observe along this coast (located approximately to 200 km south Lima, used the word Quechua Pisko to named that valley which was the same were the famous Paracas culture developed.
In the same region a community of Indians called piskos existed, which were excellent ceramists and who produced earthen round short necked jugs (called Pisco by local people) with an interior coating of beewax used store alcoholic beverages and liquors, subsequently when the Spaniards brought the grapes to stored the liquor they produced naming it by the name of the jugs.
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