Chile launches offensive. After UNESCO, through the Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Memory of the World Program, made official the registration in its regional registry of the Peruvian manuscripts of 1587 and 1613 that document the production and marketing of grape brandy in Peruthe southern country is not willing to accept the Peruvian nature of pisco.
The Association of Pisco Chile Producers has proposed to move forward quickly with the application file as wine landscape heritage before UNESCO for the Elqui, Limari and Choapa Valleys in the Coquimbo region, in Chile, areas of high production of the grape distillate. , which that country calls “Chilean pisco.”
Unlike Peru, where the head of the General Archive of the Nation, Nicolás Díaz Sánchez, was the only government representative who highlighted UNESCO’s decision, stating that “it is news to celebrate”, in Chile, the Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela, confirmed his support for such a project, insisting that his liquor is pisco.
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“They have asked us to apply in 2025, to speed up the pace so that they can recognize the extraordinary pisco farming landscape, a wonderful place, this is an industry of almost 10,000 hectares, with many cooperatives, small pisco farmers, a lot of role and historical participation of women in its construction (…) we are going to recognize this extraordinary landscape with the collaboration of all the ministries and that it be recognized internationally. It will be carried out no later than the first week of February,” said Valenzuela.
According to the portal of the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture, regarding the Chilean initiative, the president of the Association of Pisco Producers AG Pisco Chile, Francisco Munizaga Muñoz, stated: “It is much more than documents and much more than a photo, this is presented As an intangible heritage, it is the culture behind pisco, it is obviously the area, but there are also the productive activities, the trades, the knowledge, basically the culture behind this industry.”
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The former head of the General Archive of the Nation of Peru, Ricardo A. Moreau Heredia, stated that producers, exporters, academia, civil society and committed citizens look with astonishment at the inaction of the Ministry of Culture.
He highlighted that the Peruvian minister of the sector, Fabrizio Valencia, received on August 30 of this year from the producers of the five pisco regions the file with the proposal to declare “the artisanal process for the production” as cultural heritage of the nation. of pisco” and the subsequent recognition of wineries and vineyards for the traditional production of pisco, but to date there has been no significant progress.
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