What is Pisco?

Pisco is a high quality alcoholic fruit juice product originating from the distilled fermented grape juice from selected grapes grown in the traditional rich wine growing peruvian area of the Ica Valley,. Pisco is distilled using freshly fermented grape juice instead of aged wine.
Like some Scotch whiskies, the process is only carried out in copper pot stills. Unlike most vodkas, it is not distilled in continuous stills. Pisco is never actually diluted after it is distilled and enters directly at its bottling strength.

A Peruvian Pisco peculiarity is that the first part of the distillation (called the heads) is kept, and then mixed in with the rest of the distillate. Re-adding the heads ads in more character to the variety of Pisco and this is the way that the Peruvians traditionally liked it