Pisco Sour
Origin
Victor Vaughen Morris · Morris' Bar, Lima · 1920
American expatriate Morris created the drink as a pisco riff on the whiskey sour in the early 1920s; later refined with egg white and Angostura by his bartender Mario Bruiget. Some sources place creation as early as 1915. Chile contests Peruvian origin claims.
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