22/07/2025
🇵🇪The national drink was declared a National Cultural Heritage in 2007.
Pisco Sour,🍸 our signature Peruvian drink, declared 🍸a National Cultural Heritage Site in 2007 by the then National Institute of Culture (INC), celebrates its day this first Saturday in February. According to Ministry of Culture researcher César Coloma, our acclaimed pisco sour was created in Lima at the beginning of the 20th century by Anglo-Saxon immigrant Víctor V. Morris, owner of Bar Morris, located at 847 Boza Street, on Jirón de la Unión. It was in an advertisement for this establishment in the book Lima, the City of Viceroys, by Cipriano A. Laos (Corbeil, Imprimerie Crété, 1927) where illustrative information about the Morris Bar appears.
There it is noted that this establishment imported all kinds of wines, liquors and beers and that, in addition, "it has become famous for the exquisite preparation of its 'pisco-sour' and 'whisky-sour', etc., in which it uses genuine liquors." Later, an even older reference to this Lima cocktail was discovered, in an article entitled De lo huachafo y lo criollo (Of the huachafo and the criollo), published in the magazine Mundial No. 52, Lima, April 22, 1921.
There, the adventures of José Julián Pérez, a Lima reveler, who used to go to the well-known Anglo-Saxon immigrant's bar, and who drank "a glass whose whitish contents had been taken care of preparing one of the most popular" disciples of Mister Morris, the popular owner of the popular Bar de Boza?. Coloma points out an earlier reference to the pisco sour, dating back to 1920, when Luis Alberto Sánchez published a chapter of "La novela limeña" in the magazine Hogar, where the author tells of some characters attending a screening at the Excelsior cinema on Jirón de la Unión, and "upon leaving the cinema, the two friends silently headed down Boza Street. Juan Antonio suggested a Pisco Sour at the Morris Bar? (sic). Thus, the pisco sour will soon celebrate a century of existence, acclaimed and celebrated not only by Peruvians, but also by foreigners who have tried it in Peru and in the countries where its flavor has reached. Happy Pisco Sour Day!
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