[meteorite-list] Steve's Imilac Trip, slightly off-topic: pisco

[Bill]

Just off the top, no google involved, I vaguely remember something  about fortification. I'll have another snifter and get back to you.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: radio_ranch at yahoo.com
> Sent: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:23:17 -0800 (PST)
> To: markf at ssl.gb.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Steve's Imilac Trip, slightly off-topic:
> pisco
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Distilled fermented grape juice is the definition of
> brandy as far as I know.....
> 
> Pat
> --- mark ford <markf at ssl.gb.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sounds just like it's 'distilled fermented grape
>> juice' to me - so,
>> presumably Schnapps / moonshine is probably a close
>> equivalent?
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]
>> On Behalf Of
>> Sterling K. Webb
>> Sent: 27 February 2007 01:19
>> To: Steve Schoner; ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com
>> Cc: schoner at mybluelight.com;
>> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Steve's Imilac Trip,
>> slightly off-topic:
>> pisco
>> 
>> Hi, All Pisco Fans,
>> 
>>     For those who cannot find Pisco at their
>> corner store, or who never get to travel to the
>> High Desert but are stuck in the Great Bottoms,
>> there is the Internet Safari to the PiscoMall:
>> http://www.piscomall.com/
>>     They sell 50 different kinds of Pisco.
>> 
>> 
>> Sterling K. Webb
>> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Schoner" <schoner at mybluelight.com>
>> To: <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
>> Cc: <schoner at mybluelight.com>;
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Steve's Imilac Trip,
>> slightly off-topic:
>> pisco
>> 
>> 
>> Rob,
>> 
>> I'll check it out.  In '96 there was no supplier
>> anywhere that I could
>> find.  I suppose that things have changed since.
>> 
>> But I have never seen it anywhere here in Flagstaff.
>>  Guess none have
>> the taste for it.
>> 
>> Steve.
>> 
>> -- "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
>> wrote:
>> Hi Steve and List,
>> 
>> Regarding Peruvian pisco, Steve wrote:
>> 
>>> I can say this, Pisco is great at altitude.  I did
>> not have a hangover
>>> the next day at all, neither did Marvin or Hurley.
>>  I bought two
>>> bottles on the way back and have yet to find it
>> here in the US. ...
>> 
>>> P.S. Any liquor importers out there: Re-name
>> "Pisco" to "METEOR" with
>>> a nice landscape logo with a meteor streaking
>> downward. I bet it would
>>> then find a market here in the U.S.-- Especially
>> with "high" altitude
>>> meteorite hunters.
>> 
>> Pisco is actually fairly easy to get in the U.S.  I
>> noticed a while back
>> that one of my favorite local wine shops (Hi Time
>> Wine Cellars in Costa
>> Mesa, CA) carries about a half-dozen varities of
>> Pisco:
>> 
>> 
> <http://www.hitimewine.net/istar.asp?a=3&dept=01&class=02&subclass=03>
>> 
>> Perhaps you have a local specialty wine store that
>> offers it.  Or you
>> may even be able to buy it online at the above link.
>>  Since Pisco is
>> made from grapes (obviously highly distilled), it is
>> often categorized
>> with brandy (though sometimes with tequila).  --Rob
>> 
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