This cocktail takes its roots in San Francisco during the gold rush era, in a then-reknown bar known as "The Bar Exchange Saloon", owned by an extrentric character who went by the name of Duncan Nicol.

Mr Nicol was an amateur of fine liquor and Pisco didn't escape his attention. He is credited with the invention of the Pisco Punch, a drink that quickly became the frenzy of the whole city.

Writers, travellers, and fortune seekers soon pushed the doors of the saloon to get their hands on his new creation. Among its most notable admirers were Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, who famously described the drink as being made from "the shavings of cherub's wings, the glory of a tropical dawn, and fragments of lost epics."

Mr Nicol always kept his recipe secret. When he passed away, the original formula dissapeared with him. What remains today are fragments of the legendary punch, but we can never ascertain that we're drinking the exact recipe Mr Nicol intended for...