Pisco Punch

Add all the ingredients to a shaker filled with ice.

Shake well and sift into a wine glass with ice.

Garnish with pineapple chunks and a cocktail cherry.

The cocktail was invented at the end of the nineteenth century by the owner of the 'Bank Exchange' bar in San Francisco, Duncan Nickel. The punch was so strong that one writer of that time wrote 'it tastes like lemonade, but hits like a bull.'

Pisco punch became widely known primarily thanks to notes of travelers, in particular Mark Twain and Harold Ross. Rudyard Kipling immortalized this cocktail in the centuries, describing it in his travel sketches 'From Sea to Sea' - 'According to my theory, it is brewed from the feathers of cherubim wings, the splendor of the tropical sunrise, the reddening clouds of sunset and fragments of forgotten epics of dead poets'.